Managing Consultant

🕒 September 5

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $100k - $185k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💼 Consultant

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IOActive, Inc.

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51 - 200 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

🚘 Automotive

🏥 Healthcare

Cybersecurity • Automotive • Healthcare

IOActive, Inc. is a trusted partner for Global 1000 enterprises, providing research-fueled security services across all industries. With a focus on SCADA and Industrial Security, Cloud, Mobile, IoT, and Automotive Security, IOActive offers specialized services including full stack penetration testing, program efficacy assessments, and hardware hacking. The company is known for its unique attacker’s perspective in client engagements, which maximizes security investments and improves overall security posture and business resiliency. They pride themselves on their commitment to quality client work and have a diverse clientele that includes major companies in sectors such as aerospace, healthcare, and finance.

📋 Description

• Lead technical scoping and requirements-gathering conversations with clients during the planning phase • Facilitate the Project Profitability Model process to establish project objectives, technical requirements, and level of effort • Assist in drafting Statements of Work, including service scope, deliverables, and responsibilities • Participate in client discussions alongside Business Development Managers to build tailored proposals • Coordinate with Project Managers to establish action plans, tasks, and ownership • Execute or oversee technical project-management tasks, including access requests, credential management, asset deployment, and sensor whitelisting • Identify and troubleshoot technical issues during project execution • Serve as a client point of contact for critical or urgent findings and testing notifications • Assume Project Manager duties when no Project Manager is assigned, including client follow-up, timesheet review, and project close-out • Review and approve reports before client delivery in partnership with the assigned Director • Serve as a subject matter expert on assigned projects, clients, or technical fields • Lead delivery of final reports and synthesize technical findings into actionable recommendations • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop solutions and improve service delivery • Maintain billable utilization at or below 25% when staffed as a regular consultant • Line-manage assigned Security Consultants through weekly check-ins and monthly one-on-ones • Mentor consultants and support their professional development and job satisfaction • Address consultant challenges and solicit feedback for annual performance reviews • Strengthen client relationships and identify client expansion opportunities • Act as the main point of contact for assigned clients • Collaborate with Directors on strategic initiatives and business objectives • Absorb day-to-day scoping, delivery-support, and consultant-management responsibilities to support Directors

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years in offensive security services, with substantial hands-on delivery experience across client engagements • Prior experience leading technical scoping, project coordination, or informal team leadership; formal people-management experience is a plus but not required • Strong technical background in at least one offensive security service line, including application security, red team, mobile security, security architecture, ICS/OT/SCADA, SDL, or related disciplines • Working familiarity across other offensive security service lines • Ability to translate technical findings into client-ready recommendations and support proposal and SoW development • Experience supporting or participating in the sales process, including scoping calls and level-of-effort estimation, preferred • Strong client-facing communication skills • Ability to balance hands-on consulting work, up to 25% billable, with scoping, sales support, and team-management responsibilities • Effective cross-functional collaboration with Directors, Project Managers, BDMs, and Security Consultants • Sound judgment in escalating critical findings and managing client-facing risk conversations • Experience mentoring and providing feedback to consultants, including through structured one-on-ones and performance reviews • Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to distill complex security concepts for technical and non-technical audiences • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent professional experience • Industry certifications preferred: OSCP, GPEN, GXPN, CISSP, CISA, CISM, or equivalent offensive security credentials • Willingness to travel approximately 25% for client engagements

🏖️ Benefits

• A chance to work with an industry leader in cyber security • Access to world-class technical teams and research • A high-energy, collaborative team that values innovation • Flexibility—work remotely or from the office as needed • Opportunities for travel • Competitive compensation

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