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IT & CyberSecurity Program Manager

Harbinger Motors

Job Location:

Garden Grove, CA - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 140000 - 180000

Posted: 29 September 2026 (2 days ago)

Application Deadline: 27 December 2026

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Harbinger

Harbinger is an American commercial electric vehicle (EV) company on a mission to transform an industry starving for innovation. Harbingers 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 teams 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 Youll 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

$140000 - $180000 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

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) Harbingers 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.

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