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Shield AI

Director, Ops Analysis (R5036)

Washington, DC · On-site · Senior

Discipline
Systems
Industry
Defense
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Hivemind Solutions Division

Director, Operations Analysis at Shield AI in Washington, DC leads a team applying modeling, simulation, and wargaming to inform product strategy and mission outcomes. The role requires technical credibility, analytical rigor, and ability to translate operational questions for executives, engineers, and government customers.

Required

  • modeling
  • simulation
  • wargaming
  • campaign analysis
  • mission-level trade studies
  • leadership
  • product-strategy

Preferred

  • customer-facing analysis
  • military operations
  • autonomy
  • Hivemind
  • defense-tech
  • quantitative insights

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Employer description

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube. 

Job Description:
Shield AI is building intelligent autonomy systems for the defense of service members and civilians. The Hivemind Solutions organization applies Shield AI’s autonomy stack to mission-critical systems across air, maritime, strike, weapons, space, and collaborative autonomy domains.
We are seeking a Director, Operations Analysis to lead a team responsible for turning operational problems into quantitative insights that shape product strategy, engineering priorities, customer engagement, and mission outcomes. This leader will manage and grow a high-performing Operations Analysis team that uses modeling, simulation, wargaming, campaign analysis, and mission-level trade studies to help determine what Hivemind should build, why it matters, and how it performs in realistic operational contexts.
This is a leadership role for someone who can operate at the intersection of autonomy, military operations, mission engineering, modeling and simulation, product strategy, and customer-facing analysis. The right candidate will be technically credible, analytically rigorous, comfortable with ambiguity, and able to translate complex operational questions into clear recommendations for executives, engineers, business development leaders, and government customers.

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