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# Senior Information Operations Technical SME / Program Manager

- **Company:** Leidos, Inc.
- **Location:** Tampa, FL, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $154,050.0 - $278,475.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Intelligence Analysis, Data Analytics
- **Published:** September 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9155823/senior-information-operations-technical-sme-program-manager

## About the Role

* 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

## Description

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., * 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.


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