Air Force Mission Partnerships Lead

Sorian Aero; Las Vegas, Northern (NV, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Equity

Travel opportunities

Job summary

Sorian Aerospace is seeking an Air Force Mission Partnerships Lead to build direct relationships with aggressor pilots, instructors, and tactics leaders around the Nellis ecosystem. You will learn operator needs without institutional filtering and help move validated needs upward while avoiding procurement paperwork.

This role requires deep experience in the Nellis aggressor/Weapons School community, outstanding credibility, and a willingness to travel frequently.

Qualifications

• Operational experience in the Nellis aggressor, Weapons School, or related Air Force ecosystem.
• Current credibility within fighter, aggressor, tactics, or test communities.
• Ability to discuss mission needs with pilots, maintainers, engineers, and leadership.
• Evidence of building new relationships beyond existing networks.

Responsibilities

• Establish direct relationships with priority aggressor, training, tactics, and test organizations.
• Identify a named primary and secondary relationship within every priority unit.
• Conduct recurring conversations about mission needs, constraints, capability gaps, and emerging threats.
• Learn how each unit currently solves the problem, where the solution fails, and what operators actually require.
• Identify credible internal champions—not simply friendly contacts.
• Determine what evidence, flight demonstration, data, or operational scenario would make Sorian’s capability credible.
• Connect Sorian’s engineers and pilots directly with users when technical dialogue is valuable.
• Translate conversations into clear internal mission-needs records without distorting what the user said.
• Map the relationships between squadrons, the 57th ATG, USAF Weapons School, ACC, test organizations, requirements owners, and program stakeholders.
• Help champions carry validated operational needs upward while Sorian’s commercial team develops the acquisition pathway.

Skills

Operational experience

Relationship-building

Communication and briefing

Travel readiness

Job description

Sorian Aerospace is seeking an Air Force Mission Partnerships Lead to build direct relationships with aggressor pilots, instructors, and tactics leaders around the Nellis ecosystem. You will learn operator needs without institutional filtering and help move validated needs upward while avoiding procurement paperwork.

This role requires deep experience in the Nellis aggressor/Weapons School community, outstanding credibility, and a willingness to travel frequently.