Space and Missile Defense Solutions Growth Operations Lead

About the role

In a world of possibilities, pursue one with endless opportunities. Imagine Next!

At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential. Unleash your talent and redefine what's possible.

About the role

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Growth Operations Lead to join our team! In this role you will get to lead the work that strengthens how our Growth organization operates, connecting people, capabilities, and initiatives across business development, capture, mission engineering, and business teams.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead strategic initiatives from idea to impact. Own cross-functional efforts that advance agreed growth priorities and improve organizational performance. Define outcomes, develop the approach, mobilize the right team, and drive implementation through measurable results.
• Align people and priorities. Partner with Growth, Capture, Mission Engineering, and business leaders to turn priorities into coordinated execution. Establish shared outcomes, clear ownership, and practical delivery plans; work through competing demands and resource tradeoffs.
• Remove barriers to execution. Bring the right leaders together to solve problems that span organizational boundaries. Resolve dependencies, close ownership gaps, and address recurring obstacles across pursuit, technical, proposal, and functional teams. Elevate decisions requiring broader authority.
• Lead change that improves how the team works. Diagnose friction, redesign inefficient workflows, and drive adoption of better practices. Use approved technology, automation, and AI where appropriate. Measure improvements in speed, quality, and team capacity.
• Turn business insight into action. Use pipeline, operational, and financial analysis to identify performance gaps and recommend interventions. Partner with Capture and Finance to assess resource tradeoffs and investment effectiveness; work with accountable leaders to implement improvements.
• Strengthen team decisions and accountability. Establish operating routines that help teams resolve issues, make timely decisions, and deliver on commitments. Focus reviews on choices and actions, use reliable information, and keep important initiatives moving through execution.
• Build lasting organizational capability. Connect teams to expertise, scale practices that work, and turn lessons learned into lasting improvements. Strengthen collaboration and shared accountability so the organization becomes more effective as its missions and opportunities grow.

What Required Skills You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in business, political science, engineering, or a related field and at least seven years of relevant experience. Defense, intelligence, or adjacent government-market experience is preferred.
• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional teams and complex initiatives from an ambiguous problem to a measurable business result. Ability to mobilize experienced professionals and sustain momentum across organizational boundaries.
• Experience leading organizational or operational improvements: diagnosing problems, redesigning ways of working, gaining stakeholder commitment, and driving lasting adoption. Evidence that the changes improved performance, speed, quality, or capacity.
• Strategic, analytical, and financial judgment. Ability to connect business priorities with execution choices, evaluate tradeoffs, develop practical recommendations, and assess whether an initiative is delivering its intended results.
• Strong communication, constructive persistence, and leadership through influence. Confidence working with senior leaders, challenging assumptions, resolving competing priorities, and holding teams to agreed outcomes while building trust. Sound judgment with sensitive information.
• Working knowledge of government business-development and pursuit lifecycles, including qualification, capture, proposals, and forecasting; understanding of how business, technical, and functional teams contribute to successful pursuits.
• Proficiency in Salesforce and Microsoft Office, including Excel and PowerPoint, to support analysis, communication, and team effectiveness. Power BI experience is preferred; ability to adopt approved tools that improve how work gets done.
• Ability to obtain a Top Secret security clearance

Security Clearance Requirement

None

This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.

The Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what's next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.

Salary Range

$103,500.00 - $181,100.00

We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!

This position will be posted for a minimum of 3 days and will continue to be posted for an average of 30 days until a qualified applicant is selected or the position has been cancelled.

We truly invest and care about our employee's wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest-APPLY TODAY!

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