Project Manager Consultant - Cybersecurity Controls

Kalles Group offers a hybrid role based in Seattle, WA with a salary range of $175,000-$195,000 per year, plus medical, dental, and vision plans, 401K with matching, and PTO for salaried employees. The work supports a focus on work/life balance while leading a cybersecurity controls prioritization program for a large global philanthropic organization.

This consultant position is hybrid, requiring 1-2 days per week on-site at the client’s location in Seattle. Candidates must already be living in the Seattle area.

What you’ll do

• Act as the program’s prioritization engine and traffic controller, owning WS2 control prioritization using risk-based criteria to rank, sequence, and re-baseline controls as risk, capacity, and priorities change.
• Serve as a central coordination point for intake, dependencies, conflicts, and handoffs, using repeatable and operationalized workflows.
• Build and maintain the integrated roadmap, schedule, RAID log, and a resource view.
• Support executive and steering committee communication with status updates, risk escalations, trade-off options, and decision requests.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to gather insights and clarify processes.
• Define and report KPIs and dashboards covering control implementation, adoption, frontline testing results, and remediation tracking.
• Drive remediation to closure by escalating blockers and holding teams accountable.
• Coordinate with the BSA and Change Manager so requirements, validation, and adoption are planned alongside delivery.
• Facilitate governance forums, support risk acceptance discussions, and enable cross-team decisions.

What you bring

• 8+ years of program or project management, including leading cybersecurity transformation and organizational change in large organizations.
• Experience with enterprise identity modernization, AI governance, risk management, and secure technology adoption.
• Ability to prioritize security risks, manage cross-functional dependencies, and align business and security teams.
• Strong skills in stakeholder engagement, executive communication, and change governance.
• Working knowledge of AI governance and compliance frameworks.
• Experience measuring adoption and progress through dashboards, KPIs, frontline testing, and remediation tracking.

Preferred qualifications

• Proven program success at other large organizations.
• Non-profit, philanthropic, or global-health-adjacent experience.
• Risk quantification or scoring methods.
• Agile, hybrid, and portfolio management approaches.

Compensation and scheduling

The annual salary range is $175,000-$195,000. This position is hybrid with 1-2 days per week on-site in Seattle, WA.

How to apply

Please fill out the form below (including uploading your most recent resume) and Kalles Group will be in touch.