Partner with Product Owners, delivery teams, SMEs, risk/compliance partners, and stakeholders to define scope, timelines, dependencies, risks, impacts, and readiness needs. Comfortable using collaboration, project management, and communication tools such as Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint, Jira, Confluence, Planner, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.

Role: Communications / PM/SM
Expertise Level: Senior
Work Location: Remote
Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and manage integrated communications and stakeholder engagement plans for cybersecurity programs, product initiatives, and change rollouts.
• Serve as communications lead, project manager, and scrum master to drive planning, execution, adoption readiness, and delivery discipline.
• Translate complex cybersecurity, technology, risk, compliance, and delivery topics into clear messages for technical, business, and leadership audiences.
• Partner with Product Owners, delivery teams, SMEs, risk/compliance partners, and stakeholders to define scope, timelines, dependencies, risks, impacts, and readiness needs.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies, team working sessions, stakeholder reviews, and decision forums to maintain alignment and momentum.
• Manage communication deliverables, project plans, backlogs, dependencies, risks, blockers, milestones, action items, and status reporting.
• Create executive updates, leadership briefings, FAQs, talking points, readiness materials, and adoption content.
• Track readiness, communication effectiveness, stakeholder engagement, adoption progress, delivery health, and mitigation actions.

Essential Skills & Knowledge:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical, cybersecurity, risk, and delivery topics.
• Proven ability to manage communications, stakeholder engagement, project delivery, and agile team execution in parallel.
• Strong project management skills, including planning, prioritization, dependency management, risk management, issue resolution, and reporting.
• Hands-on experience with Scrum, Kanban, agile ceremonies, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to build trusted relationships across technical teams, business partners, leadership, risk, compliance, and change stakeholders.
• Experience developing executive-ready communications, leadership updates, readiness materials, FAQs, and stakeholder briefings.
• Comfortable using collaboration, project management, and communication tools such as Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint, Jira, Confluence, Planner, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.

Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience in communications, project management, scrum master, agile delivery, change management, or a related role supporting complex technology initiatives.
• Experience operating in complex, global, interdependent, and remote/distributed team environments.
• Experience supporting cybersecurity, technology, risk, compliance, or regulated business environments preferred.
• Strong technical written and verbal English, with comfort creating documentation, executive messaging, and stakeholder-facing materials.
• Experience managing plans, backlogs, releases, dependencies, risks, issues, action items, and delivery metrics.
• Scrum Master and/or Project Management certification, such as CSM, PSM, PMP, PMI-ACP, or equivalent, is a plus.

Join Our Team at Atlas
Atlas is a global strategic consulting firm, focused on the Life Sciences industry. Our services include Management Consulting, Managed Services, and Agile Services. Global pharmaceutical companies and emerging players in life sciences depend on Atlas consultants to ensure they have the capabilities that will give them the ability to succeed. We are seeking Atlas IMPACT Makers who are ready to lead and innovate in dynamic environments. IMPACT Makers embody the principles of Atlas, driving transformative change and delivering outstanding results.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We value diversity and inclusion in our workplace and are committed to creating an environment where everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed