Cybersecurity Portfolio & Operations Lead

This role owns cybersecurity financial governance, vendor and contract management, workforce planning coordination, and executive operating cadence for a Fortune 50 cybersecurity organization. The role aspires to operate with embedded AI support to include automated intake, tracking, analysis, and executive reporting—allowing the leader to focus on judgment, prioritization, and executive decision-making.

Core Accountabilities

• Financial & Investment Governance
  • Own FY budget planning, forecasting, and run-rate management across cybersecurity programs
  • Frame executive-ready investment decisions, tradeoffs, and risk implications
  • Ensure spend aligns with enterprise guardrails and long-term cost discipline
  • Serve as the decision integrator between Cyber, Finance, and Procurement
  • AI Opportunity: AI augments modeling, scenario analysis, and summaries; final decisions remain human-owned.
• Vendor, Contract & Commercial Oversight
  • Govern strategic vendor relationships (e.g., advisory, services, tooling)
  • Own renewal timing, license optimization strategies, and contract risk mitigation
  • Resolve invoice, PO, and SOW discrepancies in partnership with Procurement
  • Ensure continuity of service and financial compliance
  • AI Opportunity: AI handles contract comparison, invoice validation, renewal alerts, and anomaly detection.
• Workforce Planning & Hiring Coordination
  • Maintain visibility into approved headcount, incremental requisitions, and hiring progress
  • Identify staffing risks tied to timing, approvals, or budget constraints
  • Partner with HR and leaders to ensure workforce plans remain aligned to strategy
  • AI Opportunity: AI provides live dashboards, aging risk alerts, and req integrity checks.
• Executive Operating Cadence & Governance
  • Own the cybersecurity executive rhythm (SMORs, AEM inputs, leadership reviews)
  • Ensure decision materials are timely, accurate, and outcome-focused
  • Track and drive closure of executive action items
  • AI Opportunity: AI automates action extraction, tracking, and deadline enforcement.
• Metrics, OKRs & Transparency
  • Own operational metrics and OKRs (financial, workforce, delivery)
  • Ensure clarity, consistency, and defensibility of reported data
  • Translate metrics into executive insight—not just status
  • AI Opportunity: AI aggregates data and drafts summaries; interpretation remains human.

AI-Enabled Operating Model

The role aspires to leverage AI to:

• Automate intake of spend requests, req updates, and action items
• Generate scenario models, variance analysis, and executive drafts
• Detect risks, anomalies, and missed dependencies early
• Reduce manual coordination and reporting overhead

Requirements

• Four-year or Graduate Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.
• Typically has 10+ years of work experience, preferably in strategic management, strategic planning and implementation, consulting, market research, or a related field.

Key Interfaces

• CISO and Cyber Leadership Team
• Finance, Procurement, HR
• Program and Domain Leaders (L3/L4)
• External vendors and partners

Skills

• Strategic, financially literate operator with strong executive presence
• Comfortable governing ambiguity and making tradeoff recommendations
• Curiosity and agency to scale function through automation and AI
• Trusted partner to senior leadership
• Enterprise financial planning, forecasting, and governance
• Vendor and contract management in complex environments
• Executive communications and decision framing
• Operational leadership with AI-enabled workflows
• Fortune 100 / large-scale enterprise experience strongly preferred

What This Role Is Not

• Not a transactional finance or procurement role
• Not a manual reporting or PMO role

Impact & Scope

Impacts large functions and leads large, cross-division functional teams or projects.

Complexity

Provides highly innovative solutions to complex problems within established policy.

Pay

The pay range for this role is $130,700 to $205,200 USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United States of America candidates only). Pay varies by work location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Long term/short term disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Generous time off policies, including:
  • 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
  • 11 paid holidays
  • Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave

Schedule

• Full time
• No shift premium (United States of America)
• Travel: 25%
• Relocation: Yes