The work program includes performing and leading space integration across the enterprise, with a particular emphasis on space support missions for the USSF and other services. This position supports a customer organization that spans space, ground, and cyber responsibilities. The Principal Director will be responsible for leading a team that will be working across the National Security Space Enterprise, bringing stakeholders together from multiple acquisition agencies, operator communities and commercial partners to evolve the space architecture baseline toward the delivery of end-to-end warfighter effects. The role requires collaboration across SSC, US SPACECOM, Space Operations Command (SpOC), Space Training and Readiness Command (STARCOM), and mission partners as well as with representatives of other services. The selected candidate will be expected to provide proactive support to the customer, cultivate productive working relationships in a fast-paced multi-stakeholder environment, execute a strategic vision for an emerging customer area, work and develop staff members to solve Enterprise Integration problems.

Work Model: This position is located in El Segundo. Daily onsite presence is expected to work with the customer and staff.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead and manage Aerospace support to SSC/BZG (Global Mission Operations), including forward deployed personnel from ETG and other program offices
• Establish trusted relationships with the SSC/SSIO leadership team with a focus on end to end integration to enable capability delivery for the space enterprise architecture
• Provide senior technical guidance within teams of Government, Aerospace, support contractors, and other FFRDC personnel to monitor program efforts, identify and resolve technical and performance integration risks/issues, and develop strategic roadmaps
• Provide leadership for team members and staff, setting strategy, goals, expectations and direction, mentoring, providing feedback, succession planning, and coaching aimed at building and maintaining an agile and capable team
• Collaborate with colleagues across Aerospace groups to deliver coordinated technical products in a timely and effective manner
• Demonstrate technical leadership in order to drive the development of systems engineering products in support of complex integration problems
• Conduct budget planning and allocation of resources, including identifying and hiring to fill needed positions and coordinating ETG support.
• Provide proactive support to customers to identify high value work for Aerospace, translating customer requests into technical priorities and planning and managing the team accordingly
• Report on the organization’s activities, progress, and achievements through written and oral reports.
• Moderate level of travel will be required

What You Need to be Successful

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, mathematics or equivalent discipline
• Minimum 12 years of progressively demonstrated management and technical experience, including multi-disciplinary systems engineering
• Previous people management experience and the ability to perform resource planning, staffing, coaching and mentoring, and performance and development of team.
• Proven experience with building, leading, and maintaining integrated multidisciplinary mixed government, SE&I, SETA and FFRDC teams
• Demonstrated ability to make time-critical mission success decisions with ambiguous or incomplete data
• Demonstrated experience working across organizations and leading teams of technical experts and support staff; success as a relationship builder, complex problem solver, deep critical thinker, mentor, and coach
• Broad experience across a variety of space disciplines such as acquisition, systems engineering, integration & test, or operations
• Excellent social skills enabling effective communication and relationship building with customers, direct reports, colleagues, and senior management.
• Ability to travel as required (approx. 15 %)
• Active Top Secret / SCI clearance with ability to obtain Special Access (SAP) and maintain clearance, issued by the US government. U.S citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance

How You Can Stand Out

It would be impressive if you have one or more of these:

• 15 or more years of progressively responsible professional engineering/scientific experience

• Advanced technical degree in engineering, science or math
• A strategic vision for how you would leverage the organization to address near-term integration challenges
• Experience leading a technical organization
• Demonstrated ability to work across a diverse array of partners in the National Security Space Enterprise including partners beyond SSC.
• Experience performing systems integration in other domains, in addition to space
• Prior management role in direct support of a government customer in program office
• Proven ability to work in fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
• Experience operating across multiple security compartments
• Current Special Access (SAP) clearance

We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business.  The grade-based pay range for this job is listed below.  Individual salaries within that range are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge and skills.

(Min – Max)

$240,000 – $280,000

Pay Basis: Annual

Leadership Competencies