Defense Operations Consultant - Armed *Prior Combat experience required*

ANANZIY DEFENSE LABS; Durban; Remote; ZAR 1,204,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense technology firm in Durban, South Africa is seeking a Senior Public Relation Manager. This role involves leading marketing teams, transforming operational scenarios, and ensuring mission-critical capabilities. Ideal candidates will have experience in armed security, effective problem-solving skills, and a strong educational background in relevant fields. The position offers a commission-based salary ranging from $0 to $150,000.

Qualifications

• Must have Licensed Firearm for Armed Security.
• Effective problem-solving and analytical skills required.
• Experience in threat analysis and crisis management.

Responsibilities

• Complete mission objectives, able to scale with company.
• Write policy, adapting it as necessary.
• Design policies, products, and custom platforms.

Skills

Customer Facing

Mission First

Project Management

Effective problem-solving

Education

Educational background in computer science, mathematics, physics, or engineering

Job description

Overview

To Empower & Protect

ANANZIY Defense Labs is a defense technology research and Development think tank with a mission to transform African and allied military capabilities with advanced technology at the local level. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century's most innovative companies to the defense industry, ANANZIY is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. ANANZIY's family of systems is powered by an advanced operating system, an Al-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a real-time, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Ananziy is committed to bringing cutting-edge cyber security, autonomy, Al, computer vision, sensor fusion, Biotech, networking technology, and advanced weaponry to the militaries in Sub-Saharan Africa within months, not years.

Ananziy Defense Labs is a Defense research lab within the AICO Management Group family. The lab specializes in offensive and defensive cyber security and 5D weapons development. Our seasoned team of experts, armed with an intricate blend of knowledge and experience, work tirelessly to pioneer solutions that transcend challenges and set new industry standards. To defeat threats and vulnerabilities that can disrupt progress and compromise safety.

The Sauce

The Defense Operations team builds strategy, researches material, instigates change, extends the reach of the organization, and scales ADL's influence to deliver mission-critical capabilities to our customers.

As the Senior Public Relation Manager you will lead technically, the team of marketing and sales persons closest to ADL's Mission. Defense Operators Manager and solves technical challenges of reporting operational scenarios while controlling the end-to-end delivery of winning capabilities such as Counter Intrusion, Joint All Domain Command and Control, and Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems. As a Hardware Engineer you will solve a wide variety of problems involving networking, autonomous systems integration, robotics, and more, while making pragmatic engineering tradeoffs along the way. Your efforts will ensure that ADL products seamlessly work together to achieve a variety of critical outcomes. Above all, Our People are driven by a "Whatever It Takes" mindset-executing in an expedient, scalable, and pragmatic way while keeping the mission top-of-mind and making sound engineering decisions to deliver successful outcomes correctly, on time, and with high quality.

What We Value

* Customer Facing - Ability to translate prototypes to client and stakeholders understanding the ADL customers, end-users, and the technical challenges of operational scenarios.

* Mission First - Above all, Our Operators execute their mission in an expedient, scalable, and pragmatic way. They keep the mission top-of-mind and make pragmatic and thoughtful engineering decisions to deliver successful outcomes.

* Small Project Wrangling = Large Project Impact - Our PRMs are the voice of our business line (s).

Responsibilities

• Utilize your expertise to complete mission objectives, able to scale with company.
• Expert in writing policy, able to adapt policy to fit laws for appropriate application.
• Participate in collaborative business meetings to update key stakeholders
• Continuous improvement of prototypes
• Design perfect PR products that are look finished
• Interact with clients and respond to important inquiries about the company's products or services within your scope
• Project Management/ Hardware Manufacturing Skills
• Own the PR solutions that are deployed to customers
• Design policies, products and custom platforms to improve products and scale the mission capability to more customers
• Collaborate across multiple teams to plan, build, and test complex functionality
• Create and analyze metrics that are leveraged for debugging and monitoring
• Triage issues, root cause failures, and coordinate next-steps
• Partner with end-users to turn needs into features while balancing user experience with engineering constraints
• Fully Remoted

Core Requirements

Experience in the following areas preferred:

• Armed Security - Must have Licensed Firearm
• Testing and product prototyping
• Threat Analysis
• Crisis Management
• Task management
• Effective problem-solving and analytical skills required
• Required to display strong initiative and drive to accomplish goals and meet project/company objectives.
• Required to focus on teamwork and puts the success of the team above one's own interests

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

• GRIT
• Urban Warfare experience
• Organizational skills, Problem-solving skills
• Curiosity and Privacy - confidentiality amongst all stakeholders
• Prior business ownership experience is a plus.
• Educational background in computer science, mathematics, physics, or engineering
• Experience in Fire-Fight (Preferred)
• "The Major Key"
• Come to us with a Bantu-collectivist mindset

Employment Details

• This role is 100% commission-based or Client contingent. Certain candidates may receive stock and patent credit depending on contribution and skill level
• Based on performance standards and goals and comes with scheduling flexibility, training, and autonomy.
• $000,000 - $150,000 a year for Full Time Contract Opportunities: The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors. Actual salary offer may vary based on work experience, education and training, critical skills, and business considerations.

AICO is an equal-opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. The AICO team is made up of incredibly talented and unique individuals, who together are disrupting industry norms by creating new paths towards the future of defense technology. All qualified applicants will be treated with respect and receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, uniform service, Veteran status, age, or any other protected characteristic per federal, state, or local law, including those with a criminal history, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws. We actively encourage members of recognized minorities, women, Veterans, and those with disabilities to apply, and we work to create a welcoming and supportive environment for all applicants throughout the interview process. If you are someone passionate about working on problems that have a real-world impact, we’d love to hear from you!

Industry

• Defense and Space Manufacturing