Managing Director Full Time NEW

Position: Managing Director

Role: Cyber Security

Service Line: Technology Risk

Employment Type: Permanent

Work Arrangement: Work from Office

Location: Gurgaon

About Us

Pierag is a global consulting firm with a unique business model that blends domestic proficiency with global expertise to serve clients globally. With a team of highly skilled professionals, we serve prominent clients across the US, India, UK, and Southeast Asia in the field of Accounting Advisory, Business Risk, Technology Risk, Assurance, ESG & Sustainability, Transaction Advisory, Tax and Digital.

We are a distinctive firm specializing in front-end consulting, GCC excellence, and PE/VC portfolio support and advisory.

Fuelled by our purpose of ‘Inspiring people to do things that Inspire them’ and driven by our values of ‘Excellence, Equity and Empathy’, we empower our team to deliver exceptional results for our clients.

Pierag was founded in February 2021 and was formerly known as Pierian – Assurance and Advisory Services.

We have our offices in Gurugram, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Washington DC, Melbourne, and Singapore.

About The Role

You will be part of and establishing a team of cybersecurity professionals focused on providing advisory to the Firm’s clients through several cybersecurity offerings.

Key Responsibilities

• Go-To-Market (GTM) and Business Development
• Strategy Execution: Develop and execute comprehensive GTM strategies to expand the Firm’s footprint in the cybersecurity domain across key industry verticals.
• Market Presence: Actively represent the Firm at industry events, conclaves, and roundtables to enhance brand visibility and lead the thought leadership initiatives.
• Pipeline Management: Lead the end-to-end sales cycle, from identifying potential clients and lead generation to proposal development and closing deals.
• Client Acquisition: Establish and maintain relationships with C-suite stakeholders (CISO, CIO, CTO) to understand their business challenges and position the Firm’s services.
• Solution Designing and Technical Excellence
• Innovation: Refine and develop service offerings aligned with emerging market trends like AI Security and Multi-Cloud environments.
• Subject Matter Expertise: Provide technical expertise to clients and while developing service solution across domains:
• Defensive Security: Incident Management and Threat Response.
• Offensive Security: Application Security (DAST/SAST), Penetration Testing, and Red Teaming.
• Infrastructure: Network security, NAC, WAF, Firewalls, and Zero Trust architectures.
• Cloud and AI: Multi-cloud security for AWS/Azure/GCP and technical frameworks for AI security/governance.
• Solutioning: Independently lead the architecture of complex cybersecurity solutions for clients, ensuring they address specific risk profiles.
• Partner Ecosystem and Alliances
• Strategic Alliances: Build and manage partnerships with leading cybersecurity technology OEMs.
• Vendor Management: Build and manage relationships with third-party service providers, where required, and ensuring timely and quality deliverables within project scope.
• Client Management and Project Delivery
• Trusted Advisor: Serve as the primary point of contact for senior client stakeholders, providing strategic inputs on cybersecurity challenges.
• Engagement Oversight: Lead project delivery by defining timelines, allocating resources, and managing project budgets.
• Risk and Quality: Oversee the quality of deliverables and ensuring they are as per client expectations.
• People Development and Leadership
• Talent Acquisition: Play a pivotal role in interviewing and hiring top-tier technical cybersecurity talent.
• Mentorship: Mentor and coach a team of technical professionals while fostering a culture of continuous learning.

Qualifications

Overall 14-17 years of experience in technical cybersecurity domain in a consulting / client facing role.

• B.Tech / BCA / MCA / MBA or relevant experience of 10 years.
• Certifications-

Mandatory: CISSP, OSCP / OSEP / OSWE etc.

Preferred: CCSP, ISO 27001, IAPP AI Governance Professional”Work Experience of 12+ years.

Technical

Skills & Competencies:

• Application security
• AI Security
• Cloud Security- Including strong understanding of either AWS / Azure ecosystem.

Functional

• Techno-commercial solutioning for approach notes, RFP / RFQ response
• Engagement / Project management
• Solution / Services designing

Mandatory Tools, Domain Expertise

• Tools: Linux Kali, BurpSuite, Nessus and similar tools.
• Domain: Technical Cybersecurity