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LAYIQ - Command Mission Operations Lead at Twenty, Fort Meade, MD

Execution against account strategy
Translate company strategy into the deployment and operationalization plan for a portfolio of accounts within a command — approach, growth, training model, and staffing posture — built from scratch where none exists.
Direct a team of Deployment Managers and Forward Deployed Analysts assigned to your account: set their lines of effort, resource them to mission priority, hold the standard, and own what the team delivers.
Own the framing and positioning for renewal and growth conversations, using account-wide engagement metrics and competitive context to make the case.
Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership
Serve as Twenty's primary interface to task force and command leadership (O-5, O-6, GS-15): what the product is doing for the mission, where it goes next, and how it changes force employment.
Build and sustain a champion network across the account, from mission team and task force technical leads up to commanders and their senior civilians, and turn those relationships into deep cross-functional advocacy.
Brief senior leadership (SES, GOFO) on mission impact serving their priorities — operational outcomes, force generation, and resourcing.
Define successful force and capability employment across an organization
Shape the account's training strategy and the systems that scale it: standard curricula, train-the-trainer models, and institutional channels (J7 curriculum, JQR standards) that outlive any one engagement.
Translate mission requirements into product direction — own the engagement strategy for new capability from alpha through production release, and mentor your team on how to diagnose the true capability gaps and requirements that Twenty is postured to address.
Understand and orient your team and company leadership to what is true in the ambiguous field operating picture across the portfolio: users, stakeholders, workflows, blockers, adoption signals, risks, and value stories.
Mentor the Deployment and Forward Deployed Analyst team, and help set the talent bar as the team scales.
Who You Are
You came out of CYBERCOM, SOCOM, NSA, or CIA — most likely as an O-5/O-6, a Warrant Officer, or a GS-14/15. You held a command, a task force deputy or operations role, a technical directorate, or a senior advisory seat where the mission outcome was yours to answer for.
12+ years in offensive cyber, cyber operations, or intelligence operations, including 5+ years in a leadership or senior advisory role at USCYBERCOM, NSA, or CIA.
Leader or technical director of a cyber mission element, task force, or operations directorate — CNMF, a JFHQ-C, a CMT/CST construct, an NSA operations or technical directorate, or a CIA or SOCOM equivalent.
Track record of advising a commander or senior executives on operational employment: what to task, what to accept, what to stop, and what the authorities allowed.
Owned targeting, mission planning, execution support, or assessment at a level where you shaped the campaign, not just the engagement.
Sat in requirements, capability development, or acquisition conversations and know how a capability actually reaches an operator — and where that path usually breaks.
Ability to learn complex software quickly and explain it credibly to operators, targeters, program staff, and flag-level leadership.
Strong written communication. You turn ambiguous field input into concise requirements, decision memos, and executive-ready summaries.
Prior experience in a commercial product, deployment, or capability-delivery role supporting national security customers is a plus, not a requirement.
You are technically credible without being the engineer in the room. Operators respect you because you have been one or led them; leadership listens to you because you tell them the uncomfortable part first. You are comfortable operating with wide latitude — you build the plan, then run it.
Occasional travel for customer engagements, training, and mission support is required.

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