Cyber Security Program Manager: Strategic Delivery

Playlist; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 132,000; Full time

Job summary

Playlist is seeking a seasoned program manager to lead a cross-functional cyber security or IT program, shaping strategy, resourcing, and priorities across teams.

You will manage multiple complex project timelines, drive risk mitigation, and communicate with security and IT leadership, engineers, and stakeholders to align on objectives and outcomes. The role emphasizes hands-on problem solving in a dynamic tech environment in the United States.

Qualifications

• 4–6+ years in program management, client services, or management consulting at a tech company.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, cyber security, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Deep expertise in program management best practices and tools.
• Strong ability to understand architectures and discuss system design, reliability, and scalability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, able to translate complex requirements.
• Familiarity with information security frameworks (NIST, PCI-DSS, HITRUST) preferred.
• Learns quickly, works independently, owns risks with mitigation strategies.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic execution and delivery for a cross-functional Cyber Security or IT program, including influence over resourcing decisions, prioritization, and stakeholder engagement
• Manage multiple complex projects timelines, risks, and action items for multiple projects, potentially with competing timelines or resourcing needs, and elevate project issues or blockers
• Communicate and influence effectively on multiple levels (e.g., Security & IT leadership team, engineers, cross-discipline stakeholders)
• Identify creative ways to measure and track progress on your program’s initiatives and promote learning from both success and failures to a wider audience
• Design and iteratively improve templates that support programs, projects, and enterprise-wide processes
• Navigate ambiguity with a bias for action, being creative and resourceful in problem solving, and ask questions early and often when working in new or unfamiliar systems or topics
• Demonstrate deep, evolving technical fluency in core security domains (e.g., IAM, endpoint security, cloud risk, compliance frameworks) and apply it to shape program strategy, drive architectural trade-off decisions, and translate complexity for executive and cross-functional audiences, while serving as a trusted technical liaison across Engineering, Security, and business stakeholders

Skills

Program management

Security frameworks

Stakeholder communication

Technical aptitude

Independent learner

Risk mitigation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Playlist is seeking a seasoned program manager to lead a cross-functional cyber security or IT program, shaping strategy, resourcing, and priorities across teams.

You will manage multiple complex project timelines, drive risk mitigation, and communicate with security and IT leadership, engineers, and stakeholders to align on objectives and outcomes. The role emphasizes hands-on problem solving in a dynamic tech environment in the United States.