FAST Labs Campaign Strategy Director

FAST Labs Campaign Director

The FAST Labs Campaign Director will lead the shift to mission-focused campaigns in the FAST Labs Business Area in the BAE Systems Electronic Systems Sector, reporting directly to the Vice President / General Manager of FAST Labs.

The successful candidate will be responsible for leading a shift to mission-focused campaigns across the FAST Labs business area. The Campaign Director will have responsibility for coordinating the work of product-line based campaign leads spanning multiple locations in Burlington, MA, Merrimack, NH, Arlington, VA, Reston VA, Austin, TX and Durham, NC. Specific job responsibilities include the following :

• Lead the shaping and communication of mission campaigns.
• Partner with internal ES Mission Integration Cell and FL Mission Assessments (MA) teams to help define descriptions of current and future threats, as well as current and projected future Blue force design and strategy.
• Develop strategic Red / Blue architectures in terms understandable to technologists.
• Support MA on defining key analytical tasks to help identify technology needs.
• Guide design of experiments for sensitivity analysis to define technology needs.
• Develop and execute a plan to communicate strategic architecture and threat to technologists.
• Develop an education and training approach to put operational trends, needs, and limitations in terms relevant to technology development and fielding.
• Provide insights into the complexities of employing and sustaining new technologies in an operational setting.
• Educate program teams of higher-maturity capabilities on these realities and help them develop their own campaigns to lead to fieldable programs of record.
• Possess a deep understanding of the government acquisition system and communicate this to program teams.
• Leverage this insight to help program teams develop new business models to transition and mature their capabilities faster and more adaptively.
• Help teams find interim government customers to support development of these business models and other transition experiment, bridging the gap between S&T and a traditional PEO.
• Develop and foster an entrepreneurial mindset throughout the organization for developing and executing strategies to rapidly and consistently develop impactful technologies and products and getting those technologies and products across the valley of death.
• Develop the approach and skills needed for strategic operational architecting, the art of converting operational problems into a mesh of inter-connected technical capability solutions.
• Develop the training methods to teach this type of thinking to FL scientists and engineers.
• Develop a cadre of strategic operational architects, the key contacts within Product Lines who will execute mission campaigns for their programs.
• Train and develop them for campaign thinking and build them into an integrated team.
• Lead and encourage campaign collaboration across Tech Areas and Product Lines to facilitate integrated mission campaign development and execution.
• Train the trainers to enlist them in further propagation of this thinking within their PLs.

Required Education, Experience, & Skills :

15 years of technical and management experience in across Research and Development, Engineering Manufacturing and Development, Production, and fielding for the Defense and / or Intelligence markets.

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills :

Pay Information :

Full-Time Salary Range : $196296 - $333704

Please note : This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to : business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.

Employee Benefits :

At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20+ hours per week are offered : health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and / or job specifics.

About BAE Systems Electronic Systems :

BAE Systems, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems plc, an international defense, aerospace and security company which delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. Improving the future and protecting lives is an ambitious mission, but it's what we do at BAE Systems. Working here means using your passion and ingenuity where it counts defending national security with breakthrough technology, superior products, and intelligence solutions. As you develop the latest technology and defend national security, you will continually hone your skills on a teammaking a big impact on a global scale. At BAE Systems, you'll find a rewarding career that truly makes a difference. Electronic Systems (ES) is the global innovator behind BAE Systems' game-changing defense and commercial electronics. Exploiting every electron, we push the limits of what is possible, giving our customers the edge and our employees opportunities to change the world. Our products and capabilities can be found everywhere from the depths of the ocean to the far reaches of space. At our core are more than 14,000 highly talented Electronic Systems employees with the brightest minds in the industry, we make an impact for our customers and the communities we serve.

This position will be posted for at least 5 calendar days. The posting will remain active until the position is filled, or a qualified pool of candidates is identified.