Project Manager – Security Services

Thinkahead Consultant Psychologist Pty Ltd

Project Manager managing cybersecurity engagements and ensuring high-quality outcomes at AHEAD. Collaborating with teams on identity and data security projects.

Posted 6/2/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $140,000 - $170,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cyber SecurityPMP

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Act as engagement lead on customer engagements
Communicate project roles and responsibilities to project team members while planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing project objectives.
Enforce policies and procedures for each project
Achieve operational objectives by:
Contributing information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews
Preparing and completing action plans
Implementing production, productivity, quality, and client-service standards
Resolving problems
Determining system improvements
Implementing change
Meet financial objectives by forecasting requirements, quoting services, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective actions.
Lead delivery of cybersecurity projects in identity, access, and data protection domains, including assessments, design, implementation, migration, remediation, and operationalization efforts.
Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, and participating in professional organizations.
Coordinate project execution across consultants, architects, engineers, customer stakeholders, and partner vendors to ensure delivery quality, milestone attainment, and issue resolution.
Manage RAID logs, project dependencies, change control, decision tracking, and executive status reporting for security engagements.
Drive client governance cadences, including kickoff sessions, status meetings, risk reviews, steering updates, and acceptance/sign-off checkpoints.
Ensure projects follow repeatable delivery standards, documentation requirements, evidence collection expectations, and quality gates.
Partner with technical leads to align delivery plans to security controls, testing, cutover, validation, and post-implementation support needs.
Manage multiple concurrent security engagements and shared resources across pods or workstreams while maintaining schedule and risk governance.
Enhance departmental and organizational reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests while exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
Develop budgets and track budget expenses.
Provide performance management feedback for project aligned resources based on project observations.
Staff projects appropriately and supervise team members.
Manage team members in a proficient and effective manner
Promote process improvement.
Must pursue professional self-development opportunities on a regular basis.

Requirements

What you’ll need

3-5 years of prior project management and planning experience.
Possess excellent organizational, presentation, analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.
Strong ability to manage client expectations including in areas of scope, schedule, budget, and satisfaction.
Able to work both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
Experience managing cybersecurity, IAM, or data security projects in consulting, professional services, or enterprise IT environments.
Working knowledge of security delivery lifecycles, including assessment, design, implementation, testing, remediation, cutover, and transition to operations.
Familiarity with identity security concepts such as IAM, IGA, PAM, MFA, SSO, federation, RBAC, SoD, service accounts, and secrets management.
Familiarity with data security concepts such as data discovery, classification, labeling, DSPM, DLP, retention, insider risk, and governance.
Ability to manage technical and business stakeholders through security risk, compliance, and control-related decisions.
Experience creating executive-ready status reporting, action plans, issue escalations, and customer-facing documentation.
Preferred: PMP, CSM, ITIL, Security+, CISSP familiarity, or equivalent security/project delivery credentials.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
401(k)
Paid company holidays
Paid time off
Paid parental and caregiver leave
Plus more! See benefits https://www.aheadbenefits.com/ for additional details.

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Hard Skills & Tools

project managementcybersecurityidentity access management (IAM)data securitysecurity delivery lifecyclesrisk managementbudget managementperformance managementprocess improvementchange management

Soft Skills

organizational skillspresentation skillsanalytical skillswritten communicationverbal communicationclient expectation managementcollaborationteam managementproblem-solvingself-development

Certifications

PMPCSMITILSecurity+CISSP