# Director, Enterprise Strategy and Operations (R5626)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: United States
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD 190,000-290,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is seeking a Strategy & Operations Director to help define enterprise strategy and ensure its operational execution. This role offers immersive exposure to the company’s most critical decisions , spanning aircraft systems, AI software (Hivemind), autonomy hardware, and international growth.

As a core member of the Strategy & Operations team, you’ll apply structured problem-solving, financial rigor, and operational discipline to turn strategic priorities into actionable, measurable outcomes. The role combines high-performance expectations with a strong learning and development environment , ideal for professionals seeking to grow into future strategy, operations, or general management leaders.

## Responsibilities:

- Lead 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.

- 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.

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

- 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 top-tier strategy consulting, corporate strategy or other high-rigor roles.

- Strong analytical and conceptual problem-solving abilities.

- 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).

## 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 but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location.

## Skills

### Required
- strategic planning
- financial modeling
- analytical skills
- problem-solving
- operational discipline

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

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