Strategy & Engagement Manager, Risk & Resilience (RapidScale) (Remote)

Spectrum Business; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

RapidScale is expanding its Risk & Resilience practice and seeks a Strategy & Engagement Manager to shape and deliver advisory capabilities for enterprise clients. You will define complex challenges, structure advisory solutions, lead client workstreams, and coordinate experts across security, cloud, AI, and governance to deliver practical outcomes.

Ideal candidates bring consulting experience at the intersection of business strategy, risk, technology, and transformation, and can translate

Qualifications

• Strong consulting and advisory mindset.
• Ability to translate risk and technology challenges into practical strategies.
• Experience guiding enterprise client engagements across security, cloud, governance, and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Define complex business problems and structure advisory solutions for clients.
• Lead advisory workstreams from discovery through recommendations and execution planning.
• Coordinate subject matter experts across security, cloud, AI, compliance, and delivery to achieve client outcomes.

Job description

This role requires the ability to work lawfully in the U.S. without employment-based immigration sponsorship, now or in the future.

At RapidScale, exceptional technology is powered by exceptional people. We deliver secure, reliable managed and advisory services across private, public, and hybrid clouds, helping organizations innovate, adapt, and grow. As an Elite Broadcom VMware VCSP Partner and top partner with AWS, Azure, and Google, our solutions focus on business outcomes with embedded cyber resiliency and AI to protect today and enable tomorrow backed by the strength of the Cox family of companies.

RapidScale is building a Risk & Resilience advisory practice designed to help enterprise clients navigate increasingly complex challenges across business resilience, governance, cybersecurity, cloud transformation, artificial intelligence, compliance, exposure management, and operational readiness.

We are seeking a Strategy & Engagement Manager, Risk & Resilience to help shape and deliver this growing advisory capability. This individual will work across client pursuits and engagements helping define complex business problems, structure advisory solutions, lead client workstreams, coordinate subject matter experts, and translate risk and technology challenges into practical strategies and execution plans.

This is not a traditional project management or coordination role, nor is it a purely technical cybersecurity position. The ideal candidate brings a strong consulting and advisory mindset and is comfortable operating at the intersection of business strategy, risk, technology, and transformation.

In this role, you will work directly with enterprise clients and internal experts across security, cloud, AI, compliance, and delivery while also helping build the methods, tools, and intellectual property that will support the continued growth of RapidScale's Risk & Resilience practice.

What You'll Do

Client Advisory & Engagement Leadership

• Partner with clients to define and structure complex challenges related to enterprise risk, resilience, cybersecurity, AI, cloud, governance, compliance, and operational readiness.
• Lead advisory workstreams from discovery and problem definition through recommendations, execution planning, and executive readout.
• Prepare and facilitate client workshops with CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, risk, compliance, security, and transformation leaders.
• Translate business and technology risks into clear priorities, recommendations, roadmaps, and practical execution plans.
• Develop executive-ready presentations, assessments, recommendations, and client deliverables.
• Build trusted relationships with client stakeholders and effectively navigate complex enterprise environments.

Pursuit & Solution Development

• Support opportunity qualification, client discovery, pursuit strategy, and solution shaping for enterprise Risk & Resilience opportunities.
• Develop scopes of work, proposals, engagement approaches, workplans, and supporting client materials.
• Partner with practice leadership on pricing, scope validation, assumptions, resource requirements, and delivery models.
• Help ensure proposed solutions connect client business objectives with risk, resilience, cybersecurity, AI, cloud governance, and compliance considerations.
• Collaborate with sales teams and technical subject matter experts to translate client needs into compelling advisory solutions.

Engagement Execution

• Develop engagement workplans and lead day-to-day execution across active client workstreams.
• Coordinate subject matter experts across cybersecurity, cloud, AI, compliance, architecture, and delivery while maintaining ownership of the broader client outcome.
• Identify risks, dependencies, decisions, and actions throughout engagements and ensure they are effectively communicated and managed.
• Maintain strong client and executive communication throughout the engagement lifecycle.
• Balance multiple pursuits and client engagements in a fast-moving environment.

Practice Development

• Help develop repeatable Risk & Resilience methodologies, frameworks, SOW templates, assessment approaches, and delivery assets.
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