Strategic Advisory Services Principal Consultant (Remote, SAU)

Role Overview

Strategic Advisory Services Principal Consultant (Remote, SAU) at CrowdStrike. This is a remote position supporting the Strategic Advisory Services team.

Company Overview

CrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity that protects the people, processes, and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, the mission has been to stop breaches. The company has redefined modern security with an AI-native platform, processing almost 3 trillion events per day. CrowdStrike's customers span all industries and rely on the company to keep their businesses running, their communities safe, and their lives moving forward.

Role Purpose

The Strategic Advisory Services team assists customers with proactive engagements to enhance security programs, educate employees, and develop tailored cyber initiatives. As a Principal Consultant, you will be one of the primary contributors to engagement delivery, focusing on task-oriented activities, reporting, and supporting engagement leadership to ensure projects are performed on time and to the highest standards.

Key Responsibilities

Engagement Delivery

• Lead and contribute to the delivery of large and complex strategic advisory service engagements, engaging with management and 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.

Thought Leadership & Strategy

• Identify and address emerging trends in cybersecurity, drawing on both government and private sector perspectives.
• Contribute thought leadership and experiences to internal programs and teams.
• Represent CrowdStrike in external industry events and thought leadership opportunities.

Qualifications & Experience

Successful candidates will have at least 5–6 years of experience in one or more of the following areas:

• IT / Security Management Consulting: held leadership positions and owned relationships with organizational executives as a management or technical consultant; 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: personally contributed to the development, management, and implementation of a security program, helping organizations build, enhance, or recalibrate their plans for a successful future-leaning security program, which may include aspects of developing a SOC, CSIRT, Fusion Center, or several security initiatives that support a centralized security function.
• Security Analysis / Operations: held leadership or key delivery positions in organizations or on teams that focus on organizational security (such as SOCs, IR teams, etc.); understand cybersecurity from a practitioner standpoint and how to consolidate and communicate results to senior leaders.
• Business Strategy / Risk Analysis: helped businesses address a range of risks, including cyber risks, across their organization; familiar with how organizational risk frameworks are developed; experienced in helping organizations improve and apply their risk frameworks to address cyber risks.
• Cybersecurity Policy: been responsible for developing new policies or enhancing existing policies that inform how private or government organizations perform and manage various cyber security activities; played a key role in developing policies, plans, and/or playbooks focusing on cyber security activities and ideally been part of the process of transitioning these plans into practice within an organization.
• Public / Government Affairs: significant experience helping government organizations, or entities that work closely with governments, refine cyber security priorities and communicate clearly about these priorities; highly experienced in working across various sets of technical and non-technical stakeholders in an organization to develop defensible, actionable priorities and plans for improving cyber security.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Math, Information Security, Information Assurance, Information Security Management, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Policy, Public Policy, Intelligence Studies, or a related discipline preferred.
• Additional consideration for Master's degrees.
• Applicants without a degree but with relevant military or work experience and/or training will be considered.

Skills & Competencies

• Native or fluent in Arabic and English.
• Exceptional written and verbal communications skills, specifically in fast-paced professional environments.
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships with a wide range of customers and team members.
• Capable of completing complex tasks involving strategic analysis and development without supervision.
• Exceptional ability to forge and grow professional relationships with clients across different industries.
• Strong time management skills, including the ability to complete tasks for multiple projects simultaneously.
• Self-motivated and able to work independently as well as with a team.
• Desire to grow and expand cyber aptitude, technical awareness, and soft skills.
• Consistent positive work environment and attitude.

Additional Information

• Ability to travel to engage with clients, up to 30% of the time, often on less than three weeks' notice.
• Market leader in compensation and equity awards.
• Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs.
• Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge.
• Paid parental and adoption leaves.
• Professional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role.
• Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections.
• Vibrant office culture with world class amenities.
• Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe.
• CrowdStrike is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a culture of belonging where everyone is valued for who they are and empowered to succeed.
• Supports veterans and individuals with disabilities through an affirmative action program.