Head of Cyber Missions

TRM Labs

1d • Remote

About The Position

As Head of Cyber Missions, you will build and lead TRM’s cyber mission practice from the ground up. This is not a traditional software-sales, deal-desk, advisory, or professional-services role. You will identify consequential cyber problems, develop an independent, first-principles perspective on how to solve them, find the customers and leaders with the authority to act, and turn those opportunities into large, executable mission programs. You will report directly to the CEO and help found TRM’s Mission Delivery organization.

Requirements

• 10+ years of meaningful cyber experience, with the credibility to sit on a panel at a leading cybersecurity conference as a genuine expert who can decompose cyber mission problems from first principles, not just speak the vocabulary.
• Demonstrated commercial ownership: you’ve personally sourced and scoped complex engagements of roughly $10M or more, and you can speak in detail to the outcome, the pricing and staffing assumptions, the risks, and the trade-offs you made.
• A track record of translating an ambitious mission outcome into a real delivery plan: staffing profiles, technology and data requirements, operating processes, decision rights, KPIs, and a practical launch.
• Founder-like behavior: you’ve repeatedly willed consequential things into existence, whether companies, products, practices, programs, or teams, and cut through institutional complexity to do what others thought unrealistic.
• Both private- and public-sector fluency, including meaningful experience selling to or operating within the U.S. government. Familiarity with federal contracting is strongly preferred.
• Enough technical fluency (deep engineering expertise not required) to understand TRM’s technology and data, match capabilities to customer needs, pressure-test proposed solutions, and collaborate closely with Product, Data, AI, and Engineering teams.
• Exceptional executive communication: you can explain an offering in 20 seconds, differentiate it in two to three minutes, and write customer-facing materials and original thought leadership that build trust with operators and senior leaders alike.
• Extremely low ego. You influence without authority, challenge senior leaders constructively, change your mind when the evidence changes, and care about the mission more than the credit.
• AI fluency. AI is already a meaningful part of how you research, synthesize, and build (analyses, prototypes, proposals, customer materials), with strong human quality control over the output.

Nice To Haves

• This role may be a fit if you… Lie awake thinking about how AI will change the balance of power between attackers and defenders, and what has to be rebuilt before adversaries can destroy societal trust at unprecedented speed and scale.
• Feel a personal sense of urgency about protecting the systems that let communities live normal lives: hospitals, water systems, financial infrastructure, communications networks, and public institutions.
• Already have strong opinions about where today’s approaches fall short against the hardest security problems.
• Believe cyber missions can’t be solved by software, consulting, government, or the private sector acting alone, and are excited to combine AI, proprietary data, expert tradecraft, and public-private partnerships to achieve outcomes none of them could reach independently.
• Don’t just read about emerging AI tools. You use them to build, investigate, synthesize, prototype, and test what’s newly possible, and you get impatient watching work done the slow way.
• Are equally comfortable discussing national cyber policy with a senator, pressure-testing strategy with a CISO, and working alongside analysts on an intelligence package that could lead to a real-world disruption.
• Want to be accountable for mission outcomes delivered, not tools sold or hours billed.
• Are as energized by developing a first-principles strategy as you are by spending ten hours in a war room turning it into a proposal, staffing plan, operating cadence, and executable program.
• Hear “that timeline is impossible” and, instead of arguing, quietly start building to show what’s possible.
• Have built something consequential from zero: a company, product, practice, offering, team, or mission program.
• Have owned a large, complex deal end to end, and years later can still recount the commercial trade-offs and assumptions you made.
• Have spent parts of your career frustrated by bureaucracy or artificial constraints used as reasons important outcomes couldn’t be achieved, and you’re motivated to work with the change-makers across our institutions to bring new approaches to critical missions.
• Would rather earn the respect of the operators behind the scenes than the applause of the audience from the stage.
• Want your next chapter to be the most consequential work of your career.

Responsibilities

• Develop TRM’s cyber mission perspective. Identify the most consequential cybercrime and cyber-resilience challenges facing public- and private-sector leaders, form original first-principles views on how they should be solved, publish regular cyber thought leadership, and represent TRM credibly with operators, executives, policymakers, and industry leaders.
• Source and qualify opportunities. Find the organizations facing high-priority cyber missions, build relationships with the buyers who have the authority, budget, and urgency to act, qualify the real opportunities, and hand formal commercial ownership to the right account executive. Priority buyers include national cyber-resilience agencies, critical-infrastructure CISOs and operators, and cyber units in federal and state law enforcement. Sales cycles commonly run 6 to 18 months.
• Shape and scope mission programs. Work with customers to define the mission outcomes TRM can own, the final scope, and the delivery model, distinguishing what existing technology can deliver from what requires custom product, data, or AI, and making sure every commitment is operationally credible.
• Build the commercial structure. Serve as a principal architect of the commercial approach across firm-fixed-price, time-and-materials, milestone, performance-based, and hybrid models, with a clear view of delivery risk, staffing assumptions, and scope boundaries.
• Launch new engagements. When needed, serve as the interim leader who moves an engagement from “won” to “operating”: assemble the team, establish operating rhythms, define KPIs tied to mission outcomes, and install the permanent operational leader before transitioning to an executive steering role.
• Build the practice. Turn each engagement into repeatable scoping, pricing, proposal, staffing, and launch models; recruit critical talent; influence TRM’s product, data, and AI roadmaps; and build enduring capabilities rather than one-off consulting projects.

Benefits

• TRM is a Series C company with $220M in total funding, backed by Blockchain Capital, Goldman Sachs, Bessemer, Y Combinator, Thoma Bravo, and others. Headquartered in San Francisco, TRM operates as a distributed-first company with hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Washington D.C., London, and Singapore.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed