Strategic Risk & Resilience Engagement Lead

RapidScale; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

RapidScale is seeking a Strategy & Engagement Manager, Risk & Resilience to help shape and deliver the growing advisory capability. You will work with enterprise clients and internal experts across security, cloud, AI, compliance, and delivery to define problems and craft execution plans.

The role emphasizes a consulting mindset at the intersection of business strategy and technology, requiring leadership of client workstreams and development of repeatable methodologies to translate risk into

Qualifications

• Experience in consulting, advisory services, risk, resilience, cybersecurity, or related discipline.
• Ability to structure complex or ambiguous business problems into actionable recommendations.
• Experience leading client-facing workstreams with multiple stakeholders.
• Experience creating executive-level presentations, proposals, and scopes of work.
• Knowledge of enterprise risk, resilience, cybersecurity, AI, cloud, governance, or compliance.

Responsibilities

• Partner with clients to define and structure complex challenges related to risk, resilience, cybersecurity, AI, cloud, governance, compliance, and operational readiness.
• Lead advisory workstreams from discovery through recommendations, planning, and executive readout.
• Prepare and facilitate client workshops with CIOs, CISOs, CTOs and leaders.
• Translate business and technology risks into clear priorities, roadmaps, and actionable plans.
• Develop executive-ready presentations, assessments, recommendations, and client deliverables.
• Build trusted relationships with client stakeholders across enterprise environments.
• Develop scopes, proposals, engagement approaches, and client materials.
• Collaborate with practice leadership on pricing, scope validation, and delivery models.

Skills

Consulting

Advisory

Client engagement leadership

Executive communication

Problem structuring

Managing multiple stakeholders

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline

Job description

RapidScale is seeking a Strategy & Engagement Manager, Risk & Resilience to help shape and deliver the growing advisory capability. You will work with enterprise clients and internal experts across security, cloud, AI, compliance, and delivery to define problems and craft execution plans.

The role emphasizes a consulting mindset at the intersection of business strategy and technology, requiring leadership of client workstreams and development of repeatable methodologies to translate risk into