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IT & CyberSecurity Program Manager

Harbinger Motors - Garden Grove, CA, United States - In-office - posted 2026-08-27

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Salary: USD 140,000 - 180,000 / annual

Harbinger Motors is an American commercial electric vehicle (EV) company transforming the medium-duty EV and hybrid market. The company is seeking an IT & Cybersecurity Program Manager to serve as the operational driver for the IT and Cybersecurity team's roadmap, working closely with the IT & Cybersecurity Director to translate strategy and OKRs into scoped, sequenced, and delivered initiatives. Key Responsibilities: - Own the quarterly OKR and project backlog process with the IT Director, scoring, sequencing, and staffing initiatives against team capacity and budget - Drive cross-project initiatives spanning IT Engineering, Cybersecurity, and Operations, maintaining visibility of scope, timelines, dependencies, and risk - Build and run the IT/Cyber change management program end to end - Maintain reporting and dashboards that provide leadership with clear visibility into program health - Drive the SOX ITGC, SOC 2, and IPO-readiness security roadmap, including remediation of risk assessment and penetration test findings - Track vulnerability management, access reviews, and vendor risk assessments against SLAs with Cybersecurity - Lead vendor evaluations and system implementations from requirements through go-live and beyond - Facilitate planning and resolve cross-team dependencies across IT/Cyber and partner functions (Engineering, Operations, People Ops, Legal, Finance) - Represent IT/Cyber program status to executive, board, and audit stakeholders as needed The ideal candidate will be a trusted, low-ego operator who can work in lockstep with the IT Director as a true partner. You will need excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate between technical detail and executive-level summaries. A strong bias toward action and follow-through is essential—you should be comfortable being the person who drives decisions to closure. Requirements: - 5+ years in a technical program/project management role within IT and/or Information Security, ideally including at least one SOX/SOC 2 audit cycle or comparable compliance program - Experience running programs in a fast-paced, high-growth, or pre-IPO environment strongly preferred - Strong working knowledge of IT infrastructure, enterprise applications, and security fundamentals (identity/access management, network segmentation, vulnerability management) sufficient to make informed scoping and design tradeoffs - Advanced Jira and Confluence usage: workflows, automation rules, JQL, dashboards, cross-project linking - Familiarity with change management/ITIL practices and SOX ITGC or SOC 2 control frameworks - Comfortable reading vendor documentation, RFP responses, and security assessments critically

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