Senior Technical Project Manager (Compliance & Certifications)

About the Role

We are seeking a highly organized and detail-oriented Senior Technical Project Manager (Compliance & Certifications) to coordinate, manage, and drive our technical compliance, security, and industry certification initiatives. In this role, you will be the operational engine behind our compliance roadmap—managing the rigid timelines of external audits while aligning execution across internal software development, IT/TechOps, and business operations cycles. As a key member of our execution team, you will ensure that all compliance projects are structured, tracked, and reported in strict accordance with our corporate PMO Standards. You will directly own and manage the planning, tracking, and execution of our annual Media Rating Council (MRC) accreditation and SOC2 (Type 1 and Type 2) audits. This role provides the critical project management, compliance oversight, governance, and auditability necessary to keep all teams aligned and audit-ready.

Responsibilities

• PMO Standards Alignment: Manage and structure all compliance, security, and certification project plans, trackers, and document repositories in accordance with established PMO methodologies and guidelines.
• Standardized Status Reporting: Provide routine, structured progress reports, KPI dashboards, and project health updates (covering milestones, risks, and blockers) as defined by PMO reporting frameworks.
• Risk & Issue Escalation: Actively track dependencies and risks, executing formal escalation paths per PMO standards when compliance milestones are in jeopardy.
• Platform Management: Maintain up-to-date program trackers, schedules, and resource planning artifacts within central PMO tools (such as Asana or Jira) to ensure a single source of truth.
• Milestone & Critical Path Tracking: Establish clear, phase-gate project plans for upcoming audits, mapping out the critical path for audit readiness, dry-runs, evidence lock-down, and formal evaluation windows.
• Requirements Translation: Translate complex, rigid compliance controls (e.g., security protocols, data-filtering standards) into clear, actionable technical specifications, user stories, and development tasks.
• Engineering Alignment: Partner with Security, TechOps, Data, and Engineering teams to slot compliance-related tasks and vulnerability remediations into active development cycles (sprints or Kanban) without disrupting the core product roadmap.
• Cross-Functional Compliance Oversight: Oversee key operational controls managed by technical partner teams to ensure continuous audit readiness.
• Audit Liaison: Serve as the primary operational contact and liaison for external auditors and assessors (e.g., MRC, EY, SOC2 auditors), ensuring meetings, requests, and inquiries are managed efficiently.
• Evidence Management: Project manage the continuous gathering, formatting, and submission of technical evidence (configurations, access logs, architectural diagrams) required for SOC2 and MRC evaluations.
• Remediation Tracking: Monitor and drive the resolution of any compliance gaps, audit findings, or vulnerability remediation tasks identified during pre-audits or continuous monitoring.
• Audit Lifecycle Management: Project manage the end-to-end timeline for annual MRC audits, pre-assessment phases, and ongoing compliance reviews.
• Adtech & Measurement Standards: Coordinate engineering and product tasks related to data pipelines, measurement methodologies, and filtration logic