Vice President – Defense & Security

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🔥 16 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $210k - $270k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Skylight

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2017

💼 Consulting

🏛️ Government

Consulting • Government • Technology

Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help agencies deliver better public services. With a focus on modernizing government services through human-centered design and lean-agile engineering, Skylight empowers public servants to enhance their capabilities in the digital era. Combining government and commercial expertise, the company is dedicated to solving the toughest digital challenges faced by agencies and fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement in the public sector.

📋 Description

• Own and expand Skylight’s portfolio of work with defense and security customers, managing it as an independent business • Research and interpret market drivers, including policy shifts, mission priorities, funding patterns, and evolving threat landscapes • Understand defense and security customers’ goals, challenges, and requirements • Translate market insights and customer feedback into innovative or enhanced service offerings • Build strategic relationships with government stakeholders, mission leadership, change agents, and vendor partners • Identify and pursue new business opportunities • Lead and oversee bid and proposal processes to secure client engagements • Transform client objectives and constraints into customized engagement strategies • Assemble and manage multidisciplinary teams using talent sourcing and subcontracting with vendor partners • Provide oversight and visibility into the status, health, and effectiveness of client engagements • Facilitate retrospectives with clients and Skylight teams and implement actionable improvements • Provide hands-on client delivery support when necessary • Oversee and support operational functions, including human resource management

🎯 Requirements

• Experience in defense, homeland security, or justice mission environments • Ability to manage a multi-million-dollar profit & loss business, including multiple client engagements with multiple subcontractors • Ability to sustain and grow a professional services business through business development, opportunity capture, and bid & proposal • Strong understanding of how a professional services and government contracting business works • Startup mentality, including a high degree of entrepreneurialism and resourcefulness • Excellent general management and leadership skills • Outstanding organizational skills, including attention to detail • Excellent people management skills • Experience building and managing high-performing teams • Relentless commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion • Collaborative, supportive leadership style • Excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills • Strong business acumen • Superb written and oral communication skills • Relentless commitment to excellence and quality in everything we do • Strong understanding of business functions such as people ops, finance, marketing, business development, etc. • Ability to collect, analyze, and derive actionable insights from financial, operational, and performance data • Ability to serve as a coach/mentor to other leaders and managers • Ability to work successfully within a professional services environment (e.g., can communicate effectively with clients) • Passionate about creating better public outcomes through great government services • A mindset and work approach that aligns with our core values • Ability to travel for work from time to time • All work must be conducted within the U.S., excluding U.S. territories • Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future without sponsorship • May be required to obtain a public trust or security clearance • May be required to complete a company background check successfully • Some federal contracts require U.S. citizenship to be eligible for employment • Nice-to-have: Prior experience working in the civic tech space • Nice-to-have: Experience working in a remote-team environment

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance • Short-term and long-term disability insurance • Life and AD&D insurance • Dependent care FSA, healthcare FSA, health savings account • Dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 10% of your salary with no vesting period • Flexible paid-time-off policy (generally around 25 days per year), plus 11 paid federal holidays • Up to 12 weeks paid-time-off for all eligible new birth, adoption, or foster parents • Performance rewards, including annual salary increase, annual performance bonus, spot bonuses, and stock options • Company performance and growth bonuses • Referral bonuses • Annual $2,000 allowance for professional development • Annual $750 allowance for tech-related purchases • Annual swag budget of $100 to display your Skylight pride with some merchandise (hoodies, hats, and more) • Flexible, remote-friendly work environment • An environment that empowers you to unleash your superpowers for public good

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