# Senior Lead, Enterprise Strategy and Operations (R6097)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: San Diego, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full Time Employee
**Salary**: USD 160,000-250,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Defense

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## Description

Shape the strategy behind the next generation of defense technology at Shield AI, a venture-backed defense-tech company. In this role, you’ll tackle complex business challenges, guide high-impact investment decisions, and turn bold strategic priorities into action, partnering across the organization to drive growth, scale, and long-term impact.

## Responsibilities

### Enterprise Strategy Development

- Support the multi-year strategic planning and annual operating strategy cycles.

- Evaluate portfolio tradeoffs across platforms, software, hardware, and emerging growth vectors.

- Conduct market sizing, competitive analysis, and scenario modeling across U.S. and allied defense markets.

### Capital Allocation & Business Case Rigor

- Build financial models and analytic frameworks for investment decisions (new platforms, manufacturing, international expansion).

- Assess TAM, margin structure, capital intensity, payback, and risk-adjusted returns.

- Contribute to the development of enterprise-wide capital allocation frameworks and governance processes.

### Operationalization of Strategy

- Translate strategic priorities into cross-functional execution plans with defined KPIs and milestones.

- Lead the planning and execution of integration efforts for acquisitions, strategic investments, and other inorganic growth initiatives.

- Track and report on progress through structured operating cadences (monthly and quarterly performance reviews).

- Identify bottlenecks, analyze root causes, and recommend actionable solutions to sustain execution velocity.

## Requirements

- Minimum 12+ years of experience with Bachelor's, 8+ with Master's, and 5+ with PhD.

- Minimum 4+ years’ experience in a strategy consulting, corporate strategy or other high-rigor roles.

- Strong analytical and conceptual problem-solving abilities.

- Experience leading complex, cross-functional transformations in fast-paced, technology-driven environments.

- Demonstrated ability to structure ambiguous problems and drive insight through analysis.

- Financial modeling and analytical capability (unit economics, forecasting, scenario analysis).

- Experience or strong interest in complex, technical, or regulated industries (aerospace, defense, AI, or advanced manufacturing preferred).

- Ability to work collaboratively across teams and influence senior stakeholders.

- U.S. citizenship required (ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance).

## Additional Information

- Salary: USD 160,000-250,000 per-year-salary

- Full-time regular employee offer package: 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)

## Skills

### Required
- strategic planning
- financial modeling
- analytical skills
- problem-solving
- leadership

### Nice to have
- aerospace
- defense
- AI
- advanced manufacturing

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