Remote IT & Security Project Lead | Jira Delivery

sportygroup; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first company

Quarterly bonuses

28 days paid annual leave

Top-tier equipment

Annual company retreats

Job summary

Sporty is seeking an experienced IT/IS Project Manager to coordinate IT and Information Security initiatives across our global organization. You will drive ownership, timelines, and measurable outcomes while working with IT, Security, Engineering, and Business teams.

This role emphasizes security delivery, vulnerability remediation, and governance across Jira environments. You will create structure, manage risks, and push initiatives through to completion in a remote-first, globally distributed

Qualifications

• 5+ years of IT/IS Project Management or similar
• Experience delivering technology or security initiatives across multiple technical teams
• Experience working with Information Security and Engineering organisations
• Strong experience with Jira-based task and backlog management
• Experience working across multiple Jira projects, workflows, or systems
• Experience producing consolidated reporting, KPIs, and trend analysis from task-level data
• Strong project management skills covering scope, priorities, timelines, risks, dependencies, and stakeholders
• Experience working with globally distributed teams
• Excellent written and spoken English

Responsibilities

• Lead internal IT initiatives from requirements and planning through implementation, rollout, and operational handover.
• Define scope, milestones, ownership, dependencies, and success criteria.
• Coordinate delivery across IT, Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and business teams.
• Proactively manage risks, blockers, priorities, and cross-team dependencies.
• Drive decisions and ensure projects progress through to completion.
• Coordinate security-related initiatives and tasks across Information Security, Engineering, Infrastructure, Platform, Red Team, and Blue Team.
• Track vulnerability findings and remediation activities through to validation and closure.
• Coordinate follow-up actions from penetration testing, Red Team/Blue Team activities, security reviews, incidents, and security improvement programmes.
• Ensure security tasks have appropriate priority, ownership, target dates, and remediation plans.
• Identify stalled or high-risk items and drive follow-up, prioritisation, and escalation where necessary.
• Maintain visibility of IT/IS work across multiple Jira systems, projects, teams, and workflows.
• Establish consolidated reporting across different Jira environments and maintain data quality and traceability.
• Monitor backlog, aging, remediation progress, overdue work, throughput, and other relevant delivery metrics.
• Analyse historical and current data to identify trends, bottlenecks, recurring issues, and deteriorating performance.
• Automate data collection, aggregation, and reporting where practical.

Skills

IT/IS Project Management

Security Project Management

Cross-functional Collaboration

Jira Backlog Management

Global/Distributed Teams

English Proficiency

Tools

Jira

AWS

Cloud Platforms

Job description

Sporty is seeking an experienced IT/IS Project Manager to coordinate IT and Information Security initiatives across our global organization. You will drive ownership, timelines, and measurable outcomes while working with IT, Security, Engineering, and Business teams.

This role emphasizes security delivery, vulnerability remediation, and governance across Jira environments. You will create structure, manage risks, and push initiatives through to completion in a remote-first, globally distributed