Sr Technical Program Manager - Cybersecurity Strategy

Playlist

6h•$100,000 - $132,000

About The Position

Playlist is building the definitive platform for intentional living, connecting people with inspiring experiences in fitness, wellness, and beyond. With popular brands like Mindbody and ClassPass, Playlist empowers businesses and individuals, making it effortless for aspirations to become actions. Join us in reshaping technology's role to foster meaningful, real-world connections. The Role You'll Play Lead strategic execution and delivery for a cross-functional Cyber Security or IT program, including influence over resourcing decisions, prioritization, and stakeholder engagement Manage multiple complex projects timelines, risks, and action items for multiple projects, potentially with competing timelines or resourcing needs, and escalate project issues or blockers Communicate and influence effectively on multiple levels (e.g., Security & IT leadership team, engineers, cross-discipline stakeholders) Identify creative ways to measure and track progress on your program’s initiatives and promote learning from both success and failures to a wider audience Design and iteratively improve templates that support programs, projects, and enterprise-wide processes Navigate ambiguity with a bias for action, being creative and resourceful in problem solving, and ask questions early and often when working in new or unfamiliar systems or topics Demonstrate deep, evolving technical fluency in core security domains (e.g., IAM, endpoint security, cloud risk, compliance frameworks) and apply it to shape program strategy, drive architectural trade-off decisions, and translate complexity for executive and cross-functional audiences, while serving as a trusted technical liaison across Engineering, Security, and business stakeholders

Requirements

4-6+ years in program management, client services, management consulting, or a similar role at a technology company.
Prior experience with running Cyber Security or IT programs required
Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, cyber security, or other related field, or equivalent practical experience
Deep expertise in program management best practices and tools, from initiation through planning, execution, monitoring, and closure
Solid technical aptitude with an ability to understand technical architectures and speak to system design, reliability and scalability challenges, and design tradeoffs
Strong written and verbal communications skills and experience in interpreting and communicating technical requirements to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Learns quickly and operates independently in familiar domains, proactively seeking guidance in new areas, while owning program risks and driving structured mitigation strategies

Nice To Haves

Strong understanding of information security frameworks (e.g., NIST, PCI-DSS, HITRUST, etc.) is highly desirable

Responsibilities

Lead strategic execution and delivery for a cross-functional Cyber Security or IT program, including influence over resourcing decisions, prioritization, and stakeholder engagement
Manage multiple complex projects timelines, risks, and action items for multiple projects, potentially with competing timelines or resourcing needs, and escalate project issues or blockers
Communicate and influence effectively on multiple levels (e.g., Security & IT leadership team, engineers, cross-discipline stakeholders)
Identify creative ways to measure and track progress on your program’s initiatives and promote learning from both success and failures to a wider audience
Design and iteratively improve templates that support programs, projects, and enterprise-wide processes
Navigate ambiguity with a bias for action, being creative and resourceful in problem solving, and ask questions early and often when working in new or unfamiliar systems or topics
Demonstrate deep, evolving technical fluency in core security domains (e.g., IAM, endpoint security, cloud risk, compliance frameworks) and apply it to shape program strategy, drive architectural trade-off decisions, and translate complexity for executive and cross-functional audiences, while serving as a trusted technical liaison across Engineering, Security, and business stakeholders