Project Manager

VDart Inc; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

VDart Inc. is seeking a Level 3 Project Manager in a hybrid role across New York, NY/ Washington, DC/ Seattle, WA to drive privacy, data mapping, and cybersecurity initiatives.

You will lead cross-functional teams, manage multi-workstream programs, and report to executives with concise dashboards in a fast-paced environment.

Strong communication and a solid technical background are essential for success in this engagement.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of project/program management experience.
• Experience in technology, cybersecurity, privacy, compliance, or risk.
• Strong technical program/project background.
• Experience managing multi-workstream initiatives.
• Comfortable working with engineers, product teams, and technical stakeholders.
• Strong organizational and communication skills.
• Experience with Google Workspace.
• Strong executive-level status reporting and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Act as the day-to-day PM for a Protiviti-led data privacy engagement.
• Manage project plans, workstream trackers, budget and hours reporting, risk logs, and weekly status updates.
• Coordinate stakeholder interviews, workshops, and documentation collection.
• Support privacy technology enablement with external advisors and internal tech teams.
• Help organize outputs into implementation roadmaps for privacy operations, DSAR, PIA maturity, and data discovery and monitoring.
• Drive cybersecurity integration action items and coordinate with cyber, engineering and product teams.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Technical understanding

Tools

Google Workspace

Microsoft 365

Job description

Role: Project Manager
Duration: 6 months extension possible
Location: New York, NY 10017/ Washington, DC - 20036 and Seattle WA - 98101 - Hybrid

Position Overview

Client is seeking a Level 3 Project Manager to support a high-visibility engagement focused on:

• Data Privacy Program support


• Data Mapping / ROPA delivery


• Cybersecurity integration


• Cross-functional compliance and stakeholder coordination

This person will work closely with TechOps, engineering, product, cybersecurity, legal, compliance, and privacy teams in a lean and fast-paced environment.

Required

• 5+ years of project/program management experience


• Experience in technology, cybersecurity, privacy, compliance, or risk


• Strong technical program/project background


• Experience managing multi-workstream initiatives


• Comfortable working with engineers, product teams, and technical stakeholders


• Strong organizational and communication skills


• Experience with Google Workspace


• Strong executive-level status reporting and stakeholder management

Preferred / Nice to Have

• Insider risk program experience


• Privacy program knowledge:
  
  
  
  • Data mapping
  
  
  • ROPA
  
  
  • DSAR
  
  
  • PIA / DPIA
  
  
  • Privacy operations
  
  
  
  


• Cybersecurity governance knowledge:
  
  
  
  • Incident response
  
  
  • Vulnerability management
  
  
  • Secure development lifecycle
  
  
  • Application security onboarding
  
  
  • Compliance gates
  
  
  
  


• Familiarity with OneTrust is a plus


• Experience working in both Google Workspace and Microsoft 365

Key Responsibilities

Privacy / Data Mapping Program

• Act as the day-to-day PM for a Protiviti-led data privacy engagement


• Manage:
  
  
  
  • Project plans
  
  
  • Workstream trackers
  
  
  • Budget and hours reporting
  
  
  • Risk logs
  
  
  • Weekly status updates
  
  
  
  


• Coordinate stakeholder interviews, workshops, and documentation collection


• Support privacy technology enablement with external advisors and internal tech teams


• Help organize outputs into implementation roadmaps for:
  
  
  
  • Privacy operations
  
  
  • DSAR
  
  
  • PIA maturity
  
  
  • Data discovery and monitoring
  
  
  
  

Cybersecurity Integration

• Drive completion of cybersecurity integration action items, including:
  
  
  
  • Application registration
  
  
  • Vulnerability Disclosure Program rollout
  
  
  • Cyber Risk Questionnaire items
  
  
  • Cyber Control Self-Attestation gates
  
  
  • AI/ML assessment intake processes
  
  
  
  


• Partner with cybersecurity, engineering, and product teams


• Support incident response coordination and tabletop exercises


• Maintain remediation and corrective action trackers


• Provide concise status updates to leadership and governance groups

Program / Stakeholder Management

• Support the Head of Compliance Privacy with consolidated action-item tracking


• Help manage vendor and procurement-related coordination:
  
  
  
  • SOW execution
  
  
  • Requisition tracking
  
  
  • Milestone invoicing
  
  
  
  


• Facilitate recurring cross-functional meetings


• Prepare executive-ready dashboards, committee materials, and risk registers


• Help improve methods, processes, and standards within scope

Team / Environment

• Heavy interaction with the TechOps team


• Lean technology and engineering organization


• Fast-paced, matrixed environment


• Need someone who can work independently and drive accountability across teams