About The Position
Partnerize is seeking a highly organized, detail-oriented Senior Technical Project Manager to coordinate and drive technical compliance, security, and industry certification initiatives. The role manages external audit timelines while aligning execution across software development, IT/TechOps, and business operations, with project plans, tracking, and reporting conducted in accordance with corporate PMO standards. The position owns the planning, tracking, and execution of annual Media Rating Council (MRC) accreditation and SOC2 Type 1 and Type 2 audits. It provides project management, compliance oversight, governance, and auditability to keep teams aligned and audit-ready. The role combines structured, fixed-deadline audit planning with coordination of compliance tasks within Agile engineering teams, and serves as the operational liaison for external auditors and assessors.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience as a Technical Project Manager, Program Manager, or Delivery Manager in a SaaS, Adtech, or software engineering environment.
- Proven experience managing projects and reporting project health, timelines, and status updates in alignment with structured PMO frameworks.
- Demonstrated ability to manage fixed-deadline, structured compliance timelines using milestone or waterfall approaches while integrating execution into Agile engineering teams.
- Practical experience managing projects, timelines, evidence gathering, or compliance oversight related to SOC2 audits or MRC accreditation.
- Advanced proficiency in structured project planning and execution tracking platforms such as Asana or Jira.
- Comfort working with engineering and IT teams and ability to understand cloud infrastructure concepts such as AWS or GCP, database schemas, and identity and access management frameworks.
Nice To Haves
- Deep understanding of ad-serving technology, measurement methodologies, and industry measurement standards.
- PMP, CAPM, PMI-ACP, or introductory security or compliance credentials.
- Experience using compliance automation platforms such as Drata, Vanta, or Secureframe to track control verification and evidence gathering.
Responsibilities
- Structure compliance, security, and certification project plans, trackers, and document repositories according to PMO methodologies and guidelines.
- Provide routine progress reports, KPI dashboards, and project health updates covering milestones, risks, and blockers.
- Track dependencies and risks and escalate issues through formal PMO paths when compliance milestones are at risk.
- Maintain program trackers, schedules, and resource-planning artifacts in central PMO tools such as Asana or Jira.
- Create phase-gate plans and track critical paths for audit readiness, dry runs, evidence lock-down, and formal evaluation windows.
- Translate compliance controls into actionable technical specifications, user stories, and development tasks.
- Coordinate with Security, TechOps, Data, and Engineering teams to integrate compliance work and vulnerability remediation into sprints or Kanban workflows.
- Oversee operational controls managed by technical partner teams to support continuous audit readiness.
- Act as the primary operational liaison for external auditors and assessors, coordinating meetings, requests, and inquiries.
- Manage the gathering, formatting, and submission of technical evidence for SOC2 and MRC evaluations.
- Track and drive remediation of compliance gaps, audit findings, and vulnerability remediation tasks.
- Manage the end-to-end timeline for annual MRC audits, pre-assessments, and ongoing compliance reviews.
- Coordinate engineering and product work related to data pipelines, measurement methodologies, and filtration logic to align with MRC and industry measurement standards.
- Coordinate methodology disclosures and maintain a Journal of Change process for communicating changes to accredited elements with MRC and auditor representatives.
- Manage MRC-related business operations workflows, including Business Partner Qualification, client vetting, client onboarding and support disclosures, and discrepancy and data-reissuance tracking.
- Organize schedules, operational execution, and readiness milestones for annual SOC2 Type 1 and Type 2 audits.
- Work with engineering and IT teams to maintain and document system monitoring, access control reviews, and infrastructure configurations according to SOC2 Trust Services Criteria.
- Help manage and monitor compliance automation tools to support ongoing control verification and evidence tracking.
Benefits
- Flexible Time Off Policy
- Enhanced parental leave: 16 weeks for birth parents and 8 weeks for non-birth parents at full pay
- Regular company events and activities
- Company-sponsored health and welfare benefits
- 401k plan with a 4% employee match
- Enhanced wellness program including access to EAP, wellness coaching, and Wellness Fridays
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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