Project Manager Cyber Incident Response - NYC,NY - Onsite - W2/own corp

Location: New York City, NY - onsite

Lead cyber incident response initiatives, strengthen security resilience, and deliver impactful projects that help financial institutions prepare for, respond to, and recover from cybersecurity incidents.

You'll play a key role in managing cybersecurity incident response projects, coordinating incident response activities, and ensuring effective collaboration across security teams, business stakeholders, and senior leadership.

This role requires a combination of project management expertise and a solid understanding of cyber incident response processes. You'll help strengthen incident readiness, coordinate remediation initiatives, and ensure that cybersecurity projects are delivered effectively in a complex financial services environment.

What You ll Do

• Manage end-to-end cybersecurity projects focused on incident response, including project planning, timelines, deliverables, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder communication.
• Coordinate cyber incident response activities, working closely with cybersecurity teams to support incident identification, containment, investigation, remediation, and recovery.
• Oversee post-incident activities, including lessons learned, remediation plans, action tracking, and improvements to incident response processes.
• Facilitate collaboration between cybersecurity teams, business stakeholders, risk functions, and leadership to ensure effective communication and timely decision-making during cyber incidents.
• Maintain project governance, reporting, and documentation, ensuring incident response initiatives align with organizational security policies, regulatory requirements, and business priorities.

What We re Looking For

• Proven experience managing projects within cybersecurity, information security, or cyber risk environments.
• Experience supporting or coordinating cyber incident response activities, with an understanding of the incident response lifecycle.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, stakeholders, priorities, and deliverables in a complex organizational environment.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and organizational skills, including experience presenting project updates and incident-related information to senior stakeholders.
• Familiarity with project management methodologies, governance frameworks, and cybersecurity incident response processes.