Program Director

Description

Unleash Your Potential with Leidos

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• Professional Growth: Our comprehensive training programs and career development pathways ensure you excel.

• Collaborative Culture: Join a close-knit team of dedicated professionals who value your expertise and insights.

The Leidos Defense Sector has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Information Operations Technical SME / Program Manager to join our team.

Job Summary:

The selected candidate will serve as a senior technical and operational Subject Matter Expert supporting the development, integration, and execution of Information Operations (IO), influence operations, Military Information Support Operations (MISO)/PSYOP, and gray-zone capabilities. The individual will support active IO campaigns and initiatives while helping shape, capture, transition, and potentially manage future IO-related programs across the Department of War.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Serve as the technical and operational SME for IO, MISO/PSYOP, influence operations, and gray-zone operations, translating mission requirements into executable technical solutions.

• Support the planning and execution of IO/influence campaigns, including audience analysis, information environment assessment, campaign design, measures of performance/effectiveness, and assessment.

• Work with software developers, data scientists, intelligence analysts, operators, and mission SMEs to translate operational requirements into technical capabilities and product enhancements.

• Support integration and operationalization of Imperium and complementary data/analytics capabilities for IO/MISO missions.

• Develop technical concepts, workflows, demonstrations, use cases, CONOPS, and solution architectures supporting customer mission requirements.

• Serve as a customer-facing SME during demonstrations, technical exchanges, exercises, experimentation, and capability-development activities.

• Identify capability gaps and recommend new technologies, data sources, partnerships, and development priorities.

• Support business development, capture, solutioning, proposal development, and customer engagement for IO/MISO/influence opportunities.

• Help develop the company's broader IO/Influence Operations growth strategy and opportunity pipeline, particularly across USSOCOM, CENTCOM, ACC/16 AF, service components, and other organizations with IO/influence missions.

• Participate in color teams, technical solution development, oral presentations, proposal writing, staffing development, BOEs, transition planning, and program startup.

• Serve as a bid Program Manager for future IO-related contract awards, with responsibility for customer relationships, personnel, technical execution, schedule, financial performance, and growth.

Required Qualifications:

• At least 15 years of IO/PSYOPS experience with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.

• Experience leading similar technical requirements within the past five years.

• Bachelors Degree.

• Minimum of 5 years’ of experience leading large IO/PSYOP support projects, programs, or organizations.

• Current TS/SCI security clearance with the ability to pass polygraph, if required.

• Current Project Management Professional Citification (PMP) or ability to attain within 90 days of hire.

• Ability to telework with approximately 50% travel.

Preferred Qualifications.

• Master’s Degree

• Knowledge and recent experience leading efforts with the SOCOM SREC and/or JMWC

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting:

September 10, 2026

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $154,050.00 - $278,475.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit .

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