Top Senior Level Jobs in Washington, DC

Leads media and public relations strategy, oversees multimedia news and messaging, builds relationships with journalists and influencers, directs rapid-response and crisis communications, and positions the organization as an authoritative voice. Manages content across earned, owned, and paid channels, trains spokespeople, tracks media KPIs, optimizes audience engagement, and manages budgets while coordinating with legal and organizational leaders.

Manages commercial banking relationships with businesses generating $5–25 million in revenue. Sources and develops lending, deposit, and financial services opportunities; negotiates terms; coordinates underwriting and loan closings; and grows portfolio revenue. Reviews financial statements, monitors credit quality and risk ratings, resolves troubled credits, ensures regulatory compliance, and serves as the primary client contact. Builds regional referral networks, identifies cross-sell opportunities, and achieves sales goals while balancing client needs and bank risk.

Build and maintain metadata capture, transformation, and delivery pipelines for a data management platform. Develop backend services with Python, Java, and Node.js; integrate relational databases and REST APIs; implement Terraform infrastructure; and support GitLab CI/CD. Optimize distributed systems for performance, reliability, scalability, and secure asynchronous processing. Write automated tests, troubleshoot services using operational metrics, and contribute to AI/ML metadata pipelines, search, data lake, and LLM-powered initiatives.

Supports business development and marketing initiatives for public policy, regulatory, and government affairs practices. Responsibilities include business planning, thought leadership, events, competitive intelligence, directory submissions, CRM management, proposals, presentations, marketing content, matter data, and profile development. The role partners with lawyers and firm leadership, manages projects independently, mentors junior staff, and supports strategic growth across offices and practices.

Administers and troubleshoots enterprise network infrastructure, including routers, switches, VLANs, ACLs, routing protocols, and cryptographic devices. Performs network changes, IOS upgrades, provisioning, incident resolution, root-cause analysis, STIG implementation, SOP development, site surveys, and network refresh projects. Requires independent problem-solving in remote locations, Cisco and Juniper expertise, TACLANE configuration knowledge, Cisco ISE familiarity, CCNA, IAT II, and TS/SCI clearance.

Own and grow Mattermost’s Intelligence Community territory through enterprise SaaS sales, strategic renewals, expansion, and net-new acquisition. Lead complex, multi-million-dollar sales involving security reviews, ATO processes, classified procurement, and executive stakeholders. Build co-sell relationships with cleared Federal Systems Integrators, manage partner-influenced opportunities, maintain Salesforce forecasting discipline, and achieve annual revenue quotas across IC agencies and mission-aligned organizations.

Manage and scale infrastructure across data centers and AWS using infrastructure-as-code, automation, and configuration management. Build and operate secure, maintainable deployments involving Kubernetes, EKS, containers, databases, firewalls, and AWS-native services. Improve system performance, observability, testing, and operational processes while collaborating with DevOps, platform, security, data science, and product teams. Lead major projects, mentor engineers, document solutions, and promote Agile engineering best practices in a regulated environment.

Lead federal sales efforts across Civilian and Defense agencies, managing the full enterprise software sales cycle from prospecting through close. Develop new business, expand customer relationships, engage federal systems integrators, and sell CloudBees’ CI/CD, DevSecOps, AI-assisted software development, and automation solutions. Navigate complex procurement cycles, build executive relationships, exceed quotas, close large deals, and communicate technical and mission impact to federal stakeholders.

Build and evolve Unity’s PolySpatial core technology across low-level C++ and high-level C# systems. Design high-performance APIs for embedded, cross-process, and networked environments; manage execution timing and resource contention; and synchronize assets and components under bandwidth and latency constraints. Responsibilities include engine architecture, serialization, runtime performance, multithreading, networking, and end-to-end implementation and debugging.

Supports federal government affairs strategy across congressional and agency engagement, appropriations, authorization, policy analysis, stakeholder mapping, and executive briefings. Monitors legislation, budgets, regulations, and hearings; develops policy materials and engagement plans; coordinates government meetings, industry coalitions, consultants, and internal technical teams; and supports lobbying, compliance, and funding efforts related to quantum technology, national security, space, energy, and critical infrastructure.