Sr. Consultant - Strategy & Risk | Remote, USA

This position will be fully remote and can be hired anywhere in the continental U.S.Optiv's consultants are skilled technical and consultative resources expected to be strong in both technical and soft skills. The Sr. Consultant - Strategy & Risk, plays a key role in delivering security solutions, conducting risk and compliance assessments and supports client engagements. This position requires a balance of technical skills, strong risk management knowledge, and client facing consulting experience to help organizations improve their security posture and achieve compliance.How you'll make an impactSupport clients in assessing risks associated with artificial intelligence, including generative AI and third-party AI solutions, and develop actionable governance and risk mitigation recommendations.Assist clients in developing AI governance policies, acceptable-use standards, oversight processes, and controls aligned with their business objectives and risk management programs.Help clients strengthen governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) processes, including risk registers, control mapping, evidence collection, issue management, and remediation tracking.Lead strategic cybersecurity advisory engagements to assess current-state capabilities, define target-state operating models, and develop multi-year cybersecurity and GRC strategies, transformation roadmaps, and prioritized investment plans aligned with business risk and frameworks such as NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, and ISO 27001Advise clients on the design, development, and maturity of enterprise cybersecurity and GRC programs, including governance structures, risk frameworks, control environments, policies and standards, metrics, executive reporting, and program operating models.Design and mature insider risk programs by establishing governance, risk scenarios, monitoring and response processes, and cross-functional operating models that integrate cybersecurity, identity, data protection, HR, Legal, Privacy, and Complian