Remote Cybersecurity Project Lead

Humana, Inc.; Olympia (WA); Remote; USD 86,000 - 119,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana, Inc. is seeking a Cybersecurity Project Manager to lead strategic cybersecurity initiatives across domains including Identity, Threat Management, and Cloud Security.

You will translate strategy into execution, align stakeholders, and manage risks to deliver measurable security outcomes. This role requires coordinating with cybersecurity leaders, architects, engineers, product teams, and executives, and may involve remote work with occasional travel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in IT, cybersecurity, business, engineering or related field.
• 2-5 years of PM experience leading technology/cybersecurity projects.
• Experience coordinating multi-team, cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience in cybersecurity domains (Identity Security, Security Operations, Cloud Security, etc.).
• Strong planning, risk, dependency management, governance and reporting.
• Experience producing executive communications and status reports.
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders in matrixed orgs.
• Experience managing project financials, budgets, forecasts, vendor engagements.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of cybersecurity initiatives from planning through implementation and operational transition.
• Maintain integrated project plans with milestones, dependencies, risks, and decisions.
• Coordinate delivery across cybersecurity teams, technology orgs, stakeholders, vendors, and partners.
• Drive execution across domains like IAM, PAM, Security Operations, Cloud Security, Network Security, etc.
• Facilitate planning sessions, reviews, updates, governance forums, and steering meetings.
• Identify risks, constraints, dependencies, and schedule impacts; create mitigations.
• Establish project reporting with visibility into progress, risks, and outcomes.
• Develop executive-level status reports and communications.
• Align project execution with strategic objectives and capability roadmaps.
• Manage scope, goals, timeline; coordinate with portfolio management on budgets and resources.
• Drive accountability and resolve blockers; support vendor engagements and procurement.
• Ensure governance, documentation, and controls throughout lifecycle; adapt to Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid.
• Lead project teams without direct authority.

Skills

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in IT/

2-5 years PM experience

cross-functional leadership

risk management

stakeholder engagement

executive-level communications

financial management

influence stakeholders

communication and presentation

matrixed environment

ServiceNow PPM Fluent

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Business, Engineering, or a related field

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Jira Align

Job description

Humana, Inc. is seeking a Cybersecurity Project Manager to lead strategic cybersecurity initiatives across domains including Identity, Threat Management, and Cloud Security.

You will translate strategy into execution, align stakeholders, and manage risks to deliver measurable security outcomes. This role requires coordinating with cybersecurity leaders, architects, engineers, product teams, and executives, and may involve remote work with occasional travel.