Strategic Intelligence & Domestic Security Director

The MITRE Corporation•McLean, VA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Why choose between doing meaningful work and having a fulfilling life? At MITRE, you can have both. That's because MITRE people are committed to tackling our nation's toughest challenges—and we're committed to the long-term well-being of our employees. MITRE is different from most technology companies. We are a not-for-profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest, with no commercial conflicts to influence what we do. The R&D centers we operate for the government create lasting impact in fields as diverse as cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation. We're making a difference every day—working for a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and world. Our workplace reflects our values. We offer competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities for career growth, and a culture of innovation that embraces adaptability, collaboration, technical excellence, and people in partnership. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE - and make a difference with us. Department Summary: The MITRE Intelligence Center is seeking a Director for its Division focused on Strategic Intelligence and Domestic Security (N980). The N980 Division Director, reports to MITRE’s VP, Intelligence Center and serve as a member of the Intelligence Center senior leadership team and is based out of MITRE’s McLean campus. The N980 Division Director, is accountable for the leadership of the Division and the planning and implementation of MITRE’s work program in support of the government sponsor agencies and organizations. The N980 Division Director is responsible for the development and execution of the Division strategy, the sponsor relationship and the delivery and execution of the work program, to include project leadership and technical quality. The N980 Division Director will also partner with resource organizations to staff projects, drive internal R&D and apply MITRE’s integrated capabilities to the sponsor mission sets. The N980 Division Director will lead MITRE’s work programs in support of the missions and organizations of within the Intelligence Community and across the Department of Justice. These include cyber security; collection, exploitation and analysis; multi-domain operations; modeling and simulation; computer and analytic sciences; reverse engineering; automation; artificial intelligence, and machine learning. The successful candidate will have extensive experience managing an organization, a record of engagement at senior levels of the government, and the ability to operate and interact effectively in a large, complex, matrixed, and dynamic organizational context. S/he will have demonstrated outstanding and timely results in leading programs that have significant enterprise-wide impact, while building trusted relationships and exemplifying professionalism and MITRE’s values: commitment to the public interest mission, technical excellence that counts, people in partnership, and integrity above all else. As a technical thought leader, the N980 Division Director is expected to apply his/her areas of expertise and contribute to sponsor projects and corporate strategic initiatives.

Requirements

BS and 15 years of related experience
Deep working knowledge of the Division’s government sponsors.
Broad knowledge and familiarity with the US intelligence and national security community
Experience managing P&L for a portfolio of projects or programs, including meeting cost, schedule, performance, and quality for sponsor work.
Experience executing large complex endeavors from strategic, operational, and financial perspectives
Successful record of engagement, relationship-building, and collaboration with senior leaders in government and industry, in a complex national security environment.
Significant exposure to and experience solving mission-oriented challenges of government sponsors
Demonstrated ability to shape, develop and capture high-technology business pipelines for diverse national security sponsors, and demonstrated ability to manage technology research, development, and transition activities through the program life cycle
Demonstrated leadership or partnership with intelligence industry providers
Proven leadership skills managing and motivating employees, recruiting and building a top-performing, high-impact organization, growing and developing technical and leadership talent, and creating an inclusive environment
Excellent communication skills with all levels of sponsors and internal staff
Demonstrated ability to work across organizations and integrate efforts to achieve more impactful outcomes
Active TS/SCI Clearance with FS polygraph with sponsor high-side systems access
Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance
This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on site

Nice To Haves

Graduate degree (Masters or PhD) in the national security, engineering, computer science, physical sciences, mathematics, or comparable or related fields
Demonstrated leadership of programs that provide innovative solutions leading to game-changing capabilities

Responsibilities

Leading all aspects of the Division focused on Strategic Intelligence and Domestic Security P&L portfolio, to include demonstrating operational excellence in the execution of the existing work program.
Serving as a partner to the sponsors through thought leadership in critical mission areas.
Managing a large division with multiple sponsor and customer organizations.
Staff development and succession planning for future business/program leaders.
Identifying and anticipating major sponsor and environmental trends, opportunities, and issues; continually shaping the strategy and plan accordingly to achieve mission impact, critical outcomes, and enabling mission impact through our work program.
Leading executive-level engagements with sponsors and stakeholders to build trusted relationships across the Division’s Intelligence Community sponsors.
Shaping work to deliver mission impact and achieve sponsor mission and outcomes, including follow-on and new work for existing sponsors, and opportunities with new sponsors including U.S. organizations and international allies.
Informing and shaping MITRE research and innovation investments to enable future sponsor capabilities (in partnership with MITRE research organizations and the Division Chief Engineer)
Creating and implementing strategy for commercial capability acceleration and integration into future architectures and capabilities.
Collaborating and partnering with senior MITRE leadership in other Divisions and resource organizations to plan and align growth strategies in delivering sponsor solutions.
Building relationships, networks, and potentially new organizational constructs across MITRE driving cross-sponsor approaches to increase the value of the FFRDC Platform.
Developing and deploying cross-agency solutions to solve national security challenges.
Advancing support to DoW missions (in partnership with Mission Divisions and other Divisions), including enabling and leveraging cross-cutting capabilities and priorities, tactical intelligence, Golden Dome / IAMD, and integrated space warfighting.
Engage MATRIX leaders to bring new technology to sponsor mission applications, partner in strategy and work program development, and connect to sponsors and their needs to shape MATRIX strategies and roadmaps.
Leading, planning, and executing the work program to ensure mission impact and technical quality while bringing forward consistency, innovation, and best practices.
Overseeing technical and strategic quality of Division project plans, capabilities, and deliverables.
Estimating, informing, and meeting targets for revenue and delivery to MITRE sponsor.
Setting and managing overhead and indirect budgets for Division operations.
Managing new business acquisition expenditures including IR&D, market analysis, and bid & proposal (B&P).