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[Remote] Manager, Technical Program Management (Cyber Security)

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Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Playlist is building a definitive platform for intentional living, connecting people with inspiring experiences in fitness, wellness, and beyond. The role of Manager, Technical Program Management in Cyber Security involves leading a team to coordinate and deliver cyber security and IT programs, ensuring alignment across various stakeholders and driving initiatives that reduce risk and enhance organizational performance.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow a team of Security and IT technical program managers, owning hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development
  • Own the Cyber Security and IT program management portfolio, setting how programs are scoped, prioritized, sequenced, and delivered across the org
  • Set the operating rhythm for the team across intake, prioritization, resourcing, and reporting, balancing competing programs against multi-quarter outcomes and risk reduction targets
  • Partner with Security and IT leadership to translate strategy into a prioritized program roadmap and a resourcing model that holds up under trade-offs
  • Represent portfolio status, risks, and trade-offs to executive stakeholders, and make the calls needed to keep delivery predictable
  • Build, standardize, and continuously improve the team’s playbooks, templates, and measurement systems so delivery quality does not depend on any one person
  • Surface and resolve enterprise-wide delivery risks, dependencies, and blockers across Security, IT, and Engineering
  • Maintain deep, evolving security domain fluency and apply it to guide the team, challenge trade-offs, and operate as a trusted technical liaison across Engineering, Security, and business stakeholders
  • Navigate ambiguity with a bias for action, stay creative and resourceful in problem solving, and ask questions early and often when working in new or unfamiliar systems or topics

Skills

  • 6-8+ years in program management, client services, management consulting, or a similar role at a technology company, including 2+ years directly managing people. Prior experience running Cyber Security or IT programs required
  • Track record of building, leading, and developing high-performing program or delivery teams
  • Deep expertise in program management best practices and tools, from initiation through planning, execution, monitoring, and closure, applied at portfolio scale
  • Strong technical aptitude with an ability to understand technical architectures and speak to system design, reliability and scalability challenges, and design trade-offs
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with experience interpreting and communicating technical requirements to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executives
  • Sets direction, makes trade-offs explicit, and holds a team accountable to outcomes and risk reduction targets
  • Strong understanding of information security frameworks (e.g., NIST, PCI-DSS, HITRUST, etc.) and the ability to communicate them to non-technical stakeholders is highly desirable

Benefits

  • The total compensation package for this position may also include a performance bonus, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans

Company Overview

  • Playlist is the parent company that operates various physical and mental fitness tech companies. It was founded in 2026, and is headquartered in San Luis Obispo, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.playlist.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Playlist has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2025. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.