Capability Strategist, Missiles

Job description

CHAOS Industries is redefining modern defense with a multi-product portfolio that gives the ultimate advantage—domain dominance. The company's products are powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™), empowering warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams to act faster, adapt rapidly, and stay ahead of evolving threats.

CHAOS Industries was founded in 2022 and has raised a total of $1 billion in funding from leading investors, including 8VC, Accel, and Valor Equity Partners. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, San Diego, and London. For more information, please visit www.chaosinc.com.

Role Overview:

As the Capability Strategist, Missiles at CHAOS, you will own the fires and targeting capability strategy across CHAOS's strike missile products and the broader set of fires mission areas the company supports. You will bring recent, real-world targeting and fires experience to the way CHAOS designs, tests, fields, and sells its weapons: you understand how a target actually gets developed, validated, weaponeered, and prosecuted, how the Army and the joint force train and employ their targeteers, and how requirements for long-range fires are shaped before they ever reach a program office.

The role is two-sided. For engineering, you will turn warfighter needs into requirements, trades, test objectives, and scenarios that guide product investment, and you will explain the operational rationale behind each. For business development and marketing, you will turn the same operational understanding into the context, win themes, demonstrations, and senior-leader messaging that let CHAOS speak credibly to fires and targeting customers. You will build and hold CHAOS's relationships across the US Army and joint fires and targeting enterprise, so that the company hears about operational problems before they become requirements, and you will have a formal voice in product roadmap and capture prioritization for the fires portfolio. The level of this role will be set to match the experience and scope the selected candidate brings. The role is comparable to a strategic mission engineer or senior operational subject matter expert at other defense companies.

This is a foundational hire. You will operate with limited guidance in a fast-moving environment, identify what the warfighter actually needs, and generate creative, practical solutions to operational problems that do not yet have a defined answer. You will have the freedom to move fast.

Responsibilities:

• Own the fires and targeting capability strategy. Define and maintain CHAOS's capability strategy for long-range strike, land-attack and anti-ship missiles, and related fires mission areas, including the target sets, employment concepts, and operational problems the products must solve, and keep it current as threats, doctrine, and customer priorities change.

• Translate warfighter needs for engineering. Turn the realities of the joint targeting cycle, weaponeering, collateral damage estimation, battle damage assessment, and fires employment into requirements, trades, and test objectives that engineering and product teams can design, build, and test against, and explain the operational rationale behind each.

• Contextualize the mission for business development and marketing. Articulate the "so what" of CHAOS's strike missile products for the warfighter and the theater plan, and shape win themes, proposal content, demonstration design, and senior-leader messaging so they reflect what matters to the people who will employ the weapon.

• Build and hold the fires and targeting relationships. Own CHAOS's relationships across the Fires Center of Excellence, the Field Artillery and targeting warrant officer community, the Multi-Domain Task Forces, theater and joint targeting organizations, the Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) and joint fires community, and the relevant program offices, test, and training organizations, and engage them to shape requirements and advantage CHAOS in future competitive programs.

• Shape the roadmap and capture priorities. Serve as a standing voice in product roadmap and capture prioritization decisions for the fires portfolio, bringing the operational case for what to pursue, what to demonstrate first, and what not to claim until it has been shown.

• Translate current and future concepts of operation—including US and allied force standard operating procedures (SOPs) and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) for long-range fires, multi-domain operations, and joint targeting—into mission engineering and operations analysis design.

• Identify unmet operational needs across the strike kill chain (find, fix, track, target, engage, assess) and generate creative, practical solutions, working with engineering and product teams to turn them into capability concepts, CONOPS, and study designs.

• Enable the translation of validated intelligence community p

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