Portfolio Director, Missile Defense Agency Programs (Missile Defense)

Location: Huntsville, Alabama, United States; regular travel to customer, partner, and program locations of up to 25%.

Job status: Full-time.

Clearance: Active Top Secret plus SCI eligibility; ability to obtain and maintain any security clearance, access authorization, or customer-specific eligibility required by the assigned contract.

Company

hirify.global provides technical, engineering, test, logistics, digital, training, and program-management capabilities for government and national-security missions.

What you will do

• Lead execution of a portfolio of Missile Defense Agency-related programs across technical, contractual, schedule, cost, staffing, quality, risk, and customer objectives.
• Own and execute the MDA portfolio growth strategy, including target customers, market approaches, objectives, investments, pipeline priorities, and pursuit decisions.
• Build senior relationships with MDA, Department of Defense stakeholders, program offices, mission partners, prime contractors, OEMs, universities, and other industry organizations.
• Direct subordinate program and project managers and technical leads; establish priorities, decision rights, staffing plans, labor mix, and performance expectations.
• Translate contract requirements, statements of work, technical baselines, and customer priorities into executable portfolio plans, schedules, forecasts, reviews, reports, and corrective actions.
• Lead capture, proposal, recompete, teaming, customer-growth, quality-assurance, mission-assurance, and continuous-improvement activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, business, program management, or a related discipline with 12 or more years of relevant experience; or a master's degree with 10 or more years of relevant experience.
• At least 6 years of management experience with responsibility for experienced professional staff and/or subordinate program or project managers.
• Experience leading major technical programs or multiple related programs in a government contracting environment, with accountability for technical, schedule, cost, staffing, risk, and customer performance.
• Experience developing or executing growth strategies, building senior customer relationships, and converting customer insight into qualified opportunities, capture plans, proposals, or follow-on work.
• Experience interpreting and executing contract requirements, managing customer commitments, preparing program performance reports, and supporting contract reviews or equivalent governance activities.
• Experience developing staffing plans, budgets or financial forecasts, integrated schedules, risk and issue plans, and corrective-action strategies for complex programs.
• Strong written, verbal, briefing, negotiation, and executive-level communication skills, including communication of complex program information to government and company leadership.
• Working knowledge of federal acquisition and business-development practices, including FAR and DFARS environments, contract vehicles, task orders, recompetes, proposal development, pricing coordination, and capture governance.
• Ability to collaborate across technical and business functions, exercise sound judgment, protect sensitive information, and make timely decisions amid competing priorities.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting MDA, Department of Defense acquisition, integrated air and missile defense, missile defense systems, command and control, testing, modeling and simulation, or related mission areas.
• Experience managing portfolios with multiple contracts, task orders, subcontractors, geographically distributed teams, or matrixed technical organizations.
• Advanced degree in engineering, science, business, systems engineering, or a related field.
• Program-management certification such as PMP, DAWIA, or an equivalent credential when relevant to the assigned work and contract requirements.
• Experience with earned value management, program management reviews, technical interchange meetings, integrated baseline reviews, milestone reviews, or similar government program-control practices.
• Experience leading federal-government proposal, capture, recompete, or customer-growth activities, preferably in missile defense or another complex national-security mission area.
• Established relationships across MDA, Department of Defense acquisition organizations, prime contractors, OEMs, and mission partners.
• Experience developing reusable, solution-led offerings and moving a business toward outcome-based work, repeatable delivery, and scalable growth.
• Experience working with classified or otherwise controlled program information in accordance with applicable security and information-protection requirements.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time leadership role with enterprise-level responsibility across program execution and growth.
• Regular travel of up to 25% to customer, partner, and program locations.
• Work involves government customers, controlled information, and applicable company and government security requirements.