Senior Director

Alexandria, VA

Top Secret

What happens when you are wicked smart and hungry for growth? You end up joining the Decision Advantage Business Area within Defense at Leidos currently has an opening for a Senior Director – Counter-C5ISRT (Campaign Lead). This is an exciting opportunity to lead one of Leidos’ most strategic growth initiatives aligned to National Security Strategy priorities, Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2), and emerging counter-C5ISRT mission needs.

Reporting to the Vice President of the Air Force Division this leader will own the strategy, integration, and execution of the C-C5ISRT campaign across multiple theaters, driving mission outcomes across the Defense-Wide (DoW) enterprise, advancing capability development, and enabling transition to scalable programs of record. The role spans mission, product, and growth—integrating sensing, decisioning, and effects into a cohesive, system-of-systems approach that delivers decision advantage at operational scale.

This leader will serve as Senior Program Manager for initial efforts as they are established, maintaining end-to-end accountability from campaign shaping through execution—ensuring speed, disciplined delivery, and successful transition to scalable programs of record.

This position represents a critical opportunity to position Leidos as an operational integrator in the counter-C5ISRT mission—shifting from fragmented solutions to platform-based, productized capabilities that deliver decision advantage at speed and scale across the Joint Force.

Primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Operate in a fast-paced, mission-focused environment; demonstrate thought leadership, strategic agility, and a bias for action in achieving results.
• Develop and execute business strategies that drive sustainable revenue growth and align with organizational objectives within the Annual Operating Plan (AOP).
• Lead the C-C5ISRT campaign strategy and execution, aligning investments, capture efforts, and customer engagement across COCOMs and Defense-Wide stakeholders.
• Serve as Program Manager for early efforts, ensuring disciplined execution, customer confidence, and transition to enduring programs of record.
• Communicate effectively and strategically with leadership, employees, peers, and customers to ensure transparency, alignment, and shared understanding of goals, risks, and outcomes.
• Engage directly with customers to build trusted relationships, identify emerging mission needs, and ensure delivery excellence and satisfaction.
• Lead with a focus on team cohesion, collaboration, and a high-performance culture aligned to Leidos values and mission outcomes.
• Coordinate and lead cross-functional efforts across Leidos to integrate capabilities and maximize mission and business outcomes.
• Travel as required to support personnel engagements, customer relationships, and program execution activities.

Basic Qualifications

• Master’s Degree and 15+ years of relevant experience; advanced degree preferred. (Four additional years of related experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.)
• Must be a U.S. Citizen with an active Top-Secret clearance.
• Demonstrated success leading large, complex programs or portfolios with full P&L accountability.
• Bias for action with a willingness to personally engage at the point of execution—removing friction, driving decisions, and ensuring outcomes are delivered at speed and scale. Engage directly with customers to build trusted relationships, identify emerging mission needs, and ensure delivery excellence and satisfaction.
• Deep experience and demonstrated mastery operating within Special Access Programs (SAPs), including leading secure efforts, aligning stakeholders, and delivering mission outcomes within highly controlled and sensitive environments.
• Deep knowledge, demonstrated mastery, and proven past performance in supporting the Department of Air Force in their modernization effort by leading a team in developing analyses, models, and prototypes for solutions to highly technical challenges.
• Strong strategic communication, interpersonal, and relationship-building skills-able to influence and align diverse stakeholders including executives, technical teams, and customers.
• Proven ability to analyze, solve, and execute complex technical and business challenges while instilling confidence among customers, staff, and senior leadership.
• Demonstrated experience interviewing, hiring, staffing, and developing multi-disciplinary project teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience supporting one or more Combatant Commands (e.g., INDOPACOM, EUCOM, CENTCOM, STRATCOM) and understanding of theater-level operational challenges.
• Experience in counter-C5ISRT or related mission areas, including kill chain disruption, targeting, or adversary system denial.
• Background in AI/ML-enabled mission systems, data fusion, and decision-support technologies.
• Proven experience driving product-based delivery models, including roadmap development, modular architectures, and lifecycle management.
• Demonstrated success integrating capabilities across multiple domains (maritime, air, space, cyber).
• Experience partnering across the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) to deliver integrated, scalable solutions.
• Experience with rapid prototyping, OTAs, Middle Tier of Acquisition (MTA), and other adaptive acquisition pathways.
• Strong financial acumen, including experience aligning IRAD, capital investments, and growth strategy.
• Experience briefing and influencing flag-level or SES-level stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to build, mentor, and scale high-performing teams in emerging mission areas.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

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