Board of Advisors Member

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Provide strategic counsel to the CEO and leadership team regarding strategy, positioning, market entry, partnerships, and risk management.

• Enhance the confidence of customers and partners through relevant expertise and an independent viewpoint.

• Facilitate targeted access to buyers, influencers, acquisition pathways, operational users, investors, and strategic partners.

• Assist in differentiating between urgent customer needs and lower-priority product requests along with organizational growth.

• Support the company's objective of achieving initial revenue without incurring a significant fixed-cost structure.

• Advise on the sequence of market entry, business model development, pricing and packaging strategies, partnerships, capital strategies, and the transition from pilot projects to recurring revenue.

• Make strategic introductions to decision-makers, operational leaders, acquisition officials, channel partners, prime contractors, investors, and other relevant stakeholders.

• Aid in refining value propositions, preparing for executive meetings, validating pilot offers, interpreting buyer needs, and transforming engagements into sustainable sales and renewal opportunities.

• Offer insights into counter-UAS, force protection, critical infrastructure, readiness, training, test and evaluation, government procurement, and international market requirements.

• Identify high-value partners, enhance market credibility, and represent Elessar at selected engagements upon request and agreement.

• Highlight strategic, reputational, security, export-control, government sales, conflict-of-interest, and execution risks.

• Safeguard confidential information and refrain from making commitments on behalf of Elessar without written authorization.

• Participate in quarterly advisory meetings and focused working sessions.

• Coordinate external outreach with the CEO or designated executive.

• Ensure compliance with confidentiality and intellectual property obligations and protect nonpublic information.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven senior leadership experience in a field directly relevant to Elessar’s customers, markets, technologies, acquisition pathways, training missions, or capital strategies.

• Established judgment, credibility, and a reputation for ethical conduct.

• Relevant network with a willingness to facilitate selective introductions when there is a clear alignment.

• Capability to provide direct, independent advice while respecting management accountability and the authority of the Board of Directors.

• Ability to safeguard confidential, proprietary, customer, security-sensitive, and export-controlled information.

• No unresolved conflicts of interest that would compromise objective advice or Elessar’s customer relationships.

• Preferred: experience with UAS, counter-UAS, air defense, force protection, homeland security, critical infrastructure, operational readiness, simulation, or SaaS.

• Preferred: background in selling to, buying for, or delivering services within U.S. federal, defense, public safety, critical infrastructure, or allied government markets.

• Preferred: familiarity with government procurement, contracting pathways, technology adoption, operational pilots, or non-dilutive funding.

• Preferred: experience aiding an early-stage company in securing initial revenue, establishing a repeatable pipeline, raising capital, or scaling recurring revenue.

• Ability to assess customer relevance without exaggerating fielded functionality or making unsupported commitments.

• Ability to maintain trust through careful stewardship of relationships.

• Ability to constructively challenge assumptions and provide candid advice.

• Participate in quarterly advisory meetings and targeted working sessions as mutually agreed.

• Review briefing materials in advance and come prepared with specific advice, introductions, or decisions for management consideration.

• Execute necessary confidentiality and intellectual property documents.

• Promptly disclose actual or potential conflicts and recuse oneself when appropriate.

🏝️ Benefits

• Compensation may be structured as equity, a retainer, success-based compensation, or a combination thereof.

• Expense reimbursement may be provided as outlined in the advisory agreement.

• Vesting and performance conditions may be applicable.

• Reasonable accommodations are available where applicable.