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Senior Technical Program Manager

Rivian

Job Location:

Palo Alto, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer

Posted: 11 September 2026 (18 hours ago)

Application Deadline: 9 December 2026

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Title:Staff Technical Program Manager Cybersecurity
Location:Palo Alto CA (Hybrid)
Type:Contract
Duration:9 months initial term with conversion to full-time employment possible based on performance
Schedule:8-5 (1 hour non-billable lunch) Mon-Fri
JOB DESCRIPTION
About the role

Were looking for a Staff Technical Program Manager to drive delivery across our Enterprise Cybersecurity portfolio. Your first charter is our identity and access management (IAM) program anchored by a large-scale migration from Microsoft Entra ID to Okta but this is a portfolio role not a single-program role. As the identity program matures youll flex across the broader cybersecurity roadmap: security operations (SOC) governance/risk/compliance (GRC) vendor risk security awareness and whatever the function needs delivered next.
This role lives on relationships and prioritization as much as on plans. Youll coordinate across enterprise security infrastructure compliance legal endpoint/digital workplace and enterprise application teams; align our identity roadmap with the product security teams own identity projects; and manage external implementation partners keeping many threads moving visible and correctly sequenced against each other. If youre equally comfortable talking federation cutover sequencing with an IAM architect reconciling priorities across two security organizations and translating program risk into a crisp update for executive sponsors this role is for you.

What youll do

Own end-to-end program plans across the cybersecurity portfolio: scope milestones dependencies resourcing and critical path starting with the Entra ID Okta migration decomposing the multi-year identity vision into executable milestones.
Coordinate federation SSO provisioning and application onboarding workstreams sequencing cutovers and rollback/hypercare plans to protect business continuity and managing the external implementation partner through delivery.
Serve as the connective tissue between Enterprise Cybersecurity and the product security teams identity initiatives: maintain a shared view of roadmaps and dependencies surface collisions and overlaps early and broker sequencing and ownership decisions so the two portfolios reinforce rather than block each other.
Run the operating cadence planning status reporting RAID (risks actions issues decisions) tracking and stakeholder syncs across internal teams and external partners managing dependencies and controlling change in a fast-moving environment.
Drive cross-functional prioritization: build and maintain the relationships needed to get commitments from teams you dont manage negotiate trade-offs when workstreams compete for the same people and keep leadership equipped to make priority calls with current honest information.
Juggle multiple complex problems in parallel and find creative solutions with limited resources this is a lean team and the answer is rarely add headcount; its a smarter sequence a lighter-weight process or an unconventional path to the same outcome.
Drive governance of non-human identities service accounts service principals workload identities and API credentials spanning discovery ownership assignment and attestation least-privilege scoping rotation and decommissioning with full lifecycle (joiner/mover/leaver) coverage for human and non-human accounts.
Coordinate the identityendpoint seam with digital workplace and infrastructure teams: device trust conditional/adaptive access and device-posture signals informing access decisions.
Partner with compliance and audit teams to operationalize controls coordinate evidence collection and keep programs aligned to framework requirements (TISAX ISO 27001 NIST CSF/800-53).
Report up and down with equal fluency: help prepare the reports briefings and materials that keep executives sponsors and delivery teams aligned on the same priorities playing a pivotal role in the teams success by making its work visible understood and correctly prioritized.
Translate technical requirements into terms non-technical teams (legal procurement facilities HR business stakeholders) can act on communicating priorities so every team understands whats needed from them why and by when.
Maintain program artifacts and single sources of truth (roadmaps Gantt/status decks RACI action logs) in Jira Confluence and related tooling.
Manage vendor and contract touchpoints SOWs order forms and implementation-partner deliverables in coordination with procurement and legal.
Define and report program metrics (application migration progress service-account remediation cutover readiness milestone health) to measure and communicate delivery.

What youll bring

Bachelors degree in computer science information systems cybersecurity engineering or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of technical program or project management experience including 3 years delivering identity and/or security programs.
Direct experience running an enterprise IAM platform migration or consolidation involving Okta and/or Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD).
Working fluency (not necessarily hands-on configuration) in IAM/IGA/PAM concepts: SSO federation (SAML/OIDC) SCIM provisioning lifecycle management and least-privilege access models.
Breadth across cybersecurity domains beyond identity familiarity with security operations GRC/audit vendor risk or incident response sufficient to run programs credibly in those areas.
A track record of cross-organizational coordination: building trusted relationships across teams you dont manage aligning parallel roadmaps owned by different organizations and driving prioritization without formal authority.
Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional programs across technical and non-technical stakeholders in a matrixed environment including external implementation partners and vendors.
Strong written and verbal communication with the ability to report up to executives and down to delivery teams and to translate technical requirements into clear priorities and asks for non-technical audiences.
Fluency with program tooling Jira Confluence and slide/document production and a bias toward clear paste-ready artifacts.
Ability to juggle multiple complex problems simultaneously and find creative solutions with limited resources comfort operating in a lean fast-moving environment where you own execution end to end and resourcefulness beats headcount.

Nice to have

Experience in a TISAX ISO 27001 or NIST-regulated environment; automotive or enterprise-JV context a plus.
Experience coordinating between enterprise/corporate security and product security organizations.
Familiarity with non-human identity/service-account governance and secrets management concepts and tooling (e.g. 1Password CyberArk HashiCorp Vault).
Familiarity with IGA/governance platforms and PAM tooling; exposure to endpoint/UEM platforms (e.g. Microsoft Intune Jamf) and device-trust or passwordless approaches (FIDO2/passkeys conditional access).
Exposure to SOC tooling and operations (SIEM EDR detection engineering programs) or GRC platforms.
Relevant certifications: PMP CISSP Okta Certified Professional/Administrator Microsoft Identity & Access Administrator or Certified ScrumMaster.

Required Experience:

Senior IC

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