Mission Manager

Defense Unicorns

1d•$142,375 - $192,625•Remote

About The Position

As a Mission Manager for Cyber, you will collaborate with Cyber Tech Leads to establish a technical roadmap for Mission outcomes with Mission Heroes, and facilitate feedback from Delivery to Product. Defense Unicorns delivers mission value by streamlining software delivery so our customers can focus on the most important challenges. We share a vision of freedom and security for the advancement of progress and innovation. Our commitment to this vision, and to our mission-driven customers, means a commitment to speed, user experience and optionality, without compromising security. Our team is composed of innovators, software engineers, and veterans with decades of experience delivering technology programs across the federal market. We create and deliver secure solutions for continuous software integration and delivery. Defense Unicorns consolidates the best practices for security pipelines, testing, and deployment automation in order to meet the high security requirements valued by mission owners. Our solutions are agnostic by design and we believe that growing a robust ecosystem of secure, cloud-native software solutions can help enterprise customers inside and outside the federal market buy and integrate software more easily. Defense Unicorns’ customers are mission-focused leaders across public and private enterprises. We proudly support defense and civil agencies across the U.S. government and we work closely with the creators of leading-edge software solutions to deliver value to the mission-owner by improving the security and consumability of commercial software products.

Requirements

US Citizenship and ability to obtain TS/SCI clearance
Proficient in translating pain points to root cause problems and working with engineers to build a roadmap for value delivery
Proficient in modern software development processes and practices, including DevSecOps, Continuous Delivery, and User-Centered Design
Experience managing cross-functional engineering teams
Skilled in expectation management across different personas
Experience and passion for software delivery for Mission Success within the tech industry or Department of Defense
Exhibit enough technical depth to understand architectural decisions and translate in a way that stakeholders, users, and the team can understand and be aligned on

Nice To Haves

Active TS/SCI clearance
Located in the San Antonio, TX area
Expertise with modern software development processes and practices, including DevSecOps, Continuous Delivery, User-Centered Design, and Value Stream Architecture, and varying Agile frameworks; able to apply and adapt principles and ceremonies from different frameworks to suit the team, the product, and the mission objectives
Experience in military cybersecurity operations- offensive, defensive, or both
Experience dealing with Program Management Offices, DoD acquisitions, and government finances

Responsibilities

Serves as a lead Mission Manager for a Cyber Domain Delivery Effort.
Collaborates with Cyber Leads to establish technical roadmap for Mission Outcomes with Mission Heroes
Aligns Defense Unicorns’ Product Roadmaps to technical roadmap for your Hero and provides feedback to Product segment on Mission need dates for features to drive adoption
Share and facilitate feedback from Delivery segment with Product segment regarding Defense Unicorns’ OSS projects and productized services
Work with Tech Leads to established an aligned Delivery roadmap, using Product roadmaps
Follow company best practices in strategies for building Delivery solutions
Balance priorities from users, customers, stakeholders, and the team to deliver mission value in a scalable way
Understand the contract(s) for the Cyber Delivery Effort(s)
Assist with Mission Hero engagements for the contract process to start new work, continue work, or scale up work
Fosters an environment for Unicorn growth, mentorship, and coaching within the team
Fosters an environment for Defense Unicorns values and principles to thrive