Strategic Delivery Lead, Intelligence Community

Jobtailor

Washington (District of Columbia)

On-site

USD 210,000 - 260,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

Jobtailor seeks a senior program leader to identify and deliver OpenAI-driven deployments for U.S. intelligence customers in secure facilities.

You will translate mission priorities into feasible AI solutions, drive end-to-end delivery, and coordinate with stakeholders across security, legal, privacy, and engineering. You will lead cross-functional teams, manage roadmaps and milestones, ensure risk governance, and maintain trust with IC mission owners.

Qualifications

10+ years of experience leading technical programs, enterprise AI or cloud deployments, intelligence mission transformation, or national security consulting
Substantial direct delivery experience with U.S. Intelligence Community customers
Active U.S. Government TS/SCI clearance
Willingness to travel up to 50%
Willingness to work on-site with IC customers in secure facilities
Understanding of Intelligence Community missions, organizations, operating models, and analytic tradecraft
Experience supporting agencies or elements such as ODNI, CIA, NSA, DIA, NGA, or NRO
Experience leading complex generative AI, AI/ML, enterprise SaaS, API, data-platform, cloud, or digital-transformation programs from discovery through operational deployment
Executive presence and experience advising agency leadership, mission owners, contracting officers, and senior technical stakeholders
Ability to translate mission outcomes into requirements, statements of work, integrated schedules, acceptance criteria, evaluation plans, and measurable success metrics
Experience delivering systems across multiple classification levels and navigating secure cloud and restricted environments
Familiarity with IC enterprise IT, identity and access controls, data governance, cross-domain constraints, RMF/ATO processes, and ICD 503
Understanding of modern AI solution architectures, including large language models, enterprise APIs, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, data integration, and model evaluation
Experience applying responsible‑AI practices, including human-in-the-loop review, analytic objectivity, source and data provenance, privacy and civil liberties safeguards, explainability, adversarial testing, and ongoing model monitoring
Existing full-scope polygraph and ability to meet customer-specific access requirements are strongly preferred
Existing IC customer relationships are beneficial but not required

Responsibilities

Identify, shape, and deliver OpenAI's highest-impact deployments for U.S. intelligence organizations
Translate mission priorities into secure, technically feasible AI deployments using the OpenAI API and enterprise products
Partner with Research, Engineering, Go-to-Market, Security, Legal, Privacy, and government stakeholders
Own end-to-end execution of technical delivery workstreams from discovery through production rollout and sustained adoption
Establish mission outcomes, requirements, integrated roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, and acceptance criteria
Coordinate secure architecture, data integration, evaluation, authorization, and production rollout
Surface risks and ensure engagements demonstrate measurable customer value
Maintain accountability for contractual milestones, delivery governance, and acceptance criteria
Build trusted relationships with IC mission owners, analysts, collectors, operators, CIOs, CDOs, CISOs, and acquisition leaders
Own complex IC engagements from discovery and technical shaping through pilot, security authorization, production deployment, customer acceptance, and sustained adoption
Lead technical exchanges, design reviews, and customer briefings
Develop AI applications for intelligence analysis, collection and exploitation workflows, cyber defense, multilingual research, and knowledge retrieval
Lead cross-functional teams spanning engineering, solutions architecture, research, product, security, legal, privacy, and customer mission teams
Establish delivery operating rhythms, program roadmaps, milestone and dependency tracking, risk and decision governance, customer reporting, and mission-impact indicators
Coordinate deployments across approved classified and unclassified environments, IC cloud, restricted networks, and multiple security domains
Work with security and accreditation stakeholders on identity and access management, data handling, cross-domain constraints, RMF, ATO, and ICD 503 requirements
Incorporate human oversight, source provenance, explainability, model evaluations, red-teaming, bias mitigation, and lifecycle monitoring
Manage technical, operational, contractual, and mission risks, changing requirements, integration dependencies, delivery tradeoffs, and escalations
Support relationship-building, opportunity qualification, solution shaping, and proposal development with Account Directors and partners

Skills

AI Deployment Leadership

Secure environments

Stakeholder Management

Cross-Functional Leadership

OpenAI API & Enterprise SaaS

Mission to Requirements Translation

Tools

OpenAI API

Enterprise SaaS

IC Cloud

Restricted Networks

Identity and Access Management

RMF/ATO

Job description

Identify, shape, and deliver OpenAI's highest-impact deployments for U.S. intelligence organizations
Translate mission priorities into secure, technically feasible AI deployments using the OpenAI API and enterprise products
Partner with Research, Engineering, Go-to-Market, Security, Legal, Privacy, and government stakeholders
Own end-to-end execution of technical delivery workstreams from discovery through production rollout and sustained adoption
Establish mission outcomes, requirements, integrated roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, and acceptance criteria
Coordinate secure architecture, data integration, evaluation, authorization, and production rollout
Surface risks and ensure engagements demonstrate measurable customer value
Maintain accountability for contractual milestones, delivery governance, and acceptance criteria
Build trusted relationships with IC mission owners, analysts, collectors, operators, CIOs, CDOs, CISOs, and acquisition leaders
Own complex IC engagements from discovery and technical shaping through pilot, security authorization, production deployment, customer acceptance, and sustained adoption
Lead technical exchanges, design reviews, and customer briefings
Develop AI applications for intelligence analysis, collection and exploitation workflows, cyber defense, multilingual research, and knowledge retrieval
Lead cross-functional teams spanning engineering, solutions architecture, research, product, security, legal, privacy, and customer mission teams
Establish delivery operating rhythms, program roadmaps, milestone and dependency tracking, risk and decision governance, customer reporting, and mission-impact indicators
Coordinate deployments across approved classified and unclassified environments, IC cloud, restricted networks, and multiple security domains
Work with security and accreditation stakeholders on identity and access management, data handling, cross-domain constraints, RMF, ATO, and ICD 503 requirements
Incorporate human oversight, source provenance, explainability, model evaluations, red-teaming, bias mitigation, and lifecycle monitoring
Manage technical, operational, contractual, and mission risks, changing requirements, integration dependencies, delivery tradeoffs, and escalations
Support relationship-building, opportunity qualification, solution shaping, and proposal development with Account Directors and partners

Requirements

10+ years of experience leading technical programs, enterprise AI or cloud deployments, intelligence mission transformation, or national security consulting
Substantial direct delivery experience with U.S. Intelligence Community customers
Active U.S. Government TS/SCI clearance
Willingness to travel up to 50%
Willingness to work on-site with IC customers in secure facilities
Understanding of Intelligence Community missions, organizations, operating models, and analytic tradecraft
Experience supporting agencies or elements such as ODNI, CIA, NSA, DIA, NGA, or NRO
Experience leading complex generative AI, AI/ML, enterprise SaaS, API, data-platform, cloud, or digital-transformation programs from discovery through operational deployment
Executive presence and experience advising agency leadership, mission owners, contracting officers, and senior technical stakeholders
Ability to translate mission outcomes into requirements, statements of work, integrated schedules, acceptance criteria, evaluation plans, and measurable success metrics
Experience delivering systems across multiple classification levels and navigating secure cloud and restricted environments
Familiarity with IC enterprise IT, identity and access controls, data governance, cross-domain constraints, RMF/ATO processes, and ICD 503
Understanding of modern AI solution architectures, including large language models, enterprise APIs, retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, data integration, and model evaluation
Experience applying responsible‑AI practices, including human-in-the-loop review, analytic objectivity, source and data provenance, privacy and civil liberties safeguards, explainability, adversarial testing, and ongoing model monitoring
Existing full-scope polygraph and ability to meet customer-specific access requirements are strongly preferred
Existing IC customer relationships are beneficial but not required

Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive experience in leading technical programs and AI deployments within the U.S. Intelligence Community, with a strong focus on translating mission priorities into actionable requirements and ensuring secure, effective delivery across multiple environments.

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