Mission Architect

The role

The Mission Architect is a senior domain expert embedded on a product team. You will translate operational workflows and constraints into product requirements, acceptance criteria, and user experiences.

What you will do

• Translate complex user workflows and constraints into requirements and user stories.
• Partner with the Product Manager to shape PRDs and refine scope.
• Define and refine acceptance criteria.
• Run the product through realistic end-to-end scenarios to surface usability issues.
• Review features before release to confirm they behave correctly for users.
• Design evaluation scenarios, scoring approaches, and benchmark workflows.
• Shape workflows, information architecture, and interface behavior.
• Serve as the product team's primary domain expert.
• Support customer conversations and demonstrations.
• Surface emerging user needs and new use cases.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on experience as a practitioner in the product's target domain, such as cyber operations, intelligence analysis, capability acquisition, or a comparable field.
• Strong credibility with practitioners in that domain.
• Track record of trusted judgment in high-stakes work.
• Experience translating complex operational workflows into structured product requirements, user stories, or other build-ready documentation.
• Experience helping shape user-facing tools, workflows, or interfaces used in real operational environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills across technical, operational, and executive audiences.
• Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and related teams.
• Strong judgment for defining acceptance criteria and evaluating whether a feature meets user needs.
• Active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph

Nice to have

• Transitioned from a practitioner role into product development, requirements engineering, or capability development.
• Worked with AI/ML-powered products, including agentic systems, LLM-based workflows, or knowledge graph applications.
• Experience in evaluation design, operational test and evaluation, or scenario-based product assessment.
• Created training content, reference materials, or doctrine for operational users.
• Influenced product direction at a software company serving government or defense customers.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plan options.
• Life / AD&D, disability coverage options.
• Paid parental leave: 12 weeks for birthing parents, 4 weeks for non-birthing parents, 6 weeks for adoptive, foster, or intended parents.
• Paid holidays and flexible PTO.
• 401(k) with pre-tax and Roth options.
• HSA/FSA options.
• Dependent care FSA.

Before you apply

• Role is limited to U.S. citizens.
• Requires active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph.

About the company

Twenty Technologies industrializes offensive cyber operations for the U.S. and its allies. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, the company was founded in 2024.