Consultant – Cybersecurity

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee workstreams and selected projects related to cybersecurity and emerging AI risks.

• Assist interdisciplinary teams in navigating complex cybersecurity and AI risk initiatives, overseeing scope, timeline, resources, quality, and client satisfaction.

• Provide cybersecurity and AI maturity evaluations and strategic plans utilizing frameworks such as NIST, CIS, and CRI.

• Formulate cybersecurity strategies, operational models, and transformation initiatives.

• Aid in cyber and AI risk governance and prepare executive and board reports.

• Supervise third-party cyber and AI risks, bolster cyber resilience, ensure incident preparedness, and conduct executive tabletop exercises.

• Perform cybersecurity and AI benchmarking assessments, quantify cyber risks, and analyze business impacts.

• Convert technical and risk findings into insights for executives, discussing business implications and creating board-ready recommendations.

• Cultivate and enhance client relationships through technical expertise and strategic insight.

• Identify additional opportunities, assist in proposal development and pursuit efforts, and contribute to client account and practice expansion.

• Define and outline new cybersecurity and AI risk projects in collaboration with senior personnel and BRG leaders.

• Guide junior team members and contribute to coaching and team development efforts.

• Create methodologies, intellectual property, thought leadership materials, and market-facing propositions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Business Administration, Risk Management, or a related field.

• At least 4 years of professional experience in cybersecurity, technology risk, or enterprise risk consulting.

• Proven experience in leading consulting projects or complex cybersecurity/risk programs.

• Clear understanding of emerging AI governance, risk, and control requirements.

• Proficient in managing client relationships and communicating with senior executive stakeholders.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the capability to convey technical risks in business terms.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a talent for structuring ambiguous issues, synthesizing complex information, and proposing practical recommendations.

• Experience in designing or implementing AI governance or control frameworks such as NIST AI RMF, CRI FS AI RMF, or ISO/IEC 42001 is preferred.

• CISSP, CISM, CRISC, or another relevant advanced security or risk certification is preferred.

• Background in a Big 4 firm, specialist cybersecurity consultancy, or a comparable advisory firm is preferred.

• Experience in scoping and proposing cybersecurity and AI risk projects, with a track record of contributing to business development and sales is preferred.

• Proven history of executing enterprise cybersecurity transformations, large-scale governance programs, or risk-management implementations is preferred.

• Experience in presenting cybersecurity or technology-risk issues to executive leadership is preferred.

• Must be able to provide proof of legal right to work in the U.S. or Canada without company sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligible for bonuses.

• Equal opportunity employer.

• Reasonable accommodations available for essential job functions.