FAST Labs - R3 Product Line Campaign Strategy Lead (Director II) Jobs

Campaign Lead

FAST Labs™ is a world-class research and microelectronics production organization. Our vision, we secure the future through fearless innovation, fuels our curiosity, and propels our teams to take on 'never been done before' challenges. We believe how we work is just as important as what we work on, and we are guided by three key principles:
We are one team who embraces the power of learning and collaboration;
We innovate for impact; and Our innovation is multidimensional. Sitting at the heart of BAE Systems Electronic Systems (ES), FAST Labs provides the next generation of technology across ES's defense and commercial portfolios. We seek to turn groundbreaking research and partnerships into real-life impact for our customers, as we develop advanced capabilities in advanced electronics, EW, sensors and processing, AI, autonomy, RF, EO/IR, cyber, and more.

We value internal and external partnerships and collaborate across a broad innovation ecosystem that includes DoW/IC labs and research teams, universities, small businesses, and venture firms/accelerators - all in service of developing advanced technologies to enable our nation's war fighting mission needs.

To help drive even greater impact for our business and our customers, FAST Labs has embarked on a strategy of Mission Campaigning. Mission Campaigning is a holistic mindset and approach to technology/product conceptualization and prioritization. It involves a continuous focus on a definitive path to drive from early science to end-user capability to solve a war fighter problem and deliver a product/capability as quickly as possible to fielding and scaling.

Campaigns include the creation of new markets and business models, if necessary to deliver the product/capability. It is similar to what entrepreneurs call a 'go to market strategy'.

As part of this pivot to Mission Campaigning, FAST Labs is establishing the position of Campaign Lead in each product line (PL). These Campaign Leads will work internally to support the PL in applying the Mission Campaign mindset and externally with the FAST Labs Campaign Strategy Director and Campaign Leads in other PLs to form a Mission Campaign collaboration network.

The R3 (RF Cyber - Attack Defend Support) Product Line develops technologies across cyber, networking, RF signal processing, and communications. These technologies are developed to apply to the domains of communications, radar, electronic warfare, signals intelligence, and spectrum organization and optimization. Our innovative R&D enables the rapid development and fielding of effects across the RF/cyber spectrum for next generation mission support.

The aim is to reduce the timeline to cross the 'valley of death' between disruptive R&D technologies and their operational use.

We are seeking an experienced leader to join our R3 Product Line as a Campaign Lead to guide a shift to mission-focused campaigns across the PL. Reporting directly to the Product Line Director (PLD), the Campaign Lead's job responsibilities include the following:

• Lead the shaping and communication of R3 mission campaigns.
• Help propagate through the PL descriptions of current and future threats, as well as current and projected future blue force design and strategy developed by the ES Mission Integration Cell and FAST Labs Mission Assessments (MA) teams. Help explain these scenarios and mission threads to R3 technologists.
• In conjunction with the FAST Labs Campaign Director, lead key personnel in R3 in analyzing the mission threads and scenarios relevant to R3 technology and in brainstorming new capabilities R3 could develop to address critical gaps and create new war fighting opportunities.
• Provide insights into the complexities of employing and sustaining new technologies in an operational setting. Support program teams with higher-maturity capabilities to help develop their own campaigns to transition their technologies to fieldable programs of record.
• Possess or develop a deep understanding of the government acquisition system and support program teams to develop new business models to transition and mature their capabilities faster and more adaptively.
• Help teams find interim government customers to support development of these business models and other transition experiments, bridging the gap between S&T and a traditional PEO.
• Develop and foster an entrepreneurial mindset throughout the PL for developing and executing strategies to rapidly and consistently develop impactful technologies and products and getting those technologies and products across the valley of death.
• Supported by the FAST Labs Campaign Director and other PL Campaign Leads, develop an understanding of capabilities in other PLs across FAST Labs and other ES Business Areas to identify opportunities for collaboration and application to/from R3 challenges.

Because this role involves a combination of collaborative/in-person and independent work, it will take the form of a hybrid work format, with time split between…