Communications/Project Manager Role

Atlas

$100K — $120K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years in communications, project management, or agile delivery for complex technology initiatives.
  • Experience in global, remote, and interdependent team environments.
  • Familiarity with cybersecurity, risk, and compliance in regulated settings is preferred.
  • Strong skills in creating documentation and messaging for executive and stakeholder materials.
  • Proficient in managing project plans, backlogs, and delivery metrics.
  • Certification in Scrum or Project Management (CSM, PSM, PMP, PMI-ACP) is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and manage integrated communications and engagement plans for cybersecurity programs.
  • Lead communication efforts as project manager and scrum master to ensure smooth execution.
  • Simplify technical topics into clear messages for diverse audiences.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to define project scope, timelines, and risks.
  • Facilitate agile ceremonies and working sessions for team alignment.
  • Manage project deliverables, backlogs, and status reporting effectively.
  • Create executive updates and readiness materials to support communication efforts.

Benefits

  • Remote work flexibility.
  • Opportunity to lead and shape communications in cybersecurity initiatives.
  • Exposure to cutting-edge technology and risk management practices.
  • Collaborative work environment with diverse teams.
  • Professional development through project management and agile training opportunities.
Full Job Description
Role: Communications / PM/SM
Expertise Level: Senior

Work Location: Remote
Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop and manage integrated communications and stakeholder engagement plans for cybersecurity programs, product initiatives, and change rollouts.
  • Serve as communications lead, project manager, and scrum master to drive planning, execution, adoption readiness, and delivery discipline.
  • Translate complex cybersecurity, technology, risk, compliance, and delivery topics into clear messages for technical, business, and leadership audiences.
  • Partner with Product Owners, delivery teams, SMEs, risk/compliance partners, and stakeholders to define scope, timelines, dependencies, risks, impacts, and readiness needs.
  • Facilitate agile ceremonies, team working sessions, stakeholder reviews, and decision forums to maintain alignment and momentum.
  • Manage communication deliverables, project plans, backlogs, dependencies, risks, blockers, milestones, action items, and status reporting.
  • Create executive updates, leadership briefings, FAQs, talking points, readiness materials, and adoption content.
  • Track readiness, communication effectiveness, stakeholder engagement, adoption progress, delivery health, and mitigation actions.

Essential Skills & Knowledge:
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical, cybersecurity, risk, and delivery topics.
  • Proven ability to manage communications, stakeholder engagement, project delivery, and agile team execution in parallel.
  • Strong project management skills, including planning, prioritization, dependency management, risk management, issue resolution, and reporting.
  • Hands-on experience with Scrum, Kanban, agile ceremonies, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and continuous improvement.
  • Ability to build trusted relationships across technical teams, business partners, leadership, risk, compliance, and change stakeholders.
  • Experience developing executive-ready communications, leadership updates, readiness materials, FAQs, and stakeholder briefings.
  • Comfortable using collaboration, project management, and communication tools such as Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint, Jira, Confluence, Planner, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.

Qualifications:
  • 6+ years of experience in communications, project management, scrum master, agile delivery, change management, or a related role supporting complex technology initiatives.
  • Experience operating in complex, global, interdependent, and remote/distributed team environments.
  • Experience supporting cybersecurity, technology, risk, compliance, or regulated business environments preferred.
  • Strong technical written and verbal English, with comfort creating documentation, executive messaging, and stakeholder-facing materials.
  • Experience managing plans, backlogs, releases, dependencies, risks, issues, action items, and delivery metrics.
  • Scrum Master and/or Project Management certification, such as CSM, PSM, PMP, PMI-ACP, or equivalent, is a plus.

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