Mission Manager - Air & Space Forces

Company: Defense Unicorns
Location: Remote - USA
Salary: $118,150—$159,850 USD

About Defense Unicorns:
Defense Unicorns delivers mission value by streamlining software delivery so our customers can focus on the most important challenges. We share a vision of freedom and security for the advancement of progress and innovation. Our commitment to this vision, and to our mission-driven customers, means a commitment to speed, user experience and optionality, without compromising security. Our team is composed of innovators, software engineers, and veterans with decades of experience delivering technology programs across the federal market.

What We Do:
We create and deliver secure solutions for continuous software integration and delivery. Defense Unicorns consolidates the best practices for security pipelines, testing, and deployment automation in order to meet the high security requirements valued by mission owners. Our solutions are agnostic by design and we believe that growing a robust ecosystem of secure, cloud-native software solutions can help enterprise customers inside and outside the federal market buy and integrate software more easily.

Who We Serve:
Defense Unicorns’ customers are mission-focused leaders across public and private enterprises. We proudly support defense and civil agencies across the U.S. government and we work closely with the creators of leading-edge software solutions to deliver value to the mission-owner by improving the security and consumability of commercial software products.

About the Role:
As a Mission Manager within the Air & Space Forces domain, you will collaborate with DAF Tech Lead and Fleet Tech Lead to establish a technical roadmap for Mission outcomes with Mission Heroes, and facilitate feedback from Delivery to Product.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as Mission Manager for assigned Delivery Effort.
• Collaborate with Domain Tech Lead and Vertical Tech Lead to establish a technical roadmap for Mission Outcomes with Mission Heroes.
• Align Defense Unicorns’ Product Roadmaps to the technical roadmap for your Hero and provide feedback to the Product segment on Mission Need dates for features to drive adoption.
• Share and facilitate feedback from the Delivery segment with the Product segment regarding Defense Unicorns’ OSS projects and productized services.
• Work with Tech Leads to establish an aligned Delivery roadmap, using Product roadmaps.
• Follow company best practices in strategies for building Delivery solutions.
• Balance priorities from users, customers, stakeholders, and the team to deliver mission value in a scalable way.
• Foster an environment for Unicorn growth, mentorship, and coaching within the team.
• Foster an environment for Defense Unicorns values and principles to thrive.

What We Work On:

• Kubernetes
• Cloud Environments (AWS/GCP and Azure)
• Infrastructure-as-code (like Terraform/Pulumi)
• Continuous Delivery and automation tooling
• GitOps
• Containers
• CNCF projects and open source products and packages
• Helm/Kustomize-Value Stream Mapping
• Building and improving security delivery
• Building Kubernetes and cloud-native applications

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficient in translating pain points to root cause problems and working with engineers to build a roadmap for value delivery.
• Proficient in modern software development processes and practices, including DevSecOps, Continuous Delivery, and User-Centered Design.
• Experience managing cross-functional engineering teams.
• Skilled in expectation management across different personas.
• Experience and passion for software delivery for Mission Success within the tech industry or Department of Defense.
• Familiarity with federal government contracts, procurement vehicles, and budget processes.
• Exhibit enough technical depth to understand architectural decisions and translate them in a way that stakeholders, users, and the team can understand and be aligned on.

Travel Expectations: 4-12 times per year.

Benefits:

• Health: Medical/Dental/Vision (Premiums 100% Company Paid), Health Savings Account, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance.
• Financial: 401k Retirement Plan, Company Stock Options, Home Office Budget.
• Leave: Flexible Time Off (FTO) plus all Federal Holidays, one week for Thanksgiving, and two weeks for Christmas and New Year’s; Paid Parental Leave.
• Learning: Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions, Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees).

Important Information:

• This position requires U.S. Citizenship.
• This position requires an active Secret Clearance.

Note: The listed responsibilities are not exhaustive and additional responsibilities may be assigned based on the evolving needs of the organization. We are seeking a dynamic individual who is able to adapt and take on new responsibilities as they arise.