Space and Missile Defense Solutions Growth Operations Lead

Parsons Corporation; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 104,000 - 181,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Paid time off

ESOP

401(k)

Life insurance

Flexible work schedules

Holidays

Job summary

Parsons is seeking a Growth Operations Lead in Denver to drive how the Growth organization operates across business development, capture, mission engineering, and business teams. You will lead cross-functional initiatives from concept to impact, align priorities with senior leaders, remove barriers, and push for continuous improvements using data-driven insights.

You will partner with Growth, Capture, Mission Engineering, and business leaders to deliver coordinated execution, ensure clear

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, political science, engineering, or related field.
• At least seven years of relevant experience.
• Defense, intelligence, or adjacent government-market experience preferred.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and complex initiatives.
• Strategic, analytical, and financial judgment applicable to business priorities.
• Strong communication, influence, and leadership across senior leaders.
• Ability to obtain a Top Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic initiatives from idea to impact and drive measurable results.
• Align people and priorities across Growth, Capture, and business leaders.
• Remove barriers and resolve dependencies across pursuit and functional teams.
• Lead change, redesign workflows, and promote adoption of better practices.
• Turn business insight into action with pipeline, cost, and investment analysis.
• Strengthen decisions and accountability with structured reviews.
• Build lasting organizational capability and scale effective practices.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic thinking

Financial judgment

Effective communication

Stakeholder management

Govt market knowledge

Salesforce familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree in business

Bachelor's degree in political science

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

Salesforce

Excel

PowerPoint

Power BI

Job description

Growth Operations Lead

Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Growth Operations Lead to join our team! In this role you will get to lead the work that strengthens how our Growth organization operates, connecting people, capabilities, and initiatives across business development, capture, mission engineering, and business teams.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead strategic initiatives from idea to impact. Own cross-functional efforts that advance agreed growth priorities and improve organizational performance. Define outcomes, develop the approach, mobilize the right team, and drive implementation through measurable results.
• Align people and priorities. Partner with Growth, Capture, Mission Engineering, and business leaders to turn priorities into coordinated execution. Establish shared outcomes, clear ownership, and practical delivery plans; work through competing demands and resource tradeoffs.
• Remove barriers to execution. Bring the right leaders together to solve problems that span organizational boundaries. Resolve dependencies, close ownership gaps, and address recurring obstacles across pursuit, technical, proposal, and functional teams. Elevate decisions requiring broader authority.
• Lead change that improves how the team works. Diagnose friction, redesign inefficient workflows, and drive adoption of better practices. Use approved technology, automation, and AI where appropriate. Measure improvements in speed, quality, and team capacity.
• Turn business insight into action. Use pipeline, operational, and financial analysis to identify performance gaps and recommend interventions. Partner with Capture and Finance to assess resource tradeoffs and investment effectiveness; work with accountable leaders to implement improvements.
• Strengthen team decisions and accountability. Establish operating routines that help teams resolve issues, make timely decisions, and deliver on commitments. Focus reviews on choices and actions, use reliable information, and keep important initiatives moving through execution.
• Build lasting organizational capability. Connect teams to expertise, scale practices that work, and turn lessons learned into lasting improvements. Strengthen collaboration and shared accountability so the organization becomes more effective as its missions and opportunities grow.

What Required Skills You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in business, political science, engineering, or a related field and at least seven years of relevant experience. Defense, intelligence, or adjacent government-market experience is preferred.
• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional teams and complex initiatives from an ambiguous problem to a measurable business result. Ability to mobilize experienced professionals and sustain momentum across organizational boundaries.
• Experience leading organizational or operational improvements: diagnosing problems, redesigning ways of working, gaining stakeholder commitment, and driving lasting adoption. Evidence that the changes improved performance, speed, quality, or capacity.
• Strategic, analytical, and financial judgment. Ability to connect business priorities with execution choices, evaluate tradeoffs, develop practical recommendations, and assess whether an initiative is delivering its intended results.
• Strong communication, constructive persistence, and leadership through influence. Confidence working with senior leaders, challenging assumptions, resolving competing priorities, and holding teams to agreed outcomes while building trust. Sound judgment with sensitive information.
• Working knowledge of government business-development and pursuit lifecycles, including qualification, capture, proposals, and forecasting; understanding of how business, technical, and functional teams contribute to successful pursuits.
• Proficiency in Salesforce and Microsoft Office, including Excel and PowerPoint, to support analysis, communication, and team effectiveness. Power BI experience is preferred; ability to adopt approved tools that improve how work gets done.
• Ability to obtain a Top Secret security clearance

Security Clearance Requirement

None

Salary and Benefits

Salary Range: $103,500.00 - $181,100.00

• medical
• dental
• vision
• paid time off
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• 401(k)
• life insurance
• flexible work schedules
• holidays

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.

We truly invest and care about our employee's wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest.