Role overview
Support the day-to-day operation and continued development of a cybersecurity risk management program. The role coordinates assessments, remediation, governance, and reporting across technical and business teams, translating security findings into clear priorities and giving leadership a useful view of risk exposure and progress.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate and conduct risk assessments for products, infrastructure, applications, cloud services, initiatives, and third-party suppliers.
- Triage security issues and document risk statements, including business impact, likelihood, assumptions, and treatment options.
- Maintain the risk register with accurate owners, decisions, statuses, milestones, and target dates.
- Track remediation across teams, follow up with risk owners, resolve or elevate blockers, and report progress through closure.
- Prepare risk committee materials and coordinate acceptance, exception, and escalation reviews, tracking decisions and actions.
- Analyze program metrics, build dashboards, support risk quantification, and help improve assessment processes and GRC tooling.
Requirements
- At least eight years of cybersecurity risk management or GRC experience, including three or more years in program or project management.
- Experience supporting or scaling a cybersecurity risk program in a technology, SaaS, or cloud environment.
- Ability to assess technical and organizational risks, validate controls and explain findings in terms of business impact.
- Strong program coordination skills across stakeholders, timelines, dependencies, and remediation work.
- Clear written and verbal communication, including leadership reporting and facilitation of governance discussions.
- Familiarity with security and compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, FedRAMP, NIST, PCI DSS, or HIPAA.
Nice to have
- Experience with emerging regulatory requirements, risk quantification, or supplier risk programs.
- Exposure to GRC automation or AI-assisted workflows, with attention to governance and human review.