Senior Operations Facilitation Manager

About the role

The Senior Operations Facilitation Manager for Industry Partnerships serves as a trusted advisor and engagement lead, aligning private-sector partners, government cybersecurity stakeholders, technical teams, and cross-functional program leaders around shared cyber defense priorities and coordinated action.

Responsibilities

• Combine strong consulting, stakeholder-management, and strategic communication skills with substantive experience in cyber threat intelligence, security operations center processes, cyber incident response, and public-private cyber defense collaboration.
• Translate cyber threats, vulnerability, and incident information into decision-ready implications for executives and partner organizations.
• Lead coordination across industry partners, JCDC, CSD offices, and CISA stakeholders to advance shared priorities and improve alignment.
• Build and sustain trusted relationships with cybersecurity companies, technology providers, critical infrastructure organizations, and information sharing communities.
• Audit stakeholder needs, identify opportunities for collaboration, and recommend practical approaches for aligning government and industry capabilities.
• Design and facilitate planning sessions, working groups, executive discussions, and partner engagements that produce clear decisions and next steps.
• Synthesize technical, operational, and policy inputs into concise insights, options, and recommendations for leadership.
• Develop executive briefings, decision materials, talking points, strategic plans, roadmaps, and engagement products.
• Interpret policies, plans, directives, and leadership priorities and translate them into workstreams, milestones, deliverables, and action plans.
• Establish governance and action-tracking approaches to monitor commitments, risks, dependencies, decisions, and outcomes.
• Advise leadership on industry perspectives, stakeholder concerns, partnership opportunities, and barriers to execution.
• Engage technical and operational teams to understand threat activity, defensive needs, operational constraints, and opportunities for government-industry collaboration.

Requirements

• An ACTIVE and MAINTAINED "TOP SECRET" Federal or DoD security clearance
• Bachelor's degree
• Minimum eight (8) years of experience in cyber, consulting or related field
• Demonstrated knowledge of CTI concepts, analytic processes, intelligence products, and information sharing considerations
• Experience working with or supporting a SOC, cyber defense center, incident response team, threat intelligence function, or comparable operational environment
• Working knowledge of cyber incident response, defensive operations, and the roles of government and industry in collective cyber defense
• Significant experience in management consulting, strategic communications, program management, stakeholder engagement, or a related advisory role
• Experience supporting cybersecurity, technology, critical infrastructure, national security, or another complex mission environment
• Demonstrated success managing relationships with private-sector organizations and diverse stakeholder groups
• Ability to quickly understand complex technical and policy topics and communicate their business, operational, and strategic implications
• Experience developing executive briefings, strategic plans, roadmaps, decision papers, or comparable leadership products
• Strong facilitation, presentation, writing, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to structure ambiguous problems, develop practical recommendations, and move initiatives from concept through execution
• Ability to coordinate multiple organizations, priorities, and deliverables in a dynamic environment

Qualifications

• Experience integrating CTI, SOC, or incident-response perspectives into strategic planning, partnership initiatives, or executive decision support
• Familiarity with cybersecurity operations, cyber threat information, incident coordination, or critical infrastructure risk
• Experience advising senior government or private sector executives
• Experience establishing partnership strategies, governance models, or performance measures

Skills

• Knowledge of CTI production and dissemination
• Understanding of SOC workflows
• Experience with cyber incident response
• Experience with defensive operations

Benefits

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace. Benefits include medical, Rx, dental & vision insurance, personal and family sick time & company paid holidays, parental leave and adoption assistance, 401(k) retirement plan, basic life & supplemental life health, health savings account, dental/vision & dependent care flexible spending accounts, short-term & long-term disability, student loan paydown, tuition reimbursement, personal development & learning opportunities, skills development & certifications, employee referral program, corporate sponsored events & community outreach, emergency back-up childcare program, mobility stipend.