Mission Director - Cyber

An active Secret clearance is required; a Top Secret clearance is preferred. Role Description: The Mission Director is a quota-carrying, full-lifecycle business owner responsible for identifying, shaping, closing, and executing new business within the Cyber domain. You will build trusted relationships with Mission Heroes (our customers), identify meaningful problems, shape solutions using Defense Unicorns products, and lead opportunities from initial discovery through contract award. Once awarded, you will remain accountable for the contract throughout its lifecycle, including cost, schedule, performance, staffing, margin, and customer satisfaction. This role is designed for someone who wants broad ownership. As the portfolio grows in size and complexity, Mission Directors will increasingly lead through program managers and delivery leaders while retaining accountability for portfolio outcomes. Responsibilities: The listed responsibilities are not exhaustive and additional responsibilities may be assigned based on the evolving needs of the organization. We are seeking a dynamic individual who is able to adapt and take on new responsibilities as they arise. Build the Business Identify and develop net-new Cyber opportunities and build trusted relationships with Mission Heroes and key stakeholders. Own a quota and grow a diversified portfolio of business. Shape and Close Opportunities Define customer problems, scope, and desired outcomes to shape solutions using Defense Unicorns products and the right acquisition approach. Lead opportunities through proposal, negotiation, and contract award. Own Contract Execution Serve as the program leader for new contracts you close, with direct responsibility for execution until the portfolio reaches the scale where additional program management support is warranted. Manage delivery risks, scope changes, and mission outcomes. Build and Lead the Team Define and build the team required to execute each contract. Personally lead

This position offers a base salary of $145,000 - $185,000. (Total on-target earnings of $290,000 to $370,000) Role Description: Defense Unicorns is seeking mission-driven Mission Directors to spearhead full-lifecycle capture efforts across the Space ecosystem. In this high-impact role, you will shape and lead strategic pursuits that align Defense Unicorns’ unique strengths—secure software delivery, DevSecOps, tactical edge enablement, and cybersecurity—with emerging government needs. You will own the acquisition of new Mission Heroes (what we call our customers) from early qualification through proposal, driving win strategies, forming key partnerships, and aligning technical solutions to mission outcomes. This is a pivotal role within our growth team that directly influences the company’s pipeline, revenue targets, and national security impact. Responsibilities: Drive new Mission Hero acquisition across the Space ecosystem, ensuring alignment with Defense Unicorn’s strategic growth objectives and solution capabilities. Develop and execute capture plans, win strategies, and competitive positioning to secure new business. Engage early with government stakeholders, primes, and ecosystem partners to shape opportunities ahead of solicitation. Understand customer pain points, acquisition timelines, and funding paths across multiple branches of the DoD. Identify and lead teaming arrangements that enhance technical capabilities, socio-economic positioning, or incumbent advantage. Translate technical capabilities—such as the Unicorn Delivery Service (UDS), cATO acceleration, and edge deployments—into persuasive win themes. Support RFI/RFP responses with market intelligence, SWOT analysis, and pricing strategy input. Prepare regular reports on business development activities, track key performance indicators (KPIs), and analyze the effectiveness of various strategies. Use data-driven insights to refine approaches and achieve better results. Represent the company

About the team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The Cybersecurity specialist sales team partners with Account Directors, Technical Success, Marketing, and Partnerships to drive cybersecurity adoption that help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the role Our Sales team has a unique mission to help cybersecurity customers understand the deep impact that highly capable AI models can bring to their businesses, operations, employees, and customers. This role is a mixture of technical understanding, industry expertise, vision, partnership, and value-driven strategy. As an Account Director focused on Cybersecurity, you will own executive-level relationships with leading cybersecurity firms and help them safely and effectively deploy OpenAI’s technology across their organizations. You’ll work with customers to identify and scale high-impact use cases across areas such as security operations, threat intelligence, risk management, incident response, vulnerability management, workforce enablement, customer support, and enterprise knowledge management. You’ll be a key driver of opportunities through the entire sales cycle, from pipeline generation to closure and successful deployment. You’ll work with researchers, engineers, and solution strategists to help customers transform their operations and evolve the cybersecurity industry with AI. This role is based in San Francisco, Seattle or New York. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. We are open to US-based remote candidates. In this role, you’ll: Support Accou

About the team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) that benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals together in one lab. Our Go To Market (GTM) team helps customers understand and deploy our highly capable AI products across their businesses. Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnerships work together to bring AI to as many users as possible. About the role As an Account Director, Large Enterprise — Cybersecurity, you’ll work with some of our largest cybersecurity customers, winning new business and expanding adoption within existing accounts. You’ll help these organizations apply AI across their products, security workflows, and business operations. This role combines cybersecurity industry knowledge, technical understanding, executive engagement, and ownership of complex enterprise sales. You’ll create demand, develop opportunities, and lead deals from initial engagement through negotiation, deployment, and expansion. You’ll help executives identify where AI can deliver meaningful value and build a practical path to realizing it. We’re looking for someone with a hunter mentality and a strong track record in the cybersecurity ecosystem. You’re comfortable engaging CISOs, CIOs, CTOs, product leaders, and other business executives, bringing commercial and technical stakeholders together around an enterprise AI strategy. Success means both winning business and helping customers turn their commitments into sustained adoption and consumption. This role can be based in our San Francisco, New York City, or Seattle offices. We are also considering applications to work remotely from within the U.S. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you’ll: Own a portfolio of large enterprise cybersecurity accounts, developing strategies that drive new business, enterprise

SpyCloud is on a mission to make the internet a safer place by disrupting the criminal underground. SpyCloud’s solutions thwart cyberattacks and protect more than 4 billion accounts worldwide. Cybersecurity is an exciting, evolving space, and being at the forefront of the fight to disrupt cybercrime makes SpyCloud a special place to work. If you’re driven to align your career with a fantastic mission, look no further! The Director of Strategic Alliances - Consumer Products will be responsible for the success of partner relationships. In this role, you will build scalable processes to understand, predict, and maximize partner value, usage and revenue. What You'll Do: Management of Key Consumer Security Alliances Cultivate relationships with key stakeholders and company executives ensuring effective governance of the relationship, protecting SpyCloud’s assets, and maximize the long-term value for SpyCloud, our partners, and their customers. Develop and execute detailed road maps for go to market strategy with partners to identify and create a plan to improve partner revenue. Develop partner value propositions and playbooks, partner programs, marketing strategy, and partner agreements. Track progress, including reporting of the KPIs, as well as leading periodic health checks. Report out on a regular weekly, monthly, and quarterly cadence to all key stakeholders, with a strong analytical approach and crisp communication style. Partner Product Management Guide partner product and development teams through onboarding, integration and maintenance of SpyCloud solutions in partner ecosystem Leverage partner relationships to discover desired features/product enhancements, industry changes and developing technology requirements. Requirements: At least 5 years of combined in Partnerships,Business Development and/or Strategic Account Management experience. Startup experience preferred. Mean

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for. About the Role, Mission or Department Overview The Senior Engineer, Cybersecurity is a hands-on contributor who designs, builds, and operates security controls and services that protect The Times' systems, data, and users. As a member of the Security Architecture team, you will own complex initiatives end-to-end, drive measurable risk reduction, and collaborate across product engineering and enterprise technology with technical depth, operational rigor, and clear communication aligned with business outcomes. Who are we? Cybersecurity helps prevent The Times from becoming news. Our teams work to protect the news makers, their support staff, the platforms they rely on every day, as well as all of The Times' products and services, and our readers who consume them. This role reports to the Director of Engineering, Cybersecurity. Responsibilities: Create an environment that favors context, not control. Empower product engineers and ensure they have the relevant information and tools to deliver secure products and services. Design, implement, and operate security controls and services (e.g., identity and access management, secrets management, endpoint/agent hardening, network segmentation, detection, and response automation) that meet reliability, security, scalability, and observability standards. Partner with product and platform teams to integrate security into architecture and developer workflows while articulating business impact and tradeoff