Mission Integrator Senior Principal

Roles & Responsibilities

• Serve as a core member of the Division leadership team, working to implement division and department strategies; furthering sponsor outcomes; and orienting AI, Autonomy and Data investments toward immediate sponsor impact.
• Provide subject matter expertise to key government leaders and drive bold and innovative solutions.
• Work with division technical staff to shape division priorities, integrate capabilities, and drive cross-MITRE impact.
• Lead high-visibility projects across the division, pulling in the right technical talent to achieve outcomes, and being the bridge between technical staff and sponsors.
• Cook up relationships with senior leaders in sponsor organizations with the goal of serving as trusted advisor and shaping work programs to achieve strategic goals.
• Cook with other MITRE organizations to provide necessary skills and expertise to address sponsor outcomes.
• Develop and grow the next generation of leadership (thought leaders, project leaders, and people leaders) through coaching, mentoring, and targeted development opportunities.

Basic Qualifications

• 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.
• Active TS/SCI Clearance.
• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Demonstrated understanding of how AI, Autonomy and Data are critical to sponsor missions and how they will evolve over time.
• Demonstrated technical understanding of limitations, state-of-the-art, and opportunities with commercial AI and Autonomy solutions that MITRE can bring to address sponsor needs.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively at high levels within MITRE sponsor and potential sponsor organizations, including identifying and cultivating new opportunities.
• Demonstrated understanding of the organizational structures, missions, and priorities of the DoW, Combatant Commands, Service Components, and Combat Support Agencies, enabling cross-organizational partnerships and cross-sponsor mission impact.
• Demonstrated success engaging senior sponsors, achieving impactful outcomes, and establishing and maintaining strategic partnerships.
• Established track record in leading the delivery of data-driven technical products within the military warfighting domain or closely related national security domain, resulting in measurable mission impact.
• Demonstrated ability to build technical teams and organize to achieve mission outcomes.
• Strong critical thinking, analytic, and problem-solving skills; comfortable working in dynamic environments where objectives evolve, must be shaped, or require creative solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to work in an interdisciplinary team environment, establish and leverage a diverse professional network, and integrate contributions from a variety of resources (people, tools, organizations).
• Must have an active Top Secret/SCI U.S Government issued Security Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduate degree (Master’s or PhD).
• Experience leading AI and Autonomy analytical/assessment efforts with impactful results in senior levels of government and/or industry.
• Demonstrated ability to take informed risk, lead work with partial or evolving insights, and operate effectively with a high degree of autonomy.
• Understanding of portfolio management principles or techniques, demonstrating an ability to conduct effective tradeoff analysis of cost, schedule, and performance impacts to develop and prioritize recommendations.
• Demonstrated leadership of projects that provide innovative solutions leading to game-changing capabilities.
• Demonstrated technical depth/domain knowledge and leadership in fields applicable to AI, Autonomy and Data.
• Demonstrated ability to work across organizational units in a shared leadership model to integrate efforts to achieve more impactful outcomes.
• Significant experience addressing mission-oriented challenges for national security sponsors, with a record of successful engagement, relationship building, and collaboration.