Senior Operations Facilitation Manager
Guidehouse · Arlington, VA · 4 days ago
On-siteManagementFull-time
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
- Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
- Discretionary Variable Incentive Bonus
- Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Basic Life & Supplemental Life
- 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