Cybersecurity Practice Director Jobs

ImagineX is a rapidly growing technology consulting firm with an obsession for consistently delivering excellence to clients while always remaining passionate for what we do. At IX, we understand that happy consultants make happy clients, so nothing is more important to us than a strong culture, solid leadership, collaboration, open communication, and supporting our people each and every day.

We are on the hunt for a Cybersecurity Practice Director working as the key leader of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex technical and business challenges through trust-based advisory relationships. You will be part of a growing team driving strategic programs, data analytics, innovation, cyber resiliency, vulnerability management and response, and technical implementation activities. You will also hold a level of operational responsibility for organizing, managing and growing the team and P&L. You will contribute to developing and managing resource and hiring plans as well as budgets and project/practice financial models. You will be an active participant in business development and growth at existing and new clients with an annual target of managed revenue.

At ImagineX you will enjoy working with a sharp, energetic & fun group of consultants. No big egos allowed! We offer flexible work hours (100% remote), exciting projects, and the opportunity to work with a variety of bleeding edge technologies. Be a leader, have a voice, and make an impact at ImagineX Consulting!

Requirements:

• Managing project financials in line with agreed-upon budgets
• Leading and managing cross-functional efforts across operational teams (often in times of higher stress, such as incident response)
• Thought leadership experience is required (must be comfortable at speaking engagements, workshops, etc.).
• Overseeing and reporting of cyber risks, threats and vulnerabilities
• Designing and implementing defensible security system architectures, using concepts such as zero trust, defense in depth, least privilege
• Developing, implementing and testing cyber resiliency plans
• Pre-Sales discussions with Accounts Teams as well as Potential Clients
• Coach others and encourage them to take ownership of their development.
• Analyze complex ideas or challenges and build a range of meaningful recommendations.
• Strong management consulting experience required (Big4 preferred)
• Managing the Vulnerability Management and Cyber Resilience teams to ensure project initiatives, resource and capacity planning as well as reviewing and approving solutions
• Pursue opportunities to develop existing and new skills outside of your comfort zone.
• Implementing practices to optimize this process across the organization for the proactive reduction of organizational risk
• Leveraging knowledge of common industry frameworks such as NIST CSF, COBIT, ISO27K1/2
• Ability to travel up to 30% to client sites and or IX HQ in Atlanta (100% remote when not traveling)
• Address sub-standard work or work that does not meet our company's or client's expectations.
• Focus on building trusted relationships.
• Creating a positive working environment by monitoring and managing workloads of the team - balancing client expectations with the work-life quality of team members
• Managing and overseeing projects involving information security, technology risk management, cybersecurity or cyber risk management
• Manage a variety of viewpoints to build consensus and create positive outcomes for all parties.
• Strong strategic leadership experience and long-term planning
• Use multiple sources of information including broader stakeholder views to develop solutions and recommendations.
• 15+ years of experience providing industry-leading practices in cyber risk management and regulatory compliance
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Using tools and technology to provide data analytics and business intelligence on cyber threats, risk and vulnerabilities
• Researching, understanding, and developing remediation strategies for vulnerabilities identified on various types of systems
• Analyzing the structure of common attack techniques to evaluate an attacker's spread through a system and network, anticipating and thwarting further attacker activity; Utilizing tools and evidence to determine the kind of malware used in an attack, including rootkits, backdoors, and Trojan horses, choosing appropriate defenses and response tactics for each
• Designing KRIs and metrics to build reports and dashboards for management
• Act to resolve issues which prevent effective team working, even during times of change and uncertainty.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
• Located in Atlanta or Chicago
• Master of Business Administration (MBA)
• Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)