Capability Strategist, IAMD

The role

You will own the integrated air and missile defense capability strategy across air defense radar and interceptor products. You will translate warfighter needs into engineering requirements and provide operational context for business development and marketing.

What you will do

• Own the IAMD capability strategy.
• Translate warfighter needs for engineering.
• Contextualize the mission for business development and marketing.
• Build and hold the air defense relationships.
• Shape the roadmap and capture priorities.
• Translate current and future concepts of operation into mission engineering and operations analysis design.
• Identify unmet operational needs across the air defense kill chain.
• Enable the translation of validated intelligence community products into modeling parameters and scenario constructs.
• Lead blue force CONOP-informed scenario development.
• Maintain continuous awareness of adversary threats, capabilities, and evolving TTPs.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher, or equivalent military operational and analytical experience.
• 10+ years of experience in military operations, defense, intelligence, or advanced technology programs through government or industry employment.
• Recent, substantial air and missile defense operations experience in a deployed or operational environment.
• Direct experience employing air defense sensors and interceptors against a peer or near-peer adversary or in a contested theater.
• Demonstrated ability to explain operational needs to technical audiences and technical capabilities to operational audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to operate with limited guidance.
• Track record of generating creative, practical solutions to operational problems.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional efforts.
• Strong data visualization skills and comfort developing CONOPS/OV-1 visuals and briefing packages.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Eligibility to obtain a Top Secret clearance.
• Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally.

Nice to have

• Active Top Secret clearance.
• Formal air defense or joint IAMD qualification.
• Experience in a theater or joint air and missile defense cell.
• Senior air defense experience at the branch, service, AAMDC, theater, or joint level.
• Established relationships across the US Army and joint IAMD communities.
• Experience with IAMD battle command, data link, and mission data integration or accreditation.
• Experience analyzing the full kill chain across multiple domains.
• Experience leading study teams or working groups across organizations.
• Experience supporting rapid development programs across DoD services, DARPA, ONR, AFRL, COCOMs, or commercial advanced technology programs.
• Experience supporting capture and positioning activities.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits 100% paid for by the company
• 401k (+ 50% company match up to 6% of pay)
• FSA
• HSA
• life insurance
• Free daily lunch while you're working onsite
• fully-stocked kitchen
• unlimited PTO
• casual dress code
• pre-IPO stock option grants
• relocation assistance
• annual bonuses (coming soon)

Before you apply

• Eligibility to obtain a Top Secret clearance.

About the company

CHAOS Industries is a defense company founded in 2022 that uses Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™) to power products for warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles.