Cybersecurity Operations Manager Jobs in Spring, TX

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Cybersecurity Portfolio & Operations Lead (AIEnabled)

Role Purpose

This role owns cybersecurity financial governance, vendor and contract management, workforce planning coordination, and executive operating cadencefor a Fortune 50 cybersecurity organization.
The role aspires to operate with embedded AI supportto include automated intake, tracking, analysis, and executive reporting-allowing the leader to focus on judgment, prioritization, and executive decisionmaking.

Core Accountabilities (HumanOwned)

1. Financial & Investment Governance

• Own FY budget planning, forecasting, and runrate management across cybersecurity programs

• Frame executiveready investment decisions, tradeoffs, and risk implications

• Ensure spend aligns with enterprise guardrails and longterm cost discipline

• Serve as the decision integrator between Cyber, Finance, and Procurement

AI Opportunity: AI augments modeling, scenario analysis, and summaries; final decisions remain humanowned.

2. Vendor, Contract & Commercial Oversight

• Govern strategic vendor relationships (e.g., advisory, services, tooling)

• Own renewal timing, license optimization strategies, and contract risk mitigation

• Resolve invoice, PO, and SOW discrepancies in partnership with Procurement

• Ensure continuity of service and financial compliance

AI Opportunity: AI handles contract comparison, invoice validation, renewal alerts, and anomaly detection.

3. Workforce Planning & Hiring Coordination

• Maintain visibility into approved headcount, incremental requisitions, and hiring progress

• Identify staffing risks tied to timing, approvals, or budget constraints

• Partner with HR and leaders to ensure workforce plans remain aligned to strategy

AI Opportunity: AI provides live dashboards, aging risk alerts, and req integrity checks.

4. Executive Operating Cadence & Governance

• Own the cybersecurity executive rhythm (SMORs, AEM inputs, leadership reviews)

• Ensure decision materials are timely, accurate, and outcomefocused

• Track and drive closure of executive action items

AI Opportunity: AI automates action extraction, tracking, and deadline enforcement.

5. Metrics, OKRs & Transparency

• Own operational metrics and OKRs (financial, workforce, delivery)

• Ensure clarity, consistency, and defensibility of reported data

• Translate metrics into executive insight-not just status

AI Opportunity: AI Opportunity: AI aggregates data and drafts summaries; interpretation remains human.

AIEnabled Operating Model

The role aspires to leverage AIto:

• Automate intake of spend requests, req updates, and action items

• Generate scenario models, variance analysis, and executive drafts

• Detect risks, anomalies, and missed dependencies early

• Reduce manual coordination and reporting overhead

Key Interfaces

• CISO and Cyber Leadership Team

• Finance, Procurement, HR

• Program and Domain Leaders (L3/L4)

• External vendors and partners

Success Profile

• Strategic, financially literate operator with strong executive presence

• Comfortable governing ambiguity and making tradeoff recommendations

• Curiosity and agency to scale function through automation and AI

• Trusted partner to senior leadership

Critical Skills & Experience

• Enterprise financial planning, forecasting, and governance

• Vendor and contract management in complex environments

• Executive communications and decision framing

• Operational leadership with AIenabled workflows

• Fortune 100 / largescale enterprise experience strongly preferred

What This Role IsNot

• Not a transactional finance or procurement role

• Not a manual reporting or PMO role

Impact & Scope
Impacts large functions and leads large, cross-division functional teams or projects.
Complexity
Provides highly innovative solutions to complex problems within established policy.
Disclaimer
This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge, etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.

The pay range for this role is$130,700to$205,200USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United States of America candidates only). Pay varies by work location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Benefits:
HP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position, including:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Long term/short term disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Generous time off policies, including;
• 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
• 11 paid holidays
• Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave (US benefits overview)

The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.

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