Mission Development Lead

Posted 6 Days Ago
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Washington, DC
Senior level
Aerospace • Manufacturing
The Role
As a Mission Development Lead at Swarm Aero, you'll engage directly with customers to understand their needs, collaborate with engineering teams, and drive the development of innovative solutions. Your role will involve managing complex projects, identifying opportunities, and providing structured communications and insights. You'll take ownership of your portfolio, facilitate scaling of efforts, and prioritize rapid learning and technical curiosity to align product development with customer missions.
Summary Generated by Built In

Swarm Aero is redefining air power, building the largest swarming UAV and most versatile swarming aircraft network in the world. The company is moving quickly to launch the first aircraft designed specifically for swarming as well as the Command & Control software to mobilize swarms of thousands of heterogenous autonomous assets and empower human operators to achieve superhuman results. 

The team has created and exited multiple startups, negotiated defense deals worth billions of dollars and designed and built 30+ novel aircraft, with aerospace experience from Scaled Composites, SpaceX, Airbus, Archer Aviation, Blue Origin, and Boom Supersonic. 


As a Mission Development Lead, you will work directly with customers to understand their needs, represent their circumstances internally as you interface closely with engineering teams, and shape and capture opportunities. 

 

WHAT YOU’LL DO: 

  • Radical responsibility and ownership: You will be asked to own your portfolio from day one. Rapid learning, iteration, and tenacity are key as you lead and shape the ideas and actions that get things done.  
  • Customer obsession: You will work closely with clients to grok their challenges and missions from first principles. You will translate that back to your colleagues. 
  • Technical curiosity: You will be directly involved in product as you work closely with Swarm Aero engineers to build relevant products for your client’s operational needs. You will be proactively, constantly learning about customer needs and what technology can bring for them. 
  • Seek and find: You will identify, evaluate and pursue opportunities and contribute ideas to others on your team.  
  • Structure: You will provide organization and insight to complex pools of information to enable clear transfer of perspectives. You will use this to generate highly effective communications in artifacts like white papers, proposals, presentations, and analysis for internal and external audiences. 
  • Organize and scale: To organize is to create. As the company and your portfolio grows, so will your involvement in leading mission execution and bringing organization to many parallel threads. You will manage complex accounts and relationships efficiently and precisely. 

 

WHAT YOU’VE DONE: 

  • Moved with urgency to make big things happen 
  • Experience with complex hardware and software systems 
  • Experience managing complex technical projects 
  • Experience in business development, productization, and contracting 

 

WHAT SETS YOU APART: 

  • Mission alignment 
  • Strong writing and research skills  
  • Comfortable with setting and achieving goals in an amorphous environment  
  • An enthusiasm for and broad knowledge of technology development 
  • Humility 
  • Ability to travel 25 – 75% required 
  • Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. Top Secret security clearance 

 

Swarm Aero is an equal-opportunity employer, and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. If you are someone passionate to work on problems that matter, we’d love to hear from you.  

As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and trustworthy work environment, Swarm Aero conducts a thorough screening of prospective employees. Candidates will be subject to a comprehensive background verification process as a prerequisite for employment.

To conform to U.S. Government controlled technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

The Company
28 Employees
Remote Workplace

What We Do

Building the largest UAV swarm on the planet

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