Department Manager, Advancing Cyber Technologies
Mitre
- Gaithersburg, MD
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Expand the impact of the division through targeted engagement with the executive sponsor, other government agencies, state/local/international organizations as well as industry.
- Shape the departments portfolio to ensure we are working on the Sponsors most pressing challenges and delivering impactful and actionable products.
- Partner across MITRE to identify relevant opportunities to connect Sponsors, work programs, and internal MITRE capabilities to advance Sponsor outcomes and increase efficiencies.
- Ensure department staff stay current in their knowledge of emerging trends and technologies through training, mentoring and strategic staffing.
- Make strategic hires for long term division needs
- Ensures delivery of regular, constructive feedback and developmental support to staff
- Identify strategic partnerships external to MITRE that can help increase impact and expand our capabilities
- Development of future MITRE leaders
- Identify capabilities, labs, and offerings to invest in to increase our ability to have impact
- Shape the organization to enhance our ability to create solutions to our Sponsors biggest challenges
- Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree; or 10 years and a master’s degree; or a PhD with 7 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
- Technical expertise and recognition in a branch of cybersecurity.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to articulate challenging technical concepts to both untrained and expert audiences.
- Inspires trust through vision for the program and the work environment they create; a demonstrated leader MITRE people want to follow.
- Can-do attitude and history of entrepreneurial success.
- Ability to exert meaningful influence over strategic decisions in complex, multi-stakeholder, and collaborative environments.
- Demonstrated track record in learning about and rapidly responding to new problems across a variety of domains.
- Demonstrated understanding of state of the art and best practices in cybersecurity and key technical communities outside of MITRE.
- Demonstrated proficiency in both virtual and live presentation of complex technical issues.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a DHS SCI/Fitness clearance within one year of employment.
- This position has an on-site requirement of 5 days a week on-site
- Ph.D. in computer science, engineering, cybersecurity related technical field or equivalent practical experience
- Ability to create, articulate, and motivate transformative concepts and outcomes and achieve practical outcomes in complex operational environments.
- Demonstrated expertise in broad areas of cybersecurity spanning across civil sectors and national security missions.
- Demonstrated track record in building strong internal and external partnerships.
- Experience with leveraging solutions from leading academic and commercial research groups.