Technology Transition and Industry Engagement Principal

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MITRE is seeking an experienced professional to accelerate Industry Engagement within the Technology Transition and Partnership Office. MITRE's industry engagement approach is to serve as a multi-disciplinary trusted catalyst for industry enablement, offering distinctive capabilities and subject matter expertise to help our government sponsors rapidly integrate the right commercial solutions into critical mission programs. These initiatives encompass current and future activities characterized by early, consistent, and cooperative engagement with industry on behalf of the government, and with government oversight. This includes government-facing work, internally funded research, and the development of future programs. Program activities align with industry-engaged mission engineering, market-informed open architecture development and compliance, speeding access to mission-enabling digital and physical infrastructure, mission-driven research and prototyping for transition to industry, acceleration of commercial acquisition, and more.

Roles & Responsibilities:

This position offers the ability to take a key role in developing, experimenting, and refining MITRE's overall approach for industry enablement, engaging with industry and academia, and coaching MITRE staff on Industry Engagement models. This individual contributor position offers the opportunity to lead projects with impact across all of MITRE (MITRE Public Sector, MITRE National Security, and MITRE Technology and Engineering) and will have frequent and in-depth engagement with external organizations such as industry, associations, academia, and government.

• Develop clear IP technology transition full lifecycle pathways in collaboration with MITRE Research & Development and prototype teams to accelerate real world adoption of capabilities into government missions, commercial use, and dual-use.
  • This requires a holistic approach from R&D concept or prototype development; including: IP protection strategies, market and ecosystem analysis, tech scouting and scanning, cultivating long-term partnerships with industry, and leading IP licensing or other agreement terms and conditions negotiations.
• Support the establishment of enabling industry access and use of MITRE infrastructure - labs, digitals tools, and more.
  • Support the development of new policies, procedures, and agreements to create a front door to MITRE.
• Support the execution of the MITRE industry engagement strategy and Nexus playbook with a whole of government approach and diverse acceleration models.
  • Structure performance metrics to evaluate effectiveness including sustained mission impact, speed to capability adoption, and cost effectiveness
• Develop deep insights and anticipate trends to enhance future industry enablement and engagement opportunities

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 8 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 5 years' experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Demonstrated track record of successfully planning, coordinating, and delivering complex technology products and/or outcomes that require extensive coordination of multiple contributing organizations from vision to successful realization
• Understanding of the government's effort to accelerate commercial solutions and increase capabilities related to critical and emerging technologies especially related to non-traditional suppliers
• Strategic thinker who can synthesize large amounts of information quickly and communicate key information areas to large audiences/venues, social media, external web presence, and internal portals and communication channels
• Ability to balance progress on medium- and long-term projects with short-term deliverables, on-budget; matrix management of technical and project resources, and digital and physical labs
• Exceptional verbal, writing, and collaboration skills - relationship builder
• Strong cross-functional leadership, decision-making, and multi-tasking abilities; enjoys meeting the needs of internal and external customers
• Passion for public sector impact
• Secret clearance required
• Per the U.S. Government's eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance
• This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site

Preferred Qualifications:

• Leadership role with industry organizations, technology councils, and incubators, accelerators and/or tech start-up ecosystems focused on government or dual-use tech
• Public Private Partnership and/or OT/OTA management and development
• IP Tech Transfer / IP Tech Transition / Commercialization of Technology licensing experience with certification
• GenAI and SharePoint development skills
• Advanced degree, Engineering or relevant field

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):
Secret

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):
Secret

Salary compensation range and midpoint:
$151,500 - $189,500 - $227,500 Annual

Work Location Type:
Onsite

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