Project Manager, Security

AHEAD; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health insurance

Flexible work arrangements

Learning and development opportunities

Retirement benefits

Inclusive and people-first culture

Job summary

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business and delivers cybersecurity engagements across identity, access, and data protection. The Project Manager coordinates teams, manages scope, budget, and risks, and ensures outcomes align with project plans and client objectives.

The role involves engaging with architects, engineers, and client stakeholders to drive high-quality results, governance, and timely delivery within security delivery lifecycles.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of project management and planning experience.
• Excellent organizational, presentation, analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Experience managing cybersecurity, IAM, or data security projects in consulting, professional services, or enterprise IT.
• Working knowledge of security delivery lifecycles, including assessment, design, implementation, testing, remediation, cutover, and transition to operations.
• Familiarity with cloud security concepts (CNAPP, CWPP, DSPM) and public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Familiarity with IAM/IGA/MFA/SSO/RBAC/SoD and data security concepts.
• Ability to manage stakeholders through security risk, compliance, and control decisions.
• Experience creating executive-ready status reporting and customer-facing documentation.
• Prefers PMP/CSM/ITIL/Security+/CISSP familiarity or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, and deliver cybersecurity engagements with core AHEAD security offerings.
• Manage scope, schedule, budget, risks, dependencies, resources, and client communications.
• Coordinate project execution across consultants, architects, engineers, and client stakeholders.
• Manage RAID logs, dependencies, change control, decision tracking, and executive reporting.
• Ensure delivery standards, documentation, and quality gates are met.
• Develop budgets and track expenses; forecast requirements and variances.
• Support governance cadences, risk reviews, and milestone updates.
• Promote process improvement and professional development.

Skills

Project management

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Risk management

Budgeting

Security awareness

Executive reporting

Education

PMP

CSM

ITIL

Security+

CISSP familiarity

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Jira

MS Project

Job description

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.

AtAHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging,where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.

We are an equal opportunity employer,anddo not discriminatebased onan individual’s race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, maritalstatus,or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.

_ We embraceall candidatesthatwillcontribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas andperspectives atAHEAD. _

The Project Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering cybersecurity engagements with a focus on core AHEAD security offerings including identity and data security. This role manages scope, schedule, budget, risks, dependencies, resources, and client communications across security assessments, implementations, migrations, remediation efforts, and managed-service transition activities. The Project Manager partners with engagement leads, architects, engineers, client stakeholders, and partner teams to deliver high-quality outcomes aligned to project plans

Responsibilities:

• Communicate project roles and responsibilities to project team members while planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing project objectives.

• Enforce policies and procedures for each project

• Achieve operational objectives by:

• Contributing information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews

• Preparing and completing action plans

• Implementing production, productivity, quality, and client-service standards

• Resolving problems

• Determining system improvements

• Implementing change

• Meet financial objectives by forecasting requirements, quoting services, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective actions.

• Support delivery of cybersecurity projects in identity, access, and data protection domains, including assessments, design, implementation, migration, remediation, and operationalization efforts.

• Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, and participating in professional organizations.

• Coordinate project execution across consultants, architects, engineers, customer stakeholders, and partner vendors to ensure delivery quality, milestone attainment, and issue resolution.

• Manage RAID logs, project dependencies, change control, decision tracking, and executive status reporting for security engagements.

• Support client governance cadences, including kickoff sessions, status meetings, risk reviews, steering updates, and acceptance/sign-off checkpoints.

• Ensure projects follow repeatable delivery standards, documentation requirements, evidence collection expectations, and quality gates.

• Partner with technical leads to align delivery plans to security controls, testing, cutover, validation, and post-implementation support needs.

• Manage multiple concurrent security engagements and shared resources across pods or workstreams while maintaining schedule and risk governance.

• Enhance departmental and organizational reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests while exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

• Develop budgets and track budget expenses.

• Provide performance management feedback for project aligned resources based on project observations.

• Support team members in a proficient and effective manner

• Promote process improvement.

• Must pursue professional self-development opportunities on a regular basis.

Requirements:

• 3-5 years of prior project management and planning experience.

• Possess excellent organizational, presentation, analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.

• Strong ability to manage expectations including in areas of scope, schedule, budget, and satisfaction.

• Able to work both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.

• Experience managing cybersecurity, IAM, or data security projects in consulting, professional services, or enterprise IT environments.

• Working knowledge of security delivery lifecycles, including assessment, design, implementation, testing, remediation, cutover, and transition to operations.

• Familiarity with Cloud security concepts including CNAPP, CWPP, and DSPM; and public cloud hypervisors including AWS, Azure, and GCP.

• Familiarity with identity security concepts such as IAM, IGA, PAM, MFA, SSO, federation, RBAC, SoD, service accounts, and secrets management.

• Familiarity with data security concepts such as data discovery, classification, labeling, DSPM, DLP, retention, insider risk, and governance.

• Ability to manage technical and business stakeholders through security risk, compliance, and control-related decisions.

• Experience creating executive-ready status reporting, action plans, issue escalations, and customer-facing documentation.

• Preferred: PMP, CSM, ITIL, Security+, CISSP familiarity, or equivalent security/project delivery credentials.

Why AHEAD:

Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.

We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.

India Employment Benefits include:

Comprehensive health insurance coverage for employees, with options to extend coverage to dependents

Paid time off and company holidays , along with additional leave benefits as per policy

Flexible work arrangements , supporting work-life balance

Learning and development opportunities to support continuous growth and upskilling

Employee wellness initiatives and programs focused on physical and mental well-being

Retirement and statutory benefits in line with India regulations

Inclusive and people-first culture , with a strong focus on collaboration and ownership