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Deployment Strategist (TS/SCI Clearance Required)

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Location
Arlington, VA
Posted
1 month ago
Department
Defense Tech
Salary
$140,000 to $220,000
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • 4+ years as an analyst, operator, or targeteer in the relevant mission space, with direct experience doing the work.
  • Demonstrated ability to become a power user of complex analytic tooling and to teach it to experienced users.
  • Working Python proficiency, including scripting and data wrangling, and comfort reading and modifying code.
  • Practical understanding of AI agent concepts, including prompting, workflow and evaluation design, and where agents fail, or a clear track record of picking up new technical tooling fast.
  • Strong interviewing and listening skills, with experience eliciting process knowledge from subject matter experts.
  • Clear written communication.
Nice to have
  • Experience writing SOPs, tradecraft standards, or training curricula.
  • Hands-on experience with AI assisted or agentic analytic tooling.
  • Strong Python.
  • An active professional network in the relevant analytic community.
  • Experience supporting a J2 or joint or component intelligence staff, including JIPOE and the targeting cycle (Joint Targeting Cycle and F2T2EA).
What the job really is

As a Deployment Strategist, you will work closely with field teams to ensure the successful deployment of AI solutions in classified environments. Your responsibilities include mapping analyst workflows, capturing institutional knowledge, configuring AI agents, and providing hands-on training to ensure platform adoption. This role requires you to work on-site in Arlington, VA, and involves significant interaction with analysts and engineers to enhance the platform's effectiveness.

Benefits
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance. 99% of your premiums covered, and 100% of your dependents' premiums.
  • Optional HSA plan. Lower premium, HSA eligible, fully portable, self directed or managed.
  • Health Reimbursement Account for qualified healthcare expenses.
  • Life insurance of $150,000 plus AD&D, 100% company paid.
  • 401(k) with a 100% match on the first 6%, immediately vested. No cliff, no waiting period. Yours from day one.
  • Wellhub Gold. Everything from Gold's Gym to Lifetime, fully covered, plus [solidcore], F45, and hundreds of other studios.
Things to weigh
  • Role requires 80 to 100% on-site work in Arlington, VA, which may limit flexibility.
  • The position is highly technical and requires deep domain expertise, which may be challenging for candidates without direct experience in the mission space.
  • Travel is required, which could impact work-life balance.
  • The role is focused on individual contribution rather than management or project oversight, which may not suit all candidates.
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