# Senior Lead, Strategy & Operations

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: San Diego, California / Dallas, Texas / Washington, DC
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $150,000 - $230,000 a year
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is seeking a Strategy & Operations Lead 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 early-career professionals seeking to grow into future strategy, operations, or general management leaders.

### 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.

- 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.

### Required qualifications:

- Min 12+ years of experience with Bachelors, 8+ with Masters, and 5+ with PhD

- Min 4+ years' experience in a 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).

$150,000 - $230,000 a year

## Skills

### Required
- financial modeling
- analytical capability
- problem-solving
- strategy consulting
- corporate strategy
- high-rigor roles
- complex industries
- regulated industries
- aerospace
- defense
- AI
- advanced manufacturing

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