IT Project Manager Cybersecurity

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The Cybersecurity Project Manager is responsible for the delivery of strategic cybersecurity initiatives that strengthen the organization's security posture, reduce risk, improve compliance, and enable business objectives. Each project manager role will be anchored to projects within a key cybersecurity domain or, in some cases, to initiatives requiring partnership across multiple cybersecurity domains, such as Identity Security, Threat Management, Security Operations, Product Security, Governance, Risk & Compliance, Network Security, Cloud Security, and Emerging Technologies.

The Cybersecurity Project Manager serves as a trusted delivery leader who translates strategy into execution, aligns stakeholders around shared outcomes, manages risks and dependencies, and ensures initiatives are delivered predictably and transparently. This individual operates across technical and business teams, partnering with cybersecurity leaders, architects, engineers, product teams, vendors, and executives to drive successful outcomes.

Success in this role extends beyond delivering scope on time and within budget. The Cybersecurity Project Manager connects cybersecurity strategy to execution and ensures initiatives achieve their intended cybersecurity outcomes, such as risk reduction, control coverage, remediation, adoption, resilience, or capability maturity.

Key Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end delivery of cybersecurity initiatives from planning through implementation and operational transition.

Develop and maintain integrated project plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, assumptions, decisions, and action items.

Coordinate delivery across cybersecurity teams, technology organizations, business stakeholders, vendors, and external partners.

Drive execution of initiatives related to areas such as Identity & Access Management, Privileged Access Management, Security Operations, Threat Detection & Response, Network Security, Application Security, Cloud Security, AI Security, Governance, Risk & Compliance, and Security Architecture.

Facilitate planning sessions, stakeholder reviews, executive updates, governance forums, and project steering meetings.

Identify delivery risks, resource constraints, cross-team dependencies, and schedule impacts; develop mitigation and response plans.

Establish and maintain project reporting that provides clear visibility into progress, risks, decisions, milestones, and business outcomes.

Experience developing status reporting and stakeholder communications, including leadership-level communications.

Partner with cybersecurity leaders to align project execution with strategic objectives, capability roadmaps, and organizational priorities.

Manage project scope, goals, and timeline while ensuring alignment with approved objectives.

Partner with portfolio management to maintain project budgets and forecasts, including resource allocations and time tracking for the project.

Drive accountability for commitments and facilitate timely resolution of issues and blockers.

Support vendor engagements, contract deliverables, procurement activities, and implementation planning when applicable.

Ensure delivery artifacts, documentation, governance requirements, and project controls are maintained throughout the project lifecycle.

Promote consistency in project delivery practices while adapting approaches to Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid delivery models as needed.

Lead project teams without direct authority.