Director, Operations and Strategy, Risk and Security

About the role

Pursue a career at Parsons where you can thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential.

Responsibilities

• Strategy: Serve as a strategic advisor and operational partner to the Risk and Security leadership team, working closely with the CSRO to advance strategic priorities.
• Roadmap Management: Drive the leadership rhythm of business, including planning and coordination for key engagements with business partners and other relevant stakeholders.
• Security Culture and Awareness: Lead and facilitate meetings with senior executives, drive security outreach and awareness efforts, and prepare executive briefings, decision memoranda, and board- or committee-ready materials while tracking commitments and follow-through.
• Executive Planning: Translate enterprise and security strategy into a multi-year roadmap, annual operating plan, and measurable operational initiatives.
• Operating Model Management: Oversee financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and cost transparency for the Risk and Security organization.
• Change, Communications, and Special Programs: Lead organizational change management for strategic Risk and Security programs to drive adoption and value realization.

Requirements

• Required Skills: Strategic planning and operating model design, portfolio, program, and PMO governance expertise, executive presence and organizational leadership, organizational design and operating model development, exceptional executive communication and executive storytelling, strong stakeholder influence and cross-functional facilitation skills, financial management, budgeting, forecasting, and cost transparency, strong judgment, discretion, and the ability to manage sensitive matters, ability to convert ambiguity into structure, action, and measurable outcomes, enterprise governance, financial acumen, risk-based prioritization.
• Desired Skills: Prior experience in a business operation, strategy and operations, or transformation role supporting senior executives, familiarity with security awareness and human risk management programs, experience with BISO or business-facing security engagement models, experience with vendor management and tooling oversight across platforms such as ServiceNow, Jira and JSM, PPM suites, and GRC platforms, experience with M and A diligence, Day 1 planning, and integration governance, education background in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Risk Management, Business Administration, or a related field, master's degree preferred, such as an MBA, MIS, Cybersecurity, or Risk Management discipline, experience 10+ years of progressively responsible leadership experience in cybersecurity, enterprise risk, technology, strategy, business operations, or related functions, experience partnering directly with C-suite executives to develop strategy, governance, operational planning, executive communications, and organizational execution, demonstrated success building operating models, governance forums, executive reporting, and portfolio management disciplines, experience supporting senior executives in a business operations, strategy and transformation role strongly preferred.