Project Manager: Security Services

AHEAD; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

401(k)

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Parental and caregiver leave

Job summary

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business and seeks a Project Manager to plan, coordinate, and deliver cybersecurity engagements across identity, data security, and access domains. You will manage scope, schedule, budget, risks, and client communications, partnering with architects, engineers, and stakeholders to achieve high-quality outcomes aligned to project plans.

The role offers growth, competitive pay ($140,000-$170,000), comprehensive benefits, and a culture focused on belonging and

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of prior project management and planning experience.
• Excellent organizational, presentation, analytical and written communication skills.
• Strong ability to manage client expectations including scope, schedule, budget and satisfaction.
• Experience managing cybersecurity, IAM, or data security projects in consulting or enterprise IT environments.
• Familiarity with Cloud security concepts (CNAPP, CWPP, DSPM) and public cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Act as engagement lead on customer engagements.
• Communicate project roles and responsibilities to project team members.
• Enforce policies and procedures for each project.
• Lead delivery of cybersecurity projects in identity, access, and data protection domains.
• Coordinate project execution across consultants, architects, engineers, stakeholders, and partner vendors.
• Manage RAID logs, dependencies, change control, and executive status reporting.
• Drive client governance cadences and ensure milestones and acceptance checkpoints.
• Pursue professional self-development opportunities.

Skills

Project management

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Security knowledge

Consulting experience

Education

PMP certification

CSM certification

ITIL

Security+

CISSP

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.

At AHEAD, 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, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.

We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.

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

• Act as engagement lead on customer engagements
• 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.
• Lead 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.
• Drive 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.
• Staff projects appropriately and supervise team members.
• Manage 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 client 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.

$140,000 - $170,000 a year

The compensation range indicated in this posting reflects the On-Target Earnings (“OTE”) for this role, which includes a base salary and any applicable target bonus amount. This OTE range may vary based on the candidate’s relevant experience, qualifications, and geographic location.

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.

USA Employment Benefits include:

• - Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• - 401(k)
• - Paid company holidays
• - Paid time off
• - Paid parental and caregiver leave
• - Plus more! See benefits https://www.aheadbenefits.com/ for additional details.

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