Istari Digital

Deployment Strategist

El Segundo, CA

Sponsorship not specified$140k-$220kDetected 1 day ago

CybersecurityProject ManagementSystems Engineering

About the role

A Deployment Strategist at Istari is the single accountable owner of a customer program's outcome.
Some days that means a working session with a prime's chief engineer.
Other days it means briefing a program executive on why a digital thread changes their schedule risk, or reading the room after a review board and knowing exactly which conversation needs to happen next.

Own the outcome of a program end to end: define what success means, choose the problems worth solving and the order to solve them in, and set what each milestone has to prove.
Own the growth thesis: option years, follow-ons, and expansions grow out of delivered outcomes, and they are your responsibility to shape from inside the relationship.
Technical conversancy across modeling and simulation, MBSE, digital threads, software development, and/or agentic design: enough to interrogate an engineering claim and be credible doing it, not necessarily enough to build it yourself.
Product sense, because this role sits closer to product management than to project management: knowing what to build next and what not to build at all, and telling the difference between a request that serves one user and a capability that belongs in the platform.

We hire for judgment, curiosity, and a bias toward action more than for a specific degree or years of experience.

The range to brief a program executive in the morning and pair with an engineer in the afternoon.
An instinct for reading rooms and organizational dynamics, because adoption is won in the customer's org chart as much as in the software.
Comfort operating with incomplete information and shifting requirements, and the initiative to define next steps without being told.
Preferred, not required

getting the right model, to the right person, at the right classification, at the right time.
We are a small, senior team, and every hire changes what the company can do next.
Experience in a forward deployed, deployment strategist, or field delivery role at a technology or defense company.
A prior key personnel Program Manager designation on a DoD or NASA contract, or time inside a government program office, uniformed or civilian.
You do need enough technical range that engineers trust your judgment and customers trust your answers.
Embed with government and industry customers to understand their mission, their constraints, and their politics, and build relationships from end users to program executives that make a deployment durable.

security clearance, given the classified and controlled environments this role supports

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