Deployment Strategist

1 month, 1 week ago
Full-time
Senior
Project and Program Management
Istari

Istari

Istari Digital is at the forefront of revolutionizing industries with digital twins, simplifying and securing models and simulations for enhanced products and systems. Their innovative approach empowers various sectors from aerospace to agriculture, pa...

Aerospace & Defense
11-50
Founded 2022
$13M raised

Description

  • Own the outcome of a program end to end, including defining success, prioritizing problems, and setting milestone criteria.
  • Embed with government and industry customers to understand mission needs, constraints, and organizational dynamics.
  • Build durable relationships with end users, program teams, and executives to support deployment adoption.
  • Set direction and priorities for a small Forward Deployed Engineering team while preserving direct engineer-to-customer collaboration.
  • Shape expansion opportunities, including option years, follow-ons, and broader adoption, based on delivered outcomes.
  • Feed insights from customer engagements back into product and engineering to improve the platform.
  • Travel to customer sites, test events, hackathons, and program milestones as needed, including occasional international travel.

Requirements

  • Track record of owning outcomes without formal authority over the people delivering them.
  • Insider fluency in commercial space development at scale, including launch vehicles, engines, spacecraft, and certification-grade proof for government customers.
  • Technical conversancy across modeling and simulation, MBSE, digital threads, software development, and/or agentic design.
  • Product sense to distinguish between one-off requests and platform capabilities.
  • Ability to brief program executives and collaborate directly with engineers.
  • Strong ability to read rooms, organizational dynamics, and adoption pathways.
  • Comfort operating with incomplete information and shifting requirements.
  • Experience in a forward deployed, deployment strategist, or field delivery role at a technology or defense company (preferred).
  • Track record of converting delivery into growth, such as an option year, expansion, or pilot-to-program transition (preferred).
  • Eligibility to obtain and hold a U.S. security clearance (preferred).

Benefits

  • Work directly with company executives and engineers, with limited process overhead.
  • Opportunity to see work reach real programs and fielded systems quickly.
  • Room to shape a role that is still evolving.
  • Small-team environment with high ownership and meaningful impact.
  • Culture that values collaboration, early feedback, and strong professional standards.
  • Outcome-driven environment that avoids busywork and hierarchy for its own sake.
  • Focus on wellbeing and mutual support within the team.

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