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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates extensive leadership in cybersecurity consulting, with a strong focus on financial accountability, project economics, and client engagement. Capable of developing workforce plans and managing multidisciplinary teams while ensuring high-quality delivery and client satisfaction.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Cybersecurity Consulting LeadershipFinancial Accountability for Revenue and MarginExperience with Professional Services ModelsDevelopment of Workforce PlansEngagement with Senior Client Executives
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Hard Skills
Cybersecurity GovernanceCybersecurity ArchitectureOffensive SecurityProject EconomicsConsulting MethodologiesDelivery StandardsCapacity ManagementUtilization ManagementQuality ControlService Design
Soft Skills
Leadership DevelopmentPerformance ManagementClient EngagementCollaborationStrategic Thinking
Certifications & Qualifications
CISSPCISMCISA
Industry Keywords
SOXAICPA SOC Reporting StandardsISO27001PCINISTHIPAAGRCApplication SecurityCloud SecurityMilitary Experience
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesCloudCyber Security
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead a distributed Cyber Consulting Services organization spanning Information Security Governance, Cybersecurity Architecture, and Offensive Security
- Grow the business faster than the cybersecurity services market while maintaining gross profit, margin, utilization, delivery quality, and client outcomes
- Own operating performance across revenue, gross profit/gross margin, utilization, backlog, capacity, project economics, delivery forecasting, and engagement health
- Build workforce plans balancing FTE capacity, skills, backlog, utilization, projected demand, and consulting economics
- Increase internally delivered services revenue by building FTE capability and selectively using subcontractors
- Own subcontractor and third-party delivery strategy, including partner selection, economics, quality, capacity, and performance
- Lead, develop, and hold accountable managers across multiple cybersecurity disciplines
- Own succession planning, leadership development, performance management, hiring strategy, career development, and retention
- Establish mechanisms for resource forecasting, engagement governance, project reviews, quality control, utilization management, and delivery escalations
- Maintain executive oversight of major engagements and intervene when delivery quality, project economics, client satisfaction, or contractual commitments are at risk
- Create, evolve, and retire consulting services based on demand, performance, market changes, technical developments, and scalability
- Define and improve consulting methodologies, delivery standards, costing models, level-of-effort models, and repeatable engagement structures
- Challenge Principal-level consultants and practice leaders on technical direction, methodology, service relevance, delivery quality, and capability development
- Partner with Client Success Management, Sales, and pre-sales teams on strategic engagements, capacity, client needs, and technical sales enablement
- Develop technical enablement for Sales and pre-sales teams to identify, position, and qualify cybersecurity consulting opportunities
- Engage CISOs, CIOs, CTOs, and other executives during strategic engagements, escalations, briefings, and sponsorship activities
- Build collaboration across governance, architecture, and offensive security teams to provide integrated consulting capabilities
- Travel up to 30% to client locations and internal meetings
Requirements
What you’ll need- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience and/or military experience
- Minimum of 12–15 years of cybersecurity experience with progressively increasing leadership responsibility
- Significant leadership experience in cybersecurity consulting, advisory, professional services, or a comparable client-facing security organization
- Experience leading managers and senior individual contributors in geographically distributed teams of more than 20 people
- Experience leading a multidisciplinary cybersecurity organization including governance, security architecture, offensive security, or comparable consulting disciplines
- Financial accountability for revenue, margin, utilization, capacity, and project economics
- Experience with fixed-fee, T&M, retainer, or comparable professional services models
- Ability to work effectively with Sales and pre-sales organizations while maintaining a vendor-neutral consulting approach
- Functional understanding of SOX, AICPA SOC Reporting Standards, ISO27001, PCI, NIST, HIPAA, and related methodologies
- Experience developing workforce plans and managing subcontractors or third-party delivery resources
- Experience working directly with senior client executives and serving as an escalation point or executive sponsor
- Strong understanding of cybersecurity consulting across GRC, security architecture, offensive security, application security, and cloud security
- Technical depth to challenge Principal Consultants on methodologies, technical approaches, service design, delivery quality, and emerging requirements
- Ability to translate consulting demand and backlog into hiring, development, subcontractor, and capacity decisions
- Experience building repeatable consulting services, including methodologies, scope, level-of-effort estimates, costing, staffing models, and delivery standards
- Experience operating in a remote or geographically distributed delivery organization
- Ability to travel up to 30% for client engagements and internal meetings
- Preferred: AI Security consulting, service portfolio development, Sales/pre-sales enablement, external speaking, CISSP/CISM/CISA or comparable certification, and military leadership or cybersecurity experience
Benefits
Comp & perks- Equal Opportunity Employer
- Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities
- Opportunity to work with AI-driven analytics, cloud solutions, cybersecurity, next-generation infrastructure, and digital transformation
- Opportunity to contribute to a collaborative culture of trailblazers, thinkers, builders, and collaborators
- Applications accepted on a rolling basis