Head of Operations, Air Dominance & Strike
$220,000–$336,000 year
On-siteCosta Mesa, California, United States
Job Summary
Own all aspects of business line operations and infrastructure, ensuring business development, engineering, and production teams have necessary resources to execute. Serve as the business line General Manager's chief strategist to balance resource and execution risk against massive growth plans, regularly monitoring financials to guide profitability targets. Translate growth signals into demand across operational infrastructure including staffing, real estate, test ranges, classified infrastructure, and production while collaborating with cross-functional partners. Own the business line's governance structure from business reviews to annual planning and employee onboarding, developing information pathways as the organization scales. Collaborate with division leadership to evolve organizational structure and implement hiring, onboarding, and execution standards. Execute on special projects, evolve internal processes, spearhead the stand up of new functions, and lead M&A efforts as needed.
Required Qualifications
- Must be eligible to hold a US Top Secret clearance
- You've built flexible operational infrastructure at a high-growth company
- You have experience with hardware production scaling through fielding
- You have deep financial acumen including unit economics, manufacturing finance, and P&L management
- You're operationally rigorous with a bias toward discipline, efficiency, and management via metrics
- You have a proven ability to evolve organizations, coach senior leaders, and make hard talent calls
- You're have the ability to move between 30,000 ft and tactical, getting into the weeds when necessary
Desired Qualifications
- You're a systems thinker who loves solving complex, ambiguous, cross-functional problems in a people-centric way
- You're both high ownership and low ego, approaching everything with strong outcome orientation and high humility
- You have the ability to evolve organizations, coach senior leaders, and make hard talent calls
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