Pentest Coordinator

Job Description :

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Pentest Coordinator to support and coordinate penetration testing initiatives across the organization. This role combines project management, stakeholder coordination, and cybersecurity knowledge to ensure successful delivery of penetration testing activities. The successful candidate will manage multiple workstreams, collaborate with internal teams and external vendors, and drive process improvements through automation and AI-enabled solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate and manage penetration testing projects from initiation through completion.
• Define, track, and manage project timelines to ensure successful and timely delivery.
• Communicate project schedules, milestones, risks, and progress updates to stakeholders.                                                    
• Facilitate tracking of remediation activities for vulnerabilities discovered during penetration testing
• Ensure required inputs and dependencies for penetration testing activities are provided on time.
• Create and maintain project plans, status reports, meeting notes, risk logs, and project documentation.
• Monitor project scope, budget, timelines, and resource utilization.
• Facilitate meetings with internal stakeholders and external security vendors.
• Gather and analyze business and technical requirements for security assessments.
• Drive collaboration across Engineering, Product, Security, and cross-functional teams.
• Identify process improvement opportunities and implement automation and AI-driven efficiencies.
• Support a remote-first, outcome-focused working environment across global time zones.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Total experience 4+ years 
• 2+ years of experience in technical roles such as Penetration Testing, Application Security, Information Security, or Cybersecurity.
• Experience coordinating projects, workstreams, or security initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to translate technical concepts into business-friendly language.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams and external vendors.
• Strong organizational, documentation, and multitasking abilities.
• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel.
• Ability to work effectively across multiple time zones and global teams.
• Passion for automation, process optimization, and AI-driven innovation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in project management within cybersecurity or application security environments.
• Working knowledge of Azure DevOps and Power Automate
• Basic knowledge of Snowflake and Power BI.
• Experience coordinating penetration testing engagements with third-party vendors.
• Proven experience supporting distributed and remote teams.
• Project management certifications (PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, Scrum) are advantageous.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or a related field.

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What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

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