Program Manager IV
6 Months
Menlo Park, California 94025 (100% REMOTE)
 
Top 3 must-have HARD skills:

• 8 to 10 years
• Certifies information security
• Delivery manager
• Cyber security and or risk
• Stakeholder management

Good to have skills:   

• Technicality- experience managing technical projects
• Risk and governance (cyber security preferred)
• An engineer plus 5 + years of experience would work, but not just an engineer
• 3rd party security and identity and access management
• Big tech or financial background

Business Group & Key Projects: External resourcing security program
Compelling Story & Candidate Value Proposition: Scale is extreme- bigger and more meaningful, working with some of the industries best in security
Typical Day in the Role: Logging on- Checking updates globally, Reviewing project backlog and scheduling, Determining the day's tasks, Helping unblock any issues or risks, preparing, Working through past 6 months of tasks
How will performance be measured: outcome oriented - program under budget, on time, complete. Good soft skills. able to collaborate. be able to define the needs of the tasks and proceed accordingly.
Interview Process:

• 3 people - 30 minute convo (1st screen) then 1 to 2 others to vet (panel).

 
The Team:

• Team is looking for a Program Manager to join the Cross-client Security Delivery Management team. The Security Delivery Management team is responsible for scaling and sustaining long-term initiatives in service of our mission — to protect the company, our community, and its data while empowering safe innovation. As a delivery manager on this function you will lead portfolios and workstreams driving security goals across Client.
• The ideal Delivery Manager is someone who has knowledge or experience in running large scale portfolios of work, rapidly building cross functional relationships, and risk management. They will be key partners in helping to ensure Client has premier security delivery capabilities so we can understand and mitigate threats to our users today and prepare for those tomorrow. Specifically, the Security Delivery Management team will:
• Evaluate existing and future problem spaces through a comprehensive Client lens to ensure Security solution development is universal and de-duplicated.
• Build playbooks and process channels to help Security scale across Client and the multiple ever-expanding surfaces with minimal friction for partner teams.
• Drive playbook adoption and application to hit clear quantifiable Client-wide Security goals, managing budget and vendors where necessary.
• Scale playbooks by constantly driving efficiencies (e.g. reduce overhead, increase speed to execute, develop automation, develop quality assurance).

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate existing and future problem spaces through a comprehensive Client lens, auditing similar problems in multiple places, to ensure Security solution development is universal and deduplicated.
• Build playbooks and process channels to help security scale across Client and the multiple ever-expanding dimensions with minimal friction for partner teams.
• Connect dots by understanding/auditing where people are solving the similar problems in multiple different places and deduping.
• Drive standardized frameworks for identifying and closing gaps for new products, regulation, external audits and compliance, third parties, internal tools, etc.
• Develop Client-wide playbooks for steady state delivery of security services, including operational measurement.
• Scale playbooks by constantly driving efficiencies (e.g. reduce overhead, increase speed to execute, automate).
• Responsible for managing multiple Security portfolios and workstreams using Agile best practices. This includes planning, coordinating with cross-functional teams, tracking status and reporting, communicating to the project team and key stakeholders, and creating the appropriate documentation.
• Lead vendor selection, manage vendor performance, and enforce contractual obligations to ensure high quality, consistent delivery.
• Build close relationships with other highly cross-functional teams within Client including, but not limited to Legal, Communications, Finance, Sourcing & Procurement, and Engineering.
• Demonstrate subject matter experience of understanding of the supported domain, design measurement methodology, and conduct through analysis of the problem space.
• Select appropriate security metrics to measure the success of the portfolio and analyze data to identify trends and patterns.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a directly related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of experience in program management (for IC6, 8 years for IC5)
• 3+ years of cybersecurity or information security
• In-depth experience of one or more project and/or product management methodologies (for example: agile, PMI, product execution)
• Track record of making risk based decisions using data to understand trends and support decision making
• Track record of consistently working under your own initiative, demonstrating experience of resourcefulness and pivoting in changing situations, being detail-oriented and a proactive problem solver, and delivering results at a large scale
• Experience influencing and driving alignment amongst a wide stakeholder base, including: executive leaders, peers, technical, and non-technical stakeholders across roles across the company

Preferred Qualifications

• Cybersecurity certifications, e.g., Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
• Product Development related project management certifications, e.g., Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• Experience understanding proprietary in-house built systems, information security, corporate systems (e.g., ServiceNow, Salesforce, Workday), and driving complex projects with process and technology changes.
• Experience managing projects related to cybersecurity and information security operations, including projects on improving and demonstrating the maturity of repeatable operations (i.e. compliance issue remediation, process maturity enhancements, developing runbooks to run repeatable processes , etc.)
• Track record of building cybersecurity / information security programs that stand up to rigor of external legal and regulatory compliance with eye toward developing efficiencies (e.g. reduced overhead, increased speed to execute, automation features, etc).

 

 


At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $65.00/hr.