Technical Program Manager - Cyber Defense, Metrics and Business Intelligence (Cybersecurity)

Location: Houston, New York, San Francisco, or Seattle, United States

Base salary: $190,000–$225,000 USD per year, plus potential bonus, equity, and commission.

Company

Nscale provides GPU cloud infrastructure for AI startups and enterprise customers, supporting AI development, cost management, innovation, and environmental responsibility.

What you will do

• Lead security program delivery across cyber defense, incident response, security testing, detection, and compliance initiatives.
• Structure ambiguous programs with owners, milestones, dependencies, blockers, decision points, and remediation tracking.
• Define security metrics and build executive-ready dashboards covering delivery, coverage, control health, risk reduction, exceptions, evidence quality, and overdue work.
• Model security data across assets, users, devices, applications, findings, controls, tickets, evidence, owners, and remediation status.
• Establish operating rhythms, decision logs, intake and prioritization mechanisms, and lightweight governance processes.
• Coordinate security, IT, engineering, compliance, and operations teams while improving audit readiness and reporting efficiency.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in technical program management, security program management, business intelligence engineering, data analytics, security operations, or a related field.
• Experience working with security, IT, infrastructure, cloud, identity, cyber defense, GRC, or engineering teams during or adjacent to incident response activities.
• Strong skills in data modeling, metrics definition, dashboard design, and data quality management.
• Experience managing complex cross-functional programs with ambiguous requirements and multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to translate technical security details into clear executive-level reporting, with strong written communication, issue framing, decision tracking, and stakeholder management skills.
• Practical understanding of identity, endpoint security, vulnerability management, incident response, access control, logging, compliance, and risk management.

Nice to have

• Experience in a high-growth technology, cloud, infrastructure, AI, regulated, or customer-trust-sensitive environment.
• Experience with security dashboards, control-health reporting, risk registers, audit evidence views, operational scorecards, data pipelines, workflow automation, ticketing data, asset data, security telemetry, or compliance evidence.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, supportive, and innovative working environment focused on ownership, accountability, transparency, and urgency.
• Flexible workplace with autonomy over the working day.
• Performance reviews every 12 months and a progression plan supporting growth through critical cross-functional initiatives.
• Potential benefits include medical, dental, vision, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement plan participation.
• Compensation may include base salary, bonus, equity, and commission programs.