Federal Deployment Strategist — Program Lead

Capitol Careers LLC; Dayton (OH); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Capitol Careers is seeking a Deployment Strategist for a Federal Technology Firm in Dayton, OH. This permanent, full-time, hybrid role places you as the accountable owner of program outcomes, embedding with engineers and customers to drive measurable success.

You will balance technical judgment with product-like decision-making, brief program executives, and lead a small team to deliver valuable capabilities on government projects.

Qualifications

• A track record of owning an outcome with no formal authority over the people delivering it, and finding that energizing rather than alarming.
• Insider fluency in the following customer domain… the kind that comes from having lived it, along with a clear view of what is broken in how that world works today.
• Technical conversancy across modeling and simulation, MBSE, digital threads, software development, and/or agentic design: enough to interrogate an engineering claim and be credible doing it, not necessarily enough to build it yourself.
• Product sense, because this role sits closer to product management than to project management: knowing what to build next and what not to build at all, and telling the difference between a request that serves one user and a capability that belongs in the platform.
• The range to brief a program executive in the morning and pair with an engineer in the afternoon.
• An instinct for reading rooms and organizational dynamics, because adoption is won in the customer's org chart as much as in the software.
• Comfort operating with incomplete information and shifting requirements, and the initiative to define next steps without being told.

Responsibilities

• Own the outcome of a program end to end: define what success means, choose the problems worth solving and the order to solve them in, and set what each milestone has to prove.
• Embed with government and industry customers to understand their mission, their constraints, and their politics, and build relationships from end users to program executives that make a deployment durable.
• Serve as named Program Manager on major federal programs: carry the program narrative through status reports, technical interchange meetings, and formal review boards, and stand accountable for every contract commitment.
• Set direction and priorities for a small Forward Deployed Engineering team without intermediating between engineers and users, and protect their time from everything that is not the work.
• Own the growth thesis: option years, follow-ons, and expansions grow out of delivered outcomes, and they are your responsibility to shape from inside the relationship.
• Feed what you learn in the field back into product and engineering, so the platform gets better for every customer, not just the one in front of you.
• Work day-to-day at or travel to customer sites, test events, hackathons, and program milestones as needed, typically domestic.

Skills

Owns outcomes

Customer domain fluency

MBSE & digital threads

Product sense

Brief program executives

Organizational dynamics

Ambiguity handling

Job description

Capitol Careers is seeking a Deployment Strategist for a Federal Technology Firm in Dayton, OH. This permanent, full-time, hybrid role places you as the accountable owner of program outcomes, embedding with engineers and customers to drive measurable success.

You will balance technical judgment with product-like decision-making, brief program executives, and lead a small team to deliver valuable capabilities on government projects.