Deployment Strategist

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

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of a program from start to finish: determine what success looks like, identify the key problems to address, prioritize their resolution, and define the objectives for each milestone.

• Collaborate closely with government and industry clients to grasp their missions, constraints, and political landscapes, fostering relationships from end users to program executives that ensure sustainable deployments.

• Establish direction and priorities for a small Forward Deployed Engineering team, directly connecting engineers with users while safeguarding their time from non-essential tasks.

• Take charge of the growth strategy: ensuring that option years, follow-ons, and expansions are informed by achieved outcomes, which you are accountable for developing within the relationship.

• Relay insights gained in the field back to product and engineering teams, enhancing the platform for every customer rather than just the one in front of you.

• Engage day-to-day at or travel to customer locations, testing events, hackathons, and program milestones as required. Travel is primarily domestic, although some customer interactions may necessitate international travel.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in owning outcomes without formal authority over team members, finding this energizing rather than intimidating.

• Deep familiarity with the relevant customer domain, gained from firsthand experience, along with a clear understanding of existing inefficiencies in the current system.

• Domain expertise in allied military aircraft development, including experience with multinational teams, disconnected Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) toolchains, and navigating engineering data through companies, suppliers, and export regulations prior to design closure.

• Technical proficiency across modeling and simulation, MBSE, digital threads, software development, and/or agentic design: sufficient to critically assess engineering claims and be credible in discussions, without necessarily needing to build the systems yourself.

• Strong product acumen, as this role aligns more closely with product management than project management: understanding what to develop next and what to avoid, differentiating between a user-specific request and a platform-wide capability.

• Versatility to brief a program executive in the morning and collaborate with an engineer in the afternoon.

• An ability to read organizational dynamics and room atmospheres, as successful adoption hinges on navigating the customer’s organizational structure as much as on the software itself.

• Comfort in dealing with incomplete information and evolving requirements, coupled with the initiative to outline next steps independently.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonuses

• Equity

• Comprehensive benefits package