Project Manager

Reporting to Portfolio Director

About Packt

Packt's mission is to help the world put software to work in new ways, through the delivery of effective learning and information services to IT professionals. We are a technical publisher and learning provider with over 400 staff based across the globe, primarily in India and the UK. Our products have global relevance, and our multimedia portfolio includes over 7,000 books, e-books, audiobooks, and video courses. For more details, visit www.packtpub.com.

About the Cyber Security Vertical

The Cybersecurity vertical is Packt’s base for security practitioners, ethical hackers, defenders, auditors, and system protectors operating in an increasingly adversarial digital world. Our portfolio is built around the belief that effective security professionals don’t just learn tools, they develop a deep understanding of attacker mindsets, defensive strategies, and risk-based decision-making across systems, networks, and human factors.

Our top titles reflect this breadth and depth:

Core security foundations & certifications:

• CompTIA® Security+® SY0-701 Certification Guide
• CompTIA® SecurityX® CAS-005 Certification Guide
• CISA – Certified Information Systems Auditor Study Guide

Offensive security & hands-on practice:

• The Ultimate Kali Linux Book
• Linux Shell Scripting for Hackers
• Agentic AI for Offensive Cybersecurity

Defense, strategy & governance:

• Cybersecurity Strategy for the AI-Driven Era
• Human Factors in Cybersecurity

Advanced & emerging domains:

• Adversarial AI Attacks, Mitigations, and Defense Strategies
• Digital Forensics Cookbook

At the same time, we recognize that AI is reshaping cybersecurity at every layer from automated threat detection and SOC workflows to adversarial attacks powered by generative models.

Our mission is to stay at the forefront of that shift, ensuring our products prepare professionals not just to use security tools, but to anticipate threats, design resilient systems, and defend against evolving AI-driven attack vectors.

This vertical is for professionals who want to think like attackers, defend like strategists, and secure systems that operate at scale.

Role Overview

The Project Manager (PM) is a core member of the Operations team and is responsible for managing the progress of contracted projects, allocating work to the various stakeholders, and ensuring the delivery of a pipeline of books to agreed delivery dates without compromising book quality. 

Working on a catalogue of projects, the PM is responsible for creating, maintaining, and driving project schedules to ensure the timely publication of books/products. The PM is expected to adapt, prioritize, and re-organize project schedules based on challenges and opportunities associated with the products. A PM is responsible for managing the health of the pipeline working closely with the Program Manager and ensuring that book projects run as per schedule, thereby managing the end-to-end delivery of contracted book projects. A PM is expected to plan the production timelines and ensure that the book is published/a project completed as per plan.

In this capacity, you will also play a crucial role in nurturing and expanding our author and technical reviewer relationships, providing an environment that fosters creative freedom while maintaining rigorous project timelines. Your strategic oversight will ensure that all project deliverables align with our business objectives, driving continuous improvement and adaptation in our project management processes to meet evolving market demands.

Working at Packt – Shaping the Future of Tech Learning

Packt is a digital-first tech publisher on a mission to help the world put software to work. We've recently undergone a company-wide transformation to better serve tech professionals in a rapidly evolving, AI-powered world. Our business is now structured around small, agile vertical teams, each focused on a specific tech domain or topic area, that combine publishing, product, relationship leadership, and marketing capabilities to build tailored content and learning solutions.

This means we move fast, experiment often, and work closely with our audiences to understand what they need. We're looking for people who thrive in a collaborative, entrepreneurial environment and who are motivated by delivering real impact, whether through building innovative products, shaping insightful content, enabling smarter systems and operations, or building and sustaining strong relationships with expert contributors and communities.

If you're excited by meaningful work, curious about how technology is reshaping careers and industries, and want to be part of a mission-led team, Packt could be the right place for you.

What You Will Do

Key responsibilities:

• Manage title performance – in terms of publishing timelines, milestones, author satisfaction, and TR satisfaction 
• Ensure the projects worked on meet the Time to Market deadlines set by the Portfolio Directors
• Enhancing author and TR satisfaction and refining the author and TR experience while adhering to publishing schedules and maximizing commercial outcomes. 
• Implement advanced project management methodologies to enhance productivity and project timelines. Regularly evaluate project processes to identify risks and streamline publications, ensuring high standards of quality are met consistently. 
• Drive and execute strong, collaborative relationships with all stakeholders, including authors, publishing peers, and external collaborators, ensuring seamless communication and project coherence. 
• Problem solve, manage, and mitigate risks, when necessary, to keep authors, TRs, and book teams on schedule 
• Maintain the integrity of process and good practice at each stage in the publishing project. 
• Manage or refer conflicts between deadlines, processes, and quality, where appropriate. 

Who You Are

The work we do is fast paced, demanding, and intellectually challenging. We are looking for dynamic candidates with an interest in technology and in helping tech professionals to learn. You will need strong oral and written communication skills, attention to detail, and excellent organization and time-management skills. You will need to be proactive in troubleshooting and problem-solving, upbeat, enthusiastic, and motivated. You will be a demonstrated self-starter who is focused and calm under pressure.

Competencies

• Advanced Project Management: Demonstrate expertise in managing complex, large-scale projects with a strategic mindset towards problem-solving and project success. 
• Organisational and time-management skills: Involves the ability to prioritize tasks, manage resources efficiently, and meet deadlines to maintain productivity and achieve goals.
• Strategic Thinking and Adaptability: Strong analytical skills with the capacity to pivot strategy based on project demands and market changes, maintaining project alignment with broader business goals. 
• Communication skills: Excellent written and verbal communication with proficiency in English is a key tool for this role, as the PM is required to effectively communicate with internal and external stakeholders as and when required
• Interpersonal skills: The PM will be required to maintain long standing successful relations with authors and reviewers to develop high-quality content. Any conflicts between the stakeholders should be handled with expertise.

Qualifications: 

Experience: Bachelor’s degree in any field, technical will be preferable. More than 3 years of experience in project management, ideally within the publishing sector or a related field. 

Skills: Excellent organizational and technological skills, adept at using modern project management tools and methodologies, with strong mentoring and communication capabilities. 

Knowledge of latest Project Management tools and practices will be bonus.

Why Work at Packt

We are a global and remote-first business with most of our team based in India and the UK. We recognize how important our people are and acknowledge and support the things that are important to them. Our culture is open and informal and based around learning. We love sharing ideas and we want everyone to feel that they have an input into how the business works. We are a fun place to work but with a focus on performance and personal development providing opportunities for personal growth and career progression. We try to achieve this by:

• Ensuring a positive working environment for all team members, supportive of flexible and remote work.
• Supporting individual development through growth opportunities and internal mobility.
• Encouraging social collaboration within teams and communities and knowledge-sharing.
• Fostering a culture that supports a healthy work-life balance.

We focus on the full employee experience. We seek to achieve this by: 

• Providing a broad range of benefits and initiatives. 
• Advocating a healthy lifestyle where wellbeing is seen as an essential responsibility. 
• Celebrating success stories and encouraging peer-to-peer recognition. 
• Fostering a culture of self-development. 
• Providing a work environment where the best idea wins, and challenges are encouraged. 

Benefits: 
You will also have access to a range of flexible benefits that are designed to help you make the most of your time with us.

• Bonus scheme 
• 5 day working week
• 25 days annual holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Flexible hours: choose how, when, and where you work within India
• Training programs and Certification

Salary Range - INR 40K - 75K fixed pay per month (skills and/or experience dependent)

Disclaimer: Packt does not authorize any third-party consultancies, influencers, or agencies to offer employment opportunities on our behalf. We are not involved in any financial transactions with these parties. Our hiring process is managed internally, and all applications should be made through the official procedures outlined in our job listings.

Originally posted on Himalayas