Principal Cyber Operations Strategist

Department Summary

The MITRE’s Cyber Threat Intelligence department is seeking a Principal Cyber Operations Strategist to join our team and apply your skills in support of our government and private sector sponsors.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior-level strategist and trusted advisor providing objective, mission-focused expertise on cyber operations, cyber strategy, national security decision-making, and the policy, planning, and authority frameworks that shape cyber operations in practice.
• Advise sponsors, MITRE leadership, and technical teams on complex cyber mission problems, helping translate operational needs into analytically grounded strategies, research directions, and actionable recommendations.
• Provide strategic advisory support to the Center for Threat-Informed Defense (CTID), helping shape project concepts, research priorities, and engagement approaches that advance the CTID mission.
• Contribute to and help guide cross-functional project work, including framing research questions, reviewing analytic approaches, and connecting project outputs to real-world operational use.
• Support CTID’s membership development and strategic engagement activities by helping communicate mission value, cultivate trusted relationships, and identify opportunities for deeper collaboration with government, industry, and other mission-aligned stakeholders.
• Engage across MITRE’s sponsor, partner, and member ecosystem to bring together perspectives from government, industry, and academia in support of cybersecurity innovation, operational relevance, and broader national impact.
• Advance international cybersecurity collaboration by working with partners and multinational stakeholders on shared cyber challenges, operational concepts, and approaches that strengthen collective cyber resilience and cooperation.
• Author, review, and refine high-impact written products, briefings, and other publicly available deliverables for senior technical, operational, and policy audiences.
• Represent MITRE in workshops, working groups, and other engagements requiring sound technical judgment, credibility with senior stakeholders, and the ability to bridge strategic, operational, and technical perspectives.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of relevant experience in cyber operations, cybersecurity, and working for or with U.S. government cyber agencies.
• Demonstrated experience working for or with U.S. government organizations on cyber, defense, intelligence, or national security issues, including familiarity with the missions, authorities, and interrelationships of key stakeholders.
• Knowledge of adversary and friendly tradecraft and the utilization of cyber operations as a tool of military force and statecraft.
• Experience with U.S. government cybersecurity agencies, authorities, and relationships.
• Demonstrated ability to provide objective analysis, independent technical judgment, and well-supported recommendations on complex mission challenges involving strategic, operational, and policy dimensions.
• Experience advising senior leaders, program teams, or sponsors and helping shape direction on technically and organizationally complex efforts without relying on direct supervisory authority.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce clear, concise, and well-structured products for senior government, technical, and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively across organizational boundaries and to convene or collaborate with stakeholders from government, industry, academia, and other mission partners.
• This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience operating in an FFRDC, UARC, non-profit R&D, or similarly mission-driven environment that values objectivity, long-term sponsor relationships, and freedom from organizational conflicts of interest.
• Experience with membership development, sponsor engagement, strategic partnerships, or ecosystem-building in support of cybersecurity research, innovation, or operational collaboration.
• Experience engaging internationally on cybersecurity strategy, cyber cooperation, or multinational mission initiatives involving allied and partner nations.
• Experience supporting international cyber capacity-building activities, including strategy development, stakeholder coordination, partner engagement, or institutional capability development.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of relevant experience in cyber operations, cybersecurity, and working for or with U.S. government cyber agencies.
• Demonstrated experience working for or with U.S. government organizations on cyber, defense, intelligence, or national security issues, including familiarity with the missions, authorities, and interrelationships of key stakeholders.
• Knowledge of adversary and friendly tradecraft and the utilization of cyber operations as a tool of military force and statecraft.
• Experience with U.S. government cybersecurity agencies, authorities, and relationships.
• Demonstrated ability to provide objective analysis, independent technical judgment, and well-supported recommendations on complex mission challenges involving strategic, operational, and policy dimensions.
• Experience advising senior leaders, program teams, or sponsors and helping shape direction on technically and organizationally complex efforts without relying on direct supervisory authority.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce clear, concise, and well-structured products for senior government, technical, and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively across organizational boundaries and to convene or collaborate with stakeholders from government, industry, academia, and other mission partners.
• This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site.

Benefits

MITRE offers competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities for career growth, and a culture of innovation that embraces adaptability, collaboration, technical excellence, and people in partnership.