Mission Partnerships Lead — Air Force

Sorian Aerospace is building autonomous supersonic aircraft for advanced training, test, and adversary-air missions. We are hiring an Air Force Mission Partnerships Lead to build direct, enduring relationships with the people who understand the mission firsthand: aggressor pilots, instructors, weapons officers, maintainers, exercise planners, test personnel, and tactics leaders. Your first campaign will center on the Nellis ecosystem, including the 64th, 65th, and 706th Aggressor Squadrons, the 57th Adversary Tactics Group, and the U.S. Air Force Weapons School. Your job is not to sell through procurement paperwork. Your job is to ensure Sorian knows the operators personally, understands their requirements without institutional filtering, and earns credible champions who will help move validated needs upward. Note: U.S. citizenship or permanent residency is required due to the nature of our work. 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 What success looks like For every priority organization, you can answer: Who do we know by name? What problem do they personally experience? What is inadequate about the current solution? Which performance characteristics actually matter? What would they need to see demonstrated? Who can advocate for the capability? What concrete action will happen next? Within six months, success means active primary and secondary relationships across the priority Nellis organizations, multiple recurring user relationships, accurate mission-needs records, credible internal champions, and a defined technical exchange, site visit, demonstration, exercise, or evaluation pathway. Requirements Meaningful operational experience in the Nellis aggressor, Weapons School, advanced training, test, or closely related Air Force ecosystem Strong current credibility within the fighter, aggressor, tactics, or test community Ability to discuss mission needs with pilots, maintainers, engineers, and leadership Evidence that you can build new relationships beyond your existing personal network Strong written discipline and sound judgment about the difference between operator enthusiasm and organizational action High trust, discretion, responsiveness, and willingness to travel Prior experience on a requirements, headquarters, test, or program staff is helpful but not required. Any post-government employment restrictions or account limitations must be disclosed and reviewed before work begins. Sorian is hiring for mission judgment and execution—not privileged access. Availability Nellis / Las Vegas, NV preferred. High-commitment fractional or full-time, with frequent travel to Long Beach. Compensation Range fractional compensation prorated according to expected commitment meaningful equity for the appropriate long-term candidate complete healthcare benefits for full-time employees and their dependents #J-18808-Ljbffr Sorian Aero