Head of Cyber Missions

Role overview Build and lead a cyber mission practice focused on disrupting cybercrime and improving cyber resilience. You’ll identify high-impact problems across public and private organizations, develop credible approaches to solving them, and turn qualified opportunities into large, operationally realistic programs. The role combines mission strategy, customer engagement, program design, and delivery accountability.

Responsibilities - Develop and communicate an independent perspective on major cybercrime and resilience challenges; publish thought leadership and engage with operators, executives, and policymakers. - Identify organizations with urgent cyber needs, build relationships with decision-makers, qualify opportunities, and coordinate handoff to commercial account owners. - Shape programs with customers, defining achievable outcomes, scope, and delivery models while distinguishing existing capabilities from needs for custom product, data, or AI work. - Design commercial structures across fixed-price, time-and-materials, milestone-based, performance-based, or hybrid models. - Lead mission execution across internal teams and customer partners, maintaining clear accountability for outcomes. - Support efforts to attribute threat actors and infrastructure, translate intelligence into operational action, and improve resilience across governments, critical infrastructure, and businesses.

Requirements - Demonstrated ability to identify consequential cyber problems and develop practical, first-principles solutions. - Experience building trusted relationships with senior buyers who can authorize and fund complex programs. - Ability to scope technically and operationally credible work, align stakeholders, and guide delivery toward measurable outcomes. - Strong communication skills with credibility across technical operators, executives, policymakers, and industry leaders. - Comfort with long, complex sales cycles; the source indicates these commonly last six to eighteen months.

Nice to have Experience engaging national cyber resilience agencies, critical infrastructure leaders, or law enforcement cyber units would be relevant to the stated priority buyer groups.