Leads the IT and Cybersecurity roadmap by managing OKRs, project backlogs, cross-functional initiatives, change management, reporting, vendor implementations, and dependencies. Drives SOX ITGC, SOC 2, IPO-readiness, vulnerability management, access reviews, and vendor risk remediation. Partners with the IT Director and represents program status to executives, board members, and audit stakeholders.
About Harbinger
Harbinger is an American commercial electric vehicle (EV) company on a mission to transform an industry starving for innovation. Harbinger’s best-in-class team of EV, battery, and drivetrain experts have pooled their deep experience to bring a first-of-its-kind EV platform to support the growing demand for medium-duty EVs and Hybrids. Harbinger: Familiar Form, Revolutionary Foundation.
Role Summary
Harbinger is hiring an IT & Cybersecurity Program Manager to be the operational driver for the IT and Cybersecurity team's roadmap. This person will work side-by-side with the IT & Cybersecurity Director on a daily basis, turning strategy and OKRs into scoped, sequenced, and delivered initiatives.
What You'll Do:
- 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, keeping scope, timelines, dependencies, and risk visible
- Build and run the IT/Cyber change management program end to end
- Maintain the reporting and dashboards leadership needs to see program health at a glance
- 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 to 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
Who You Are:
Experience
- 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
Technical Competencies
- 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
Soft Skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication. Able to translate between technical detail and executive level summary
- Strong bias to action and follow-through. Comfortable being the person who drives a decision to closure rather than waiting for one
- Trusted, low-ego operator who can work in lockstep with the IT Director as a true partner
Key Benefits & Perks:
- Comprehensive Health, Dental & Vision (HDV) – 100% employee covered
- Early-stage Stock Options
- Robust Retirement Savings (401k, HSA, FSA)
- Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) & Parental Leave
- Annual Vacation Bonus
- Wellness & Fertility Benefits
- Cell Phone Stipend
- Complimentary Meals & Stocked Kitchens
California Pay Range
$140,000—$180,000 USD
Equal Opportunity
Harbinger is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Harbinger is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at [email protected].
Candidate Data Privacy
Harbinger may collect, use and disclose your personal information or personal data (within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws) when you apply for employment and/or participate in our recruitment processes (“Candidate Personal Data”). This data includes contact, demographic, communications, educational, professional, employment, social media/website, network/device, recruiting system usage/interaction, security and preference information. Harbinger may use your Candidate Personal Data for the purposes of (i) tracking interactions with our recruiting system; (ii) carrying out, analyzing and improving our application and recruitment process, including assessing you and your application and conducting employment, background and reference checks; (iii) establishing an employment relationship or entering into an employment contract with you; (iv) complying with our legal, regulatory and corporate governance obligations; (v) recordkeeping; (vi) ensuring network and information security and preventing fraud; and (vii) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.
Harbinger may share your Candidate Personal Data with (i) internal personnel who have a need to know such information in order to perform their duties, including individuals on our HR, legal, and finance teams, and the team(s) with the position(s) for which you are applying; (ii) Harbinger affiliates; and (iii) Harbinger’s service providers, including providers of background checks, staffing services, and cloud services.
Harbinger may transfer or store internationally your Candidate Personal Data, including to or in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union and in the cloud, and this data may be subject to the laws and accessible to the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities of such jurisdictions.
Please note that we are currently not accepting applications from third party application services. Any unsolicited resumes or candidate profiles submitted in response to our job posting shall be considered the property of Harbinger and are not subject to payment of referral or placement fees if any such candidate is later hired by Harbinger unless you have a signed written agreement in place with us which covers the applicable job posting.
Harbinger Garden Grove, California, USA Office
12821 Knott St, Garden Grove, CA, United States, 92841
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