CHAOS Industries · 8 hours ago
Mission Director - U.S. Military Service
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$180K/yr - $240K/yrCHAOS Industries is redefining modern defense with advanced sensing and detection solutions. The Mission Director will lead engagements within a specific U.S. military service, bridging operators, buyers, and decision-makers while aligning technical capabilities to service requirements.
AerospaceGovernmentMilitaryNational Security
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Understand and translate the customer needs. Each service within the Department of War is a demanding customer with wide-ranging requirements, broad doctrinal responsibilities, and an evolving development and acquisition system. This role requires a deep understanding of the specific service, operating concepts, and the acquisition and developments systems. You must possess the initiative to find opportunities, the reputation and experience to build customer trust, and the confidence, communication, and technical skills to translate needs back to CHAOS mission execution, growth, and engineering teams. You will be the service’s ambassador to the rest of CHAOS, and CHAOS’ representative to the service
Prioritize, execute and maximize exposure. This role is focused on prioritizing and executing for a specific military service. You will work closely with Growth and Mission Execution to ensure positive outcomes with service engagements
Know our product – know the mission. This role will lead on CHAOS’ front line. Success requires a thorough understanding of our technology, capabilities, and resources squared with the mission and user requirements. Success in this role will make CHAOS the customer’s most trusted tactical partner
Get out of the office. Be where the customer needs us; from the PAE centers and the Pentagon, to INDOPACOM, EUCOM, and across the United States, get out in the field. Learn and build trust through engagements at all levels – tactical to strategic
Qualification
Required
Problem solving mentality. Fight for information, build a team, be creative, relish the opportunity to take on a difficult problem
Program/Project Management: Proven experience in developing requirements, scoping programs, and delivering to customers in the defense industry
Enjoy the field, the engineering lab, and the conference room: CHAOS is an engineering-first company with a hardware component. This role will involve getting hands-on with hardware in the field with customers and mission executors, coordinating with engineering to drive capability development, working closely with growth to prioritize and focus, and engaging customers in discussions and briefings to understand requirements and sell capabilities. You must understand customer requirements and the technology to effectively communicate for both
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both written and verbal. You will be communicating with customer stakeholders at every level, from young soldiers to senior civilian and uniformed leadership; and you will need to contextualize, collate, and deliver their feedback to CHAOS engineering, product management, growth, and senior leadership
Risk tolerance: We go where our customers go
Travel: Ability and interest in travel (50%, with flexibility for surge) to customer sites around the globe and to our offices in LA
Security Clearance: Active Top Secret clearance with eligibility for SCI
Preferred
Experience: US military operating forces - air defense, command and control, fires/effects; acquisition and development system; Radar, RF, sensor, weapons systems, defense technology and/or communications experience
Background of working with militaries: Extensive experience working with the service of choice, including acquisition and development systems with a technology background
Travel experience: Comfortable organizing and navigating overseas engagements, operating in remote areas and able to plan for and mitigate risk to reputation, mission, and personnel
Benefits
Health Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision benefits 100% paid for by the company
401k (+ 50% company match up to 6% of pay)
FSA
HSA
Life insurance
Free daily lunch
‘No meeting Fridays’
Unlimited PTO
Casual dress code
Competitive base salaries
Generous pre-IPO stock option grants
Relocation assistance
Annual bonuses
Company
CHAOS Industries
CHAOS Industries is redefining modern defense with omniscient systems that give the ultimate advantage—domain dominance.
Founded in 2022
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1BKey Investors
Valor Equity PartnersAccel8VC
2025-11-13Series D· $510M
2025-04-30Series C· $275M
2024-11-13Series B· $145M
Leadership Team
Bo Marr
Co-founder, co-CEO, CTO of Chaos Industries
John Tenet
Founder & CEO
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