Job Description

Unleash Your Potential

At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customer’s success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business.

If this sounds like an environment where you can thrive, keep reading!

The Mission

Leidos is seeking a Portfolio Director for The Space Force and Air Force IT Division to lead growth in our Air and Space Enterprise IT portfolio of programs. The selected candidate will lead a portfolio with the potential of more than $130M annually with responsibilities for managing cost, schedule, performance with an emphasis on the growth aspect of the portfolio.

Primary Tasks:

• Manage all aspects of the profit and loss (P&L) for the portfolio; reporting financial numbers on a monthly basis and working with the Division Manager on long-term demand and forecast planning.
• Responsible for the quality and efficiency of the portfolio’s performance, to include both technical issues and businesses processes. Develop corrective actions for any quality deficiencies and promulgate those improvements with other portfolio directors in adjacent markets.
• Develop a leadership team and technical talent throughout organization with a focus on building professional development plans, training opportunities, succession planning, and other people leader skills across the portfolio.
• Provide training on new capabilities, processes, and products introduced through digital transformation projects to standardize practices, mitigate risks, and improve user satisfaction.
• Develop and implement portfolio’s growth strategy in coordination with the Leidos growth team, actively participate in new business reviews, proposal reviews, customer engagements, and other growth-related activities.
• Partner with the technology community to facilitate feeding portfolio, priorities into the technology roadmap discussion; facilitate customer technology exchanges at the Leidos LENS, leverage the practice areas for repeatable offerings on programs and bids.
• Facilitate culture change initiatives to support organizational growth and agility including organizational change management, communications, engagement, and training. Identify and address potential training needs to enhance user proficiency.
• Foster an environment of employee growth and development, promoting continuous learning and provide opportunities for skill enhancement.
• Translate complex technical and operational realities into clear, actionable guidance for senior government and stakeholders to enable informed decision-making.
• Communicate critical and time sensitive portfolio-related information directly to the Division Manager, or other delegated Government program personnel.
• Perform as key point of contact for client relations and engage regularly to determine priorities based on the Customer guidance.
• Maintain awareness of risk posture across portfolio; work with program and task order managers to ensure effective and pro-active mitigation; monetize identified risks, and collaborate with program managers to buy down risk through effective program and change management.

Education & Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field and 15+ years combined experience managing and/or executing the planning, provisioning, and delivery of network services, and/or other technically complex information technologies services to large organizations internationally.
• Specialized experience: At least five years combined experience managing the planning, provisioning, and delivery of IT services to large organizations. This experience shall include regular communications with the supported organization’s senior executives and direct accountability for managed activities.
• Previous experience as a Leidos portfolio Manager or equivalent with broad expertise guiding complex global-enterprise level projects and operations across multiple related IT disciplines throughout the project lifecycle.
• Leading P&L organizations of at least $50M in annual revenue; successful record of growing the business or P&L.
• Possesses broad knowledge base with key IT technologies to include but not limited to: network service delivery, network operations, defensive cyber, data center and cloud, and information assurance.
• Ability to communicate with executive leadership regarding matters of significant importance to the organization.
• Experience and ability to successfully negotiate and influence others to understand and accept new concepts, practices, and approaches.
• Experience estimating all technical and operations costs with the IT enterprise.
• Experience identifying and assessing business impacts to proposed changes to a largely technical solution or enterprise operations.
• Must have an active DOD Secret level security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in related field.
• Knowledge and experience with USSF and USAF plans, policies, standards, and methods
• Demonstrated ability to lead and direct a high execution tempo multi-team effort.
• Knowledge of DoD industry/government best practices.
• U.S. Citizenship required with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance.
  

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:

May 6, 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.