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Director, Ops Analysis (R5036)

Shield AI· Hivemind Solutions Division – Strategic Product Development
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Washington, D.C.$210k - $320kFull Time EmployeePosted 4d ago

About the role

Director, Operations Analysis leading a team that translates operational problems into quantitative insights to shape product strategy, engineering priorities, customer engagement, and mission outcomes within Shield AI’s Hivemind Solutions organization.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage the Hivemind Solutions Operations Analysis team, including hiring, mentoring, prioritization, performance management, and technical direction.
  • Build an operations analysis capability that directly informs Hivemind product strategy, autonomy roadmap decisions, customer pursuits, and program execution.
  • Define and execute mission analysis, campaign analysis, force-on-force studies, CONOPS evaluations, and operational trade studies across multiple Hivemind product domains.
  • Partner with Product, Architecture, Systems Engineering, Business Development, Strategy, and Program teams to translate operational problems into analytical studies and actionable product recommendations.
  • Develop analysis plans that connect mission objectives, operational assumptions, threat environments, system performance, autonomy behaviors, and measurable mission outcomes.
  • Guide the use of tools such as AFSIM, NGTS, STK, MATLAB, Python, custom simulations, and other modeling environments to evaluate mission effectiveness and operational value.
  • Establish standards for analytical rigor, model credibility, assumption tracking, sensitivity analysis, uncertainty characterization, and communication of results.
  • Create clear, executive-ready briefings that explain what was analyzed, what assumptions were made, what the results mean, and what decisions should follow.
  • Support customer engagements by developing compelling, technically grounded analysis that demonstrates the operational value of Hivemind-enabled systems.
  • Work with engineering teams to identify the autonomy behaviors, system capabilities, interfaces, performance parameters, and test data needed to improve model fidelity.
  • Help shape product requirements by connecting operational outcomes to measurable system and autonomy performance needs.
  • Build reusable analysis frameworks, scenarios, vignettes, and metrics that can scale across programs and domains.
  • Represent the Operations Analysis function in internal technical reviews, roadmap discussions, capture strategy sessions, and customer-facing meetings.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, operations research, applied mathematics, computer science, physics, aerospace, systems engineering, data science, or a related technical field.
  • 10+ years of relevant experience in operations analysis, mission analysis, modeling and simulation, systems analysis, military analysis, campaign analysis, or related technical domains.
  • 5+ years of experience leading teams, projects, or technical analysis efforts.
  • Experience using modeling and simulation to inform real product, system, program, or operational decisions.
  • Strong understanding of military operations, mission planning, force employment, kill chains, sensing, communications, autonomy, aircraft systems, weapons systems, or related defense concepts.
  • Ability to translate ambiguous operational questions into structured analysis plans, quantitative methods, and decision-quality outputs.
  • Experience working with engineering, product, business development, strategy, or customer-facing teams.
  • Strong technical communication skills, including the ability to brief senior leaders and customers with clarity, confidence, and analytical discipline.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where priorities evolve quickly and analysis must support real business and technical decisions.
  • U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

Skills

Required:Operations analysis leadershipMission analysisModeling and simulationTechnical communication

Benefits

  • Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
  • Temporary employee offer package: pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)
  • Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including skill set, experience, licenses and certifications, and location; offers contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits.
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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