Outcome-Driven Deployment Strategist for Defense Programs

Socket.dev; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

We seek people who own results, who can read room dynamics, and who thrive with incomplete information. The role rewards initiative, fast learning, and the ability to shape a program’s next chapter with limited formal authority.

Qualifications

• We hire for judgment, curiosity, and a bias toward action more than for a specific degree or years of experience.
• That said, people who do well in this role tend to share a few things.
• Domain: allied military aircraft development and engineering data handling.
• Technical conversancy across modeling, simulation, MBSE and software concepts.
• Product sense to know what to build next and what not to build.

Responsibilities

• Own the outcome of a program end to end: define success, choose problems, set milestones.
• Embed with government and industry customers to understand their mission and politics.
• Set direction for a small Forward Deployed Engineering team and protect their time.
• Own the growth thesis: option years, follow-ons, and expansions.
• Feed field learnings back into product and engineering to improve the platform.
• Travel to customer sites, test events, and program milestones as needed; mostly domestic, some international.

Skills

Judgment

Curiosity

Action bias

Outcome ownership

MBSE

Digital threads

Program briefing

Cross-functional

Reading rooms

Tools

MBSE

Digital threads

Job description

We seek people who own results, who can read room dynamics, and who thrive with incomplete information. The role rewards initiative, fast learning, and the ability to shape a program’s next chapter with limited formal authority.