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CrowdStrike, Inc. Principal Consultant - Strategic Advisory Services (Remote) in Kirkland, Washington
CrowdStrike, Inc. Full time R20034 About the Role:
CrowdStrike's Strategic Advisory Services team assists our customers with a wide array of proactive engagements to help enhance security programs, educate employees, and develop tailored cyber initiatives. The Principal Consultant role is the leader on the ground. This role serves as the primary day-to-day lead for Strategic engagements, interacting with client leadership and ensuring that projects run on time and to our highest standards. Principal Consultants also assist our Strategic leadership team with staffing, thought leadership, business development, and other "back of office" tasks.
Am I a Strategic Principal Consultant Candidate?
Do you find yourself keeping up with the latest cyber breaches?
Do you want to help companies protect themselves against malicious adversaries?
Are you interested in learning your customer's maturity and pain points to develop a plan to improve?
Do you thrive on engaging with executive and senior management?
Are you comfortable being the face of the company and dealing with difficult client situations where necessary?
Are you ready to "do the work" while also supporting business line development activities?
Do you enjoy leading and working alongside a team of A-players?
Are you self-motivated and looking for an opportunity to rapidly accelerate your skills?
Do you crave new and innovative work that actually matters to your customer?
Do you have strong communication and writing skills?
Are you the smartest person on your current team? Would you prefer to engage peers who challenge you daily?
What You'll Do:
Lead large and complex strategic advisory service engagements, engaging with executive-level individuals across a wide range of industry segments.
Assess and develop cybersecurity and incident response programs in a proactive fashion to help mature the security posture of organizations prior to an incident.
Develop cutting-edge scenarios to help customers exercise the full range of their response capabilities.
Produce and ensure delivery of high-quality written and verbal reports, presentations, recommendations, and findings to customer management.
Demonstrate industry thought leadership through blog posts and public speaking events.
Identify and address emerging trends in cybersecurity, drawing on both government and private sector perspectives.
Manage internal programs and teams.
Engage in some degree of sales and business development opportunities.
Support staffing and scheduling of strategic resources on upcoming engagements.
What You'll Need: Successful candidates will have at least 8-15 years of experience in one or more of the following areas:
IT / Security Management Consulting: you've held leadership positions and owned relationships with organizational executives as a management or technical consultant. You've worked on a range of infosec and IT issues, including both technical cyber security (applying controls, improving architectures, etc.) and operational cyber security (organizational alignment, cyber policy review, etc.)
Security Program Development: you've personally contributed to the development, management, and implementation of a security program, helping organization build, enhance, or recalibrate their plans for a successful future-leaning security program. This may include aspects of developing a SOC, CSIRT, Fusion Center, or several security initiatives that support a centralized secur
