Technical Project Manager

Summary

Join Cobalt's Pentest Operations team as a Technical Project Manager and help deliver high-quality penetration tests. You will act as a quality gatekeeper, ensuring technical accuracy and clear risk articulation. Responsibilities include monitoring test delivery, resolving obstacles, assembling pentester teams, maintaining feedback loops, and partnering with Customer Success Managers. The ideal candidate has 1-3+ years of relevant experience managing technical projects, a customer-first mentality, and excellent communication skills. Cobalt offers competitive compensation, equity, a pension program, health insurance (US/statutory EU), wellness stipends, work-from-home equipment stipends, learning & development stipends, flexible PTO, and paid parental leave.

Requirements

• 1-3+ years of relevant experience managing technical projects
• Customer first mentality, we succeed when they succeed
• Consulting mindset / operates with a sense of urgency
• Team player, excellent communicator, and dependable
• Professional demeanor over impersonal communication mediums (slack, email, etc.)
• Unparalleled attention to detail

Responsibilities

• Help be the gatekeeper of quality for all deliverables. From technical accuracy to ensuring clear risk articulation and practical remediation guidance
• Push the boundaries of the traditional pentest delivery lifecycle by continuously improving our process and platform
• Monitoring the delivery of active penetration tests from kickoff to report delivery and retest - ensuring customer and pentester needs are being met
• Escalate or immediately remove obstacles that arise during testing - ensuring swift resolution and smooth restoration of testing activity and customer satisfaction
• Assemble and schedule the strongest teams from the Cobalt Community to deliver pentesting as a service engagements
• Maintain a healthy feedback loop with Core Community managers to help grow and up-level our pentesters
• Partnering with Customer Success Managers to improve the client lifecycle experience

Preferred Qualifications

• German language proficiency (preferred)
• Pentest Operations experience
• PMI certifications are a plus, but not required

Benefits

• Grow in a passionate, rapidly expanding industry operating at the forefront of the Pentesting industry
• Work directly with experienced senior leaders with ongoing mentorship opportunities
• Earn competitive compensation and an attractive equity plan
• Save for the future with a pension program
• Benefit from medical, dental, vision and life insurance (US) or statutory healthcare (EU)
• Leverage stipends for: Wellness
• Work-from-home equipment & wifi
• Learning & development
• Make the most of our flexible, generous paid time off and paid parental leave