Cyber Assurance Manager

The Manager, Cyber Assurance is responsible for establishing, leading, and continuously maturing the enterprise cybersecurity continuous control testing program. This role oversees the strategy, governance, execution, and continuous improvement of assurance activities designed to evaluate the effectiveness of cybersecurity controls, identify control deficiencies and control drift, and validate alignment with enterprise security policies, standards, regulatory requirements, and risk management objectives.

The Manager leads a team of cybersecurity professionals responsible for planning and executing technical control assessments, control effectiveness reviews, assurance testing, reporting, and remediation oversight across the cybersecurity control environment. This role also provides leadership for talent acquisition, workforce development, documentation management, program governance, metrics, reporting, and stakeholder engagement to help maintain a strong and resilient cybersecurity posture.

This position is ideal for a cybersecurity assurance leader who understands how to build and deliver risk informed assurance over cybersecurity controls while continuously improving enterprise cyber resilience.

Candidates must be willing to work a hybrid schedule of 4 days onsite and 1 day remote per week. Remote work is not available for this position.

Eligible hub locations include:

• Phoenix, AZ
• Charlotte, NC
• Johnston, RI
• Boston, MA
• Westwood, MA
• Marlton, NJ
• Irving, TX

• Lead the strategy, governance, maturity, and continuous improvement of the Cyber Security Assurance Program aligned to enterprise cybersecurity, risk, and resilience objectives.
• Oversee planning, execution, and quality assurance of cybersecurity control testing to validate control design, implementation, and operating effectiveness.
• Define and govern critical asset identification, enhanced control requirements, and assurance activities for the organization's most critical assets.
• Establish and maintain assurance methodologies, standards, testing frameworks, documentation, and quality controls to ensure consistency, repeatability, and audit readiness.
• Monitor threats, emerging technologies, regulatory developments, and business changes to identify impacts to the control environment and assurance strategy.
• Define and report key performance indicators, key risk indicators, control effectiveness measures, testing coverage, and maturity metrics to demonstrate program performance and risk posture.
• Oversee the development of assurance reports, executive dashboards, findings, trend analysis, and recommendations that drive informed decision making and continuous improvement.
• Ensure control deficiencies, control drift, failures, and related risks are documented, tracked, remediated, and validated through sustainable resolution.
• Lead and develop a high performing team through workforce planning, hiring, coaching, mentoring, succession planning, and career development.
• Partner with Technology, Risk, Compliance, control owners, and business stakeholders to align assurance activities with enterprise priorities and regulatory expectations.

• Bachelor's Degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 8 to 12 years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, cyber risk, cybersecurity assurance, controls testing, audit, or related disciplines.
• 3 or more years of people leadership experience managing cybersecurity assurance, controls, risk, or audit professionals.
• Experience assessing, testing, and validating cybersecurity controls across technology environments.
• Strong understanding…