About the role#
As a Mission Manager SkillBridge intern, you will gain hands-on experience working alongside Tech Leads, Mission Managers, and Growth professionals. You will contribute to defense tech solutions while exploring your future career path. This role is for someone who is curious, adaptable, and ready to learn the details of driving customer success, managing mission outcomes, and building relationships.
What you'll do#
- Manage the transformation and deployment of cybersecurity applications into Kubernetes-based environments, ranging from cloud to bare-metal platforms.
- Serve as the Mission Manager for an assigned Delivery Effort.
- Coordinate between Application Development and Platform teams to ensure timelines are met, blockers are removed, and best practices are upheld.
- Collaborate with Tech Leads to establish technical roadmaps for Mission Outcomes.
- Align Product Roadmaps with technical roadmaps and provide feedback on feature delivery dates.
- Translate technical progress into clear updates to foster cross-team collaboration.
- Facilitate feedback from the Delivery segment to the Product segment regarding open-source projects and services.
- Balance priorities from users, customers, and stakeholders to deliver scalable mission value.
- Foster team growth, mentorship, and company values.
What you'll need#
- Eligibility for the DoD SkillBridge program and must be within 180 days of separating from service.
- U.S. citizenship is required.
- A current security clearance or the ability to obtain one.
- Ability to contribute to product vision and align technical solutions with long-term objectives.
- Experience evaluating methods to solve complex business problems.
- Experience assessing new products and their impact on mission objectives.
- Proficiency in identifying process gaps and shaping a product backlog.
- Expertise in solving technical problems across multiple domains.
- A focus on product excellence when weighing different business solutions.
- Majors in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Business Administration are relevant to this work.
Location & details#
- This is a full-time, paid internship.
- The position is remote within the United States.
- We recruit for SkillBridge on a rolling basis.
About Defense Unicorns
Defense Unicorns builds platform technologies for secure mission systems. Founded in 2021, the company operates out of Colorado Springs. It employs between 51 and 200 people. The firm focuses on open architecture platforms to support federal and Department of Defense programs. Its work centers on software development and integration.
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