Capability Strategist, Missiles

The role

You will own the fires and targeting capability strategy across strike missile products and related mission areas. You will translate warfighter needs into engineering requirements and turn operational understanding into business development context. You will also build relationships across the US Army and joint fires and targeting enterprise.

What you will do

• Own the fires and targeting capability strategy.
• Translate warfighter needs for engineering.
• Contextualize the mission for business development and marketing.
• Build and hold the fires and targeting 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 strike kill chain and generate solutions.
• Enable the translation of validated intelligence community products into modeling parameters and scenario constructs.
• Lead blue force CONOP-informed scenario development for strike missions.
• 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 targeting and fires experience in a deployed or operational environment.
• Direct experience planning or employing long-range fires, precision strike, or anti-ship capabilities against a peer or near-peer adversary.
• 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 targeting qualification, such as the Joint Targeting School, Army Targeting Course, or service JTAC certification, or service as a Fire Support or Targeting Warrant Officer.
• Experience with the joint targeting cycle in a theater or joint task force targeting cell.
• Senior targeting or fires experience at the branch, service, theater, or joint level.
• Established relationships across the US Army and joint fires and targeting communities.
• 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 modern defense company with a multi-product portfolio powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™). Founded in 2022, the company is headquartered in Los Angeles.