What You'll Own

Strategy and Growth

• Define the long-term vision, strategy, and growth trajectory for your Mission Area.
• Identify emerging mission needs, market shifts, and technology trends before they become requirements.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with government customers, mission stakeholders, and industry partners.
• Shape opportunities from early concept through capture and award.
• Partner with the business development team and executive leadership to develop growth strategies, pursue new work, and expand customer relationships.
• Lead or contribute to white papers, proposals, strategic captures, and business development activities.
• Ensure EXP’s investments align with future customer needs and mission priorities.

Portfolio Leadership

• Guide the overall health and direction of a substantial portfolio of programs, customers, and investments.
• Maintain accountability for the financial health and growth of the Mission Area.
• Balance near-term execution with long-term capability development.
• Evaluate investments in new technologies, products, and internal research efforts.
• Monitor portfolio performance, customer satisfaction, pipeline health, backlog growth, and strategic positioning.
• Make informed decisions about where EXP should focus its time, talent, and resources.

Technical and Mission Direction

• Help define the technical roadmap for the Mission Area.
• Connect customer mission challenges with EXP’s capabilities in AI, machine learning, computer vision, signal processing, software, data platforms, and advanced analytics.
• Partner with technical leaders to ensure our solutions remain differentiated and mission relevant.
• Drive the transition of new ideas into deployed operational capabilities.
• Represent EXP's technical vision and mission expertise to senior government and industry audiences.

Building Leaders and Organizations

• Partner closely with Operations Leads who are responsible for program execution, delivery excellence, and people leadership.
• Provide strategic direction and context that enables teams to make effective decisions.
• Help develop the next generation of leaders across the Mission Area.
• Contribute to a culture of learning, collaboration, autonomy, and continuous improvement.
• Foster alignment across customers, technology investments, operations, and company strategy.

What We're Looking For

Required

• Active TS/SCI clearance.
• Demonstrated success leading significant technology, mission, or business portfolios.
• Experience supporting defense, intelligence, or national security customers.
• Proven ability to build trusted customer relationships and grow business opportunities.
• Experience shaping and pursuing strategic opportunities, including business development, capture, proposals, or customer engagement.
• Strong understanding of advanced technology domains such as AI, machine learning, computer vision, signal processing, software systems, data platforms, or related fields.
• Ability to connect mission needs, technical capabilities, and business objectives.
• Excellent communication skills and comfort engaging with senior government, industry, and internal stakeholders.
• Track record of developing leaders and building high-performing organizations.

Preferred

• Experience owning or influencing the performance of a significant portfolio, business line, or mission area.
• Experience with AI/ML, computer vision, autonomous systems, advanced analytics, or other emerging technologies.
• Experience transitioning technology from research into operational deployment.
• Experience leading major strategic captures and proposal efforts.
• Master's degree or higher in a technical, scientific, or business discipline.
• Deep familiarity with one or more defense or intelligence mission communities.