Mission Operations Manager

Bridge Defense • Washington, DC

89d • Hybrid

About The Position

As Mission Operations Manager, you’ll enable mission success by translating customer needs into operational plans and orchestrating deployment of Bridge Defense systems in collaboration with mission users. You’ll be the bridge between strategy, engineering, and field operations to deliver critical, mission-ready solutions.

Requirements

• Current TS/SCI security clearance or eligibility and willingness to obtain one.
• 3–5 years in mission coordination, operations management, or field program roles, ideally in defense or government environments
• Comfort working in dynamic, high-stakes environments with tight timelines and shifting requirements
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills—able to lead cross-functional teams and interface effectively with government operators
• Excellent planning, prioritization, and crisis-management capabilities
• Ability to work on-site with government users, including classified or secure environments
• Mission-driven, adaptable, and able to thrive in fast-paced environments
• Experience working with government systems, classified environments, or highly regulated industries

Nice To Haves

• Prospective candidates should have strong risk management skills, excellent communication, teamwork, and conflict management skills.
• The candidate must be analytical and effectively able to prioritize needs, requirements, and other issues.
• Ability to communicate and interact effectively at all levels of staff and management.
• Ability to exercise independent judgment, develop relationships, and obtain consensus among interested parties.
• Critical thinker with strong technical skills, diagnostic skills and problem-solving ability.
• Solid written and verbal communication skills to negotiate direction, drive projects and projects to successful conclusion and deliver knowledge to team members verbally and via clear designs, runbooks and technical engineering and exchange sessions.
• Self-starter, flexible, adaptable, collaborative and motivated to champion continuous improvement.
• Ability to develop peer networks across an enterprise to maintain technology awareness and to support resolution of problems.
• Ability to operate across traditional technical boundaries, comfortable working in the compute space as well as the storage space in an operational capacity.
• Technically curious and driven to learn new skills.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the execution of mission-focused deployments across operational environments
• Translate strategic goals into tactical plans and operational workflows
• Lead operational teams—internal and external—to ensure smooth deployment and ongoing service delivery
• Act as the operational liaison between mission users, engineering, and leadership
• Monitor mission performance, iterate quickly, and apply lessons learned to future operations
• Work closely with government customers and stakeholders to understand mission requirements

What This Job Offers

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