Mission Execution Lead UK

Chaos Industries; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical

Dental and vision

Pension match

Relocation assistance

Stock option grants

Annual bonuses

Job summary

CHAOS Industries is seeking a field-oriented role to drive business across the UK, Europe and the Middle East. Based in the UK, you will lead critical customer engagements from pre-sales outreach to post-contract implementation, delivering flawless execution with a hands-on hardware focus.

The ideal candidate has excellent communication, program management experience, and a willingness to travel up to 50% to customer sites and offices in LA & Washington DC as needed.

Qualifications

• Problem-solving mentality with ability to lead multi-stakeholder programs.
• Proven experience in developing requirements, scoping programs, and delivering to defense customers.
• Hands-on with hardware in field deployments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with stakeholders at all levels, from day-to-day to generals.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% across Europe, Middle East, and US offices.
• UK security clearance or eligibility to obtain it.

Responsibilities

• Understand and translate the customer needs for international militaries in their environment.
• Execute, coordinate, plan, conduct site surveys, train customers, and run demonstrations and exercises.
• Know CHAOS products, capabilities, and resources as they relate to mission requirements and user needs.
• Be where the customer needs us—MOD halls or in the field—and build trust across organizational levels.

Skills

Problem solving mentality

Program/Project Management

Hands-on hardware

Excellent communication

Risk tolerance

Travel flexibility

UK security clearance readiness

Job description

CHAOS Industries is redefining modern defense with a multi-product portfolio that gives the ultimate advantage—domain dominance. The company's products are powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™), empowering warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams to act faster, adapt rapidly, and stay ahead of evolving threats.

CHAOS Industries was founded in 2022 and has raised a total of $1 billion in funding from leading investors, including 8VC, Accel, and Valor Equity Partners. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, and London. For more information, please visit www.chaosinc.com.

Role Overview

This role will drive business across the UK, Europe and the Middle East by aligning CHAOS’ technical capabilities to military and commercial operational requirements. Based out of the UK, you will be leading critical customer engagements – from the initial pre-sales outreach, to post-contract implementation – and at every step getting as close to the customer as you can, as frequently as possible. The ideal candidate demonstrates exceptional planning and coordination skills, an aptitude for flawless execution and an eagerness to apply them to the tactical deployment of CHAOS systems. You are equally comfortable in a jacket and tie as when operating from a tactical vehicle. Rest assured; no two days will be the same. Be hungry – hunt for problems and be the first to find solutions. This role requires strong initiative: be where the customer is to build trust, learn, drive, and deliver outcomes and flawless execution.

Responsibilities

• Understand and translate the customer needs. International militaries are demanding customers each with their own language. This role requires initiative to find opportunities, then build trust with the customer, in their environment, and translate needs back to CHAOS. You will be the customer’s ambassador to the rest of CHAOS, and CHAOS’ representative towards the customer.
• Execute, execute, execute. This role is focused on executing for the customer. Coordination, planning, site surveys, customer training and successful demonstrations and exercises.
• Know our product – know the mission. This role will lead on CHAOS’ front line. Success requires a thorough understanding of our technology, capabilities, and resources squared with the mission and user requirements. Success in this role with make CHAOS the customer’s most trusted tactical partner.
• Get out of the office. Be where the customer needs us, either in the MOD halls or in the field. Learn and build trust through engagements at all levels – tactical to strategic.

Minimum Requirements

• Problem solving mentality. Fight for information, build a team, be creative, a thought leader and relish the opportunity to take on a difficult problem.
• Program/Project Management: Proven experience in developing requirements, scoping programs, and delivering to customers in the defense industry.
• Enjoy getting your hands dirty – literally: CHAOS is an engineering-first company with a hardware component. This role will involve getting hands-on with hardware in the field with customers.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both written and verbal. You will be communicating with customer stakeholders at every level, from day-to-day counterparts to generals; and you will need to contextualise, collate and deliver their feedback back to CHAOS engineering, product management and senior leadership.
• Risk tolerance: We intend to go with our customers to where they need us most to deliver.
• Travel: Ability and interest to travel (50%, with flexibility for higher travel periods) to customer sites across Europe and the Middle East, and to our offices in LA & Washington DC.
• UK Security Clearance: Existing UK security clearance, or eligibility to obtain it.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience: Radar, RF, Sensor, Weapons Systems, Defence Technology or Communications experience.
• Background of working with militaries: Extensive experience working with European militaries or a military Engineering or Special Forces technology background.
• Travel experience: Comfortable with organizing and navigating overseas engagements, operating in remote areas and able to plan for and mitigate risk to reputation, mission and personnel.

Why CHAOS?

• Health Benefits: private medical, dental and vision benefits (for employees & dependents) will be 100% paid for by the company
• Additional benefits: 5% pension match
• Compensation Components: competitive base salaries, generous pre-IPO stock option grants, relocation assistance + (coming soon!) annual bonuses
• Team Growth: 350 employees and counting across 5 global offices

Salary Range:

The stated compensation range reflects only the targeted base compensation range and excludes additional earnings such as bonus, equity, and benefits. If your compensation requirements fall outside of the range, we still encourage you to apply. The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations.

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