Project Manager - Security Services

Thinkahead; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

AHEAD is seeking a seasoned Project Manager to lead cybersecurity engagements in identity, access, and data protection domains. You will coordinate cross‑functional teams, manage budgets and risks, and ensure delivery quality while aligning with security controls and governance.

This role emphasizes client communication and strategic planning within a consulting environment. The ideal candidate has 3–5 years of project management experience, strong stakeholder management skills, and familiarity

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of prior project management and planning experience.
• Excellent organizational, presentation, analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Strong ability to manage client expectations, including scope, schedule, budget, and satisfaction.
• Able to work independently and in a team environment.
• Experience managing cybersecurity, IAM, or data security projects in consulting or enterprise IT.

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.
• 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.

Skills

Project management

Security project delivery

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Team leadership

Education

PMP certification

ITIL familiarity

Security certifications (CISSP/Security+)

Job description

Job Overview

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.

AHEAD is an equal‑opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

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

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.
• 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.

Qualifications

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

Compensation

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‑note technologies in a multi‑million‑dollar lab, encouraging cross‑department training and development, and sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.

Benefits

• 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.

Use of AI

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, assessing responses, or to capture recordings and create transcriptions or summaries during interviews. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans.

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You may opt‑out of the review or analysis of your application and resume by AI tools by using the General Application. Please include the role you wish to apply for in the Additional Information field. You may also choose to opt‑out of recording and transcription at any time, including after joining an interview. Candidates will not be penalized for choosing to opt‑out.

Equal Opportunity

AHEAD is an equal‑opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

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