Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Coalfire is a cybersecurity consulting company that helps clients address complex cybersecurity challenges. The Senior Project Manager leads complex, client-facing consulting engagements across cloud, compliance advisory, and related practices, managing delivery plans, governance, budgets, risks, stakeholders, quality, and outcomes from initiation through closeout.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary project management point of contact for clients, sponsors, and internal delivery teams throughout the engagement
- Build trusted client relationships through proactive communication, credible advice, reliable follow-through, and a strong understanding of client objectives
- Lead project initiation, discovery, kickoff, planning, execution, transition, and closeout activities for consulting engagements
- Translate statements of work, engagement objectives, and client requirements into clear delivery plans, milestones, outcomes, and acceptance criteria
- Set expectations regarding scope, schedule, budget, roles, decision rights, deliverables, assumptions, and escalation paths
- Anticipate client needs and delivery risks, surface concerns early, and recommend practical options that support successful outcomes
- Own the full project lifecycle for multiple concurrent client engagements, from initiation through delivery, transition, and closeout
- Develop and maintain integrated project plans with appropriate detail to manage milestones, workstreams, dependencies, resources, deliverables, and critical path activities
- Establish and maintain baselines for scope, schedule, budget, resources, and delivery milestones; assess and communicate variance
- Coordinate work across matrixed consulting, technical, operational, and client teams to maintain delivery velocity and alignment
- Define deliverable ownership, review cycles, acceptance criteria, and completion evidence; drive timely client approvals and sign-offs
- Manage scope and change control, including impact analysis, approvals, documentation, and communication of approved changes
- Track project health using meaningful delivery metrics and provide clear recommendations when intervention or recovery planning is required
- Ensure project documentation, decisions, action items, approvals, and status artifacts are complete, accurate, and maintained throughout the engagement
- Design and manage an engagement governance model appropriate to the project’s size, complexity, client environment, and risk profile
- Establish meeting cadences, forums, decision rights, escalation paths, reporting expectations, and stakeholder participation across the engagement
- Maintain the RAID log and actively manage risks, assumptions, issues, decisions, dependencies, constraints, and mitigations through resolution
- Lead governance reviews, stage gates, steering committee meetings, executive updates, and other formal delivery checkpoints
- Prepare concise governance packs that communicate overall health, progress, decisions needed, risks, issues, financial status, and recommended actions
- Escalate matters with sufficient context, impact analysis, options, and a recommended path forward; follow through until resolution or formal acceptance
- Apply Coalfire delivery methodology, quality standards, and required controls; identify and address gaps before they affect client outcomes
- Ensure engagements are delivered in accordance with applicable contractual commitments, internal policies, security expectations, and quality requirements
- Monitor project budgets, forecasts, burn, actuals, remaining effort, resource plans, and financial performance throughout the engagement
- Partner with engagement and practice leadership to identify financial risks, forecast changes, and recovery actions
- Track scope alignment and potential scope leakage; coordinate change requests and commercial impacts with the appropriate stakeholders
- Support accurate time, expense, invoicing, utilization, and revenue-related processes in accordance with Coalfire requirements
- Maintain visibility into resource capacity, staffing needs, delivery constraints, and planned transitions across the project lifecycle
- Provide clear, concise, and audience-appropriate status reporting for clients, project teams, sponsors, practice leaders, and executives
- Lead client status meetings, working sessions, steering committees, executive briefings, retrospectives, and other required forums
- Tailor communication style and level of detail to technical teams, business stakeholders, client executives, and internal leadership
- Maintain decision logs, action registers, meeting outcomes, and commitments; ensure owners and due dates are clear and actively managed
- Communicate delivery health, tradeoffs, risks, and decisions in a timely manner, including when the message is difficult or requires escalation
- Lead and influence cross-functional, matrixed teams without relying solely on direct authority
- Clarify roles, responsibilities, handoffs, working agreements, and accountability across internal and client stakeholders
- Facilitate collaboration, resolve conflicts, remove blockers, and create an environment that supports high-quality delivery
- Coordinate with resource management, sales, finance, operations, security, and practice leadership to support successful engagement execution
- Delegate effectively, reinforce ownership, and provide constructive feedback that improves team performance and delivery consistency
- Apply lessons learned, delivery metrics, client feedback, and retrospectives to improve project execution and client experience
- Contribute to the evolution of Coalfire project management standards, governance practices, templates, playbooks, and reporting
- Identify opportunities to improve delivery predictability, operational efficiency, communication, quality, and portfolio visibility
- Perform other duties as assigned and maintain company-defined billable utilization targets
Skills
- 5+ years of progressive project management experience, including substantial client-facing project delivery experience in consulting, professional services, technology, cybersecurity, compliance, advisory, or a related environment
- Bachelor's degree preferred, or associate degree plus equivalent experience in project management, business administration, consulting, technology, or a related field
- Demonstrated success leading complex client engagements with multiple workstreams, stakeholders, deliverables, dependencies, and competing priorities
- Experience managing scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, issues, assumptions, decisions, dependencies, quality, and change control across the project lifecycle
- Demonstrated experience designing or managing project governance, including steering committees, decision rights, escalation paths, stage gates, RAID management, and executive reporting
- Experience partnering with client executives, sponsors, business stakeholders, and delivery leaders to drive alignment and outcomes
- Experience leading cross-functional, matrixed teams in a consulting or professional-services delivery model
- Experience managing project financials, forecasts, utilization, resource plans, scope alignment, and commercial impacts
- Working knowledge of Waterfall, Agile, and hybrid project management approaches, with the judgment to tailor methods to the engagement
- Experience facilitating executive meetings, steering committees, status reviews, working sessions, and issue-resolution forums
- Strong written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills
- Excellent customer service skills and a demonstrated commitment to client satisfaction, delivery quality, and professional integrity
- Experience with project and portfolio management tools such as Smartsheet, Jira, OpenAir, Microsoft Project, or similar platforms
- Advanced ability to create executive-ready status reports, governance packs, dashboards, financial summaries, and decision materials
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to evaluate complex information and recommend a clear course of action
- Ability to establish structure in ambiguous or fast-moving environments and to operate effectively with minimal day-to-day supervision
- Demonstrated leadership, ownership of outcomes, sound judgment, adaptability, and consistent follow-through
- Ability to coach team members and influence stakeholders while maintaining appropriate boundaries and accountability
- Availability to provide full-time support aligned to U.S.-based delivery teams
- Remote position; travel for client or internal work as needed (up to 20%)
- Bachelor's degree preferred, or associate degree plus equivalent experience in project management, business administration, consulting, technology, or a related field
- Experience in cybersecurity, compliance, cloud, technology advisory, or related consulting services is preferred
- Foundational understanding of compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP, DoD, CMMC, ISO, SOC, or HITRUST is preferred
- PMP, PgMP, CSM, PMI-ACP, SAFe, or a related project management certification is preferred
Benefits
- Flexible work model that empowers you to choose when and where you’ll work most effectively – whether you’re at home or an office.
- Opportunities to join employee resource groups.
- Participation in in-person and virtual events.
- Paid parental leave.
- Flexible time off.
- Certification and training reimbursement.
- Digital mental health and wellbeing support membership.
- Comprehensive insurance options.
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