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ISRM Staff Program Manager

The ISRM Staff Program Manager is a critical and trusted role contributing to the preparedness and success of the ISRM department while ensuring key commitments are met. You will directly support the ISRM Department so that it can effectively and efficiently fulfill its mission. The ISRM Staff Program Manager will help drive the ISRM organization's resource plan, strategic agenda, priorities, and organizational change management while establishing and maintaining an operational rhythm for the organization and leveraging key relationships throughout the organization.

This is a hands-on role and requires a highly resourceful, self-driven individual with the ability to partner, execute, and lead through influence.

Position requires to be onsite full time in San Diego, 5 days a week. This position is not eligible for Qualcomm immigration sponsorship.

Minimum qualifications:

• 6+ years of cybersecurity-relevant work experience with a bachelor's degree in a relevant field (Cybersecurity, Computer Science, IT, Engineering, etc.) OR 8+ years of cybersecurity-relevant work experience without a bachelor's degree.
• 5+ years leadership experience.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in relevant field (Cybersecurity, Computer Science, IT, Engineering, Cryptography, etc.).
• Hands-on experience in one or more of the following: project/program management, cybersecurity functions such as: incident response, security operations monitoring, business risk analysis, security policy and standards development, threat modeling, adversarial testing (penetration testing, red/purple teaming), education and awareness, security architecture, identity and access management, or security control operations and deployment.
• 8+ years of cybersecurity-relevant work experience.
• 4+ years of IT-relevant work experience.

Summary:

• Leverage your Cybersecurity knowledge to act as a trusted advisor and execution partner to senior security leaders, helping translate strategy into actionable plans and bridging gaps between technical delivery, operating model readiness, and business outcomes.
• Serve as a key delegate for ISRM, representing leadership in operational and cross-functional forums and ensuring follow-through on leadership priorities.
• Support and streamline ISRM operating cadence by coordinating and integrating management reviews, service reviews, strategy sessions, and other ISRM forums.
• Drive execution discipline across ISRM, coordinating and tracking cybersecurity commitments and deliverables to ensure on-time delivery against strategic and regulatory objectives while balancing technical capability, operating model readiness, risk reduction, and business value realization.
• Coordinate cross-functional execution with ISRM partners to support enterprise initiatives, reinforce operating model principles, and enable effective decision-making.
• Operationalize and maintain the ISRM Service Ownership program, supporting definition of ownership expectations, governance processes, and periodic reporting to improve accountability, transparency, and risk visibility.
• Prepare ISRM department and executive-ready materials, including agendas, insights, action tracking, and leadership readouts, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and alignment with CISO messaging.
• Support structured organizational change management during periods of transformation, ensuring continuity, clarity, and alignment.

Pay range and other compensation & benefits: $159,000.00 - $238,400.00. The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.