Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Playlist is building a definitive platform for intentional living, connecting people with inspiring experiences in fitness, wellness, and beyond. The role of Manager, Technical Program Management in Cyber Security involves leading a team to coordinate and deliver cyber security and IT programs, ensuring alignment across various stakeholders and driving initiatives that reduce risk and enhance organizational performance.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team of Security and IT technical program managers, owning hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development
- Own the Cyber Security and IT program management portfolio, setting how programs are scoped, prioritized, sequenced, and delivered across the org
- Set the operating rhythm for the team across intake, prioritization, resourcing, and reporting, balancing competing programs against multi-quarter outcomes and risk reduction targets
- Partner with Security and IT leadership to translate strategy into a prioritized program roadmap and a resourcing model that holds up under trade-offs
- Represent portfolio status, risks, and trade-offs to executive stakeholders, and make the calls needed to keep delivery predictable
- Build, standardize, and continuously improve the team’s playbooks, templates, and measurement systems so delivery quality does not depend on any one person
- Surface and resolve enterprise-wide delivery risks, dependencies, and blockers across Security, IT, and Engineering
- Maintain deep, evolving security domain fluency and apply it to guide the team, challenge trade-offs, and operate as a trusted technical liaison across Engineering, Security, and business stakeholders
- Navigate ambiguity with a bias for action, stay creative and resourceful in problem solving, and ask questions early and often when working in new or unfamiliar systems or topics
Skills
- 6-8+ years in program management, client services, management consulting, or a similar role at a technology company, including 2+ years directly managing people. Prior experience running Cyber Security or IT programs required
- Track record of building, leading, and developing high-performing program or delivery teams
- Deep expertise in program management best practices and tools, from initiation through planning, execution, monitoring, and closure, applied at portfolio scale
- Strong technical aptitude with an ability to understand technical architectures and speak to system design, reliability and scalability challenges, and design trade-offs
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with experience interpreting and communicating technical requirements to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executives
- Sets direction, makes trade-offs explicit, and holds a team accountable to outcomes and risk reduction targets
- Strong understanding of information security frameworks (e.g., NIST, PCI-DSS, HITRUST, etc.) and the ability to communicate them to non-technical stakeholders is highly desirable
Benefits
- The total compensation package for this position may also include a performance bonus, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans
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