Corporate Strategist - Remote

Mission Strategist - San Diego (Clearance Required)

We have 125 deployments across every branch and combatant command spanning our core platform and five distinct products. An an example of how we work, when major combat operations started with Iran, we fielded a new product supporting 24/7 operations and 9,000+ users in three months.
Our engineers, product team, and CTO deploy forward to the point of friction, including visiting units in Ukraine. We focus on embedding directly with operational units supporting great power competition with China, combat operations with Iran, and counter-narcotics missions.
We're hiring a forward-deployed Mission Strategist to embed with Navy users in San Diego. San Diego is home to the Navy's rapid capability organizations, and our software is already in use there. You will spend most of your week on site with users and working on government networks.
Much of that is configuration: building agent workflows, prompts, databases, reports, and alerts on our classified platform, then iterating with users until they hold up in real operations. Some of it is net-new capability that you will scope with our engineers and deliver alongside them.
That means running discovery with operators, building the sprint plan with engineering, configuring and testing on the high side, demoing to program leadership, and shaping what the follow-on should be. This is not a traditional customer success, solutions, or product role. Configurations can take hours and many iterations to get right, and problems are often unclear and changing. You will partner closely with our Mission Leads, who own customer relationships and the path to programs of record, and with the engineers building the platform. You will have support from product, engineering, and leadership, but you will decide where to focus and how to maximize mission impact.
Persons status with at least a current Secret US DoD or IC clearance is required. This is a customer-facing role required to be based in San Diego. Work will require time in secure or classified environments and periodic travel.
Embed with users on watch floors, at schoolhouses, and during fleet exercises. Write and tune the prompts, agent workflows, databases, reports, and dashboards that turn a mission problem into a working tool, then validate them against real tasks with real users.
Test and troubleshoot releases on classified networks, and give engineering specific, reproducible feedback.
Run funded prototypes from discovery through final demo, including sprint planning, tracking government dependencies, and reporting status to customers and leadership.
An active Secret clearance at minimum. Based in San Diego or willing to relocate. Experience using technology to solve hard operational problems, either from building products (product management, engineering) or from fielding new technology in the military.
Comfort with hands‑on technical work. You will rewrite a prompt ten times, dig into why a configuration isn't behaving, and keep going until it works.
Clear writing. You can turn a messy week on site into a short update that engineers and leadership can act on.
Navy experience, especially in ISR, targeting, maritime operations, or unmanned systems.
Time on a watch floor or in an operations center.
Experience building with LLM-based tools, or light scripting.
Health, dental, and vision insurance

• Remote friendly with WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel

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