Director of Telecommunications Strategy

3 days ago


New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States MITRE Full time
Job Description:

At MITRE, we're committed to tackling our nation's toughest challenges and creating a fulfilling life for our employees. As a Director of Telecommunications, you'll play a critical role in shaping our telecommunications strategy and driving innovation in this field.

Our Telecommunications team is focused on building and demonstrating key telecommunications capabilities for 5G and 6G, enabling the US to regain its leadership position in this technology. We're working across government, industry, and academia to ensure these technologies align with our values and advance US and partner interests.

This is a critical role that requires careful synchronization across MITRE's research activities, work programs, and broader strategic priorities. As a Director of Telecommunications, you'll report directly to the Director of the Infrastructure and Networking Innovation Center and be part of the MITRE Labs Leadership team.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Develop and execute a cross-corporate strategy aligning stakeholder needs within the Telecommunications community.
  • Build a team and/or network of related projects and efforts and align capabilities to deliver cross-cutting priority outcomes.
  • Advance MITRE capabilities through innovation, integration, external partnering, and direct work program shaping in alignment with MITRE Labs, MITRE NSEC, and MITRE MPS Priorities.
  • Lead new partnerships across government, industry, and innovation networks to achieve cross-cutting priority objectives.
  • Partner with work programs and network of government champions to catalyze solution development and operational transition.
Requirements:
  • Minimum of 15 years of related experience leading technology development and integration, strategy and business development, technical and engineering services, program and portfolio management, and government program leadership in the Telecommunications space.
  • Significant experience in telecommunication sectors or related technical fields with specific expertise in mobile/cellular networks, mobile network standards and standards development organizations, spectrum management, spectrum sharing techniques, mobile network security, signal processing, and/or communications.
  • Demonstrated experience overseeing cross-cutting and multi-organization initiatives, including overseeing the direct work, funding, and management of teams that cross sponsors, technology, and missions/domains.
  • Demonstrated ability to bridge the gap between national defense and public sector priorities.
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate with academia, industry, and government partners.
  • Success in providing sponsors and partners with advice to address critical issues; setting and meeting strategic objectives; and advancing short and long-term program goals.
  • Excellent leadership skills including persistent, tactful, and persuasive communications, influencing, conflict resolution, and building trust.
  • Demonstrated ability to develop a strategic vision and use that vision to guide short and long-term execution.
  • Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain strong partner and sponsor relationships at the most senior levels of diverse organizations.
  • Strong business acumen and demonstrated ability to develop, plan and implement cross-cutting strategies in a complex multi-stakeholder environment.
  • Experience working across multiple technical disciplines with a desire to do cross-disciplinary work assessing concepts for novel national security and public sector systems and sensors in operational contexts.
  • History of team building, achieving team goals, and growing trust.
  • Must have and maintain a DHS Suitability Clearance.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Advanced education with a relevant Master's degree or a PhD.
  • Deep understanding of the telecommunication systems past & present, stakeholders across industry & Government, and the technologies being developed.
  • Demonstrated knowledge and presence within the telecommunications ecosystem and track record of enabling growth in this space.
  • Demonstrated expertise working with DoD, Commerce, NSF, DOE, and Interagency government organizations, including senior government leaders, as well as diverse commercial organizations from small start-ups to large established corporations.
  • Proven success working across organizational boundaries, create win-win approaches for complex multi-sponsor challenges, and manage effectively through influence to achieve successful whole-of-MITRE outcomes.
  • History of success developing new pilots, programs, and mission applications, including navigating both internal organizational processes and government programmatic processes.
  • Maturity and expertise balancing performance and mission impact against effective risk management and technical quality.
  • Demonstrated comfort with ambiguity and change in a fast-paced environment.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead through influence.
  • Ability to prioritize across multiple competing demands and simultaneously handle diverse commitments to multiple stakeholders.
Leadership Competencies:
  • Lead with a Strategic Mindset: Drives alignment across MITRE to achieve our mission by engaging across and beyond the enterprise, making and executing decisions, and activating the Good Growth Strategy.
  • Create Value: Takes a broad approach to solving complex problems using a national and global lens. Unleashes the full capabilities of our people in a relentless pursuit of innovative solutions that are scalable, equitable, transferable, and sustainable.
  • Cultivate Inclusion: Creates an environment and opportunities, built on trust, where people can be their whole authentic self, feeling welcomed, supported, engaged, and respected for who they are and what they contribute to the organization. Embraces and engages all dimensions of diversity to exponentially expand MITRE's impact in solving problems for a safer world.
  • Communicate for Impact: Conveys powerful messages tailored to the unique needs of stakeholders—and desired outcomes—in a style that engages and inspires action. Exemplifies active listening to foster collaboration, understanding, and alignment.
  • Commit to Action and Outcomes: Holds self and others accountable for acting on and achieving established objectives. Exemplifies cultural attributes while executing and delivering impactful outcomes.


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