Mission Execution Lead (UK)

The role

The Mission Execution Lead owns the end-to-end planning and execution of customer demonstrations, exercises, contracts, and deliveries. This person acts as the bridge between customers and CHAOS across the UK, Europe, and the Middle East.

What you will do

• Build trust with international militaries and translate their needs to CHAOS.
• Own planning and delivering demonstrations, exercises, site surveys, customer training, contract milestones and deliveries.
• Align engineering, product, operations and leadership around a single plan.
• Identify and address risks to schedule, mission, reputation and personnel.
• Understand products and technology to act as a subject matter expert.
• Work alongside customers in the field and with hardware.
• Contextualise and collate customer feedback for engineering, product management and senior leadership.

Required qualifications

• Ownership and a proactive, forward-leaning mindset.
• Technical fluency to learn complex products and technology.
• Collaborative and team-minded.
• Problem-solving mentality.
• Proven experience in developing requirements, scoping programs, and delivering to customers in the defense industry.
• Comfortable in the field and working with hardware.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Voice of the customer.
• Risk tolerance.
• Ability and interest to travel (50%, with flexibility for higher travel periods) to customer sites across Europe and the Middle East, and to offices in LA and Washington DC.
• Existing UK security clearance, or eligibility to obtain it.

Nice to have

• Radar, RF, sensor, weapons systems, defence technology or communications experience.
• Extensive experience working with European militaries, or a military engineering or Special Forces technology background.
• Travel experience including organizing and navigating overseas engagements and operating in remote areas.

Benefits

• private medical, dental and vision benefits (for employees & dependents) will be 100% paid for by the company
• 5% pension match
• competitive base salaries
• generous pre-IPO stock option grants
• relocation assistance
• annual bonuses

Before you apply

• CHAOS Industries does not accept unsolicited resumes or outreach.

About the company

CHAOS Industries was founded in 2022 and has raised a total of $1 billion in funding. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, and London.