Growth (New Missions)

Amca • El Segundo, CA

2h • $130,000 - $200,000

About The Position

Amca’s Growth team is a small group of generalists who work on special projects to expand the business and help it scale. Working closely with the CEO, the team identifies ways to scale more effectively and pursue new opportunities—including new markets, product lines, operating principles, and customer engagements—and carries out the early work needed to test and realize those opportunities.

For the first 6–12 months, this role will focus on a “new missions” project: helping establish a new business within Amca. The work combines creative, first-principles research with commercial judgment and an entrepreneurial approach. The role sits on the Growth team, reports to the VP of Growth, and works closely with the CEO and executive leadership team to shape Amca’s growth beyond aerospace and defense (A&D).

The project is to identify an important problem Amca can solve in other rapidly changing critical industries, such as energy, semiconductor manufacturing, and robotics, then develop a mission-driven plan to address it. The plan will draw on top-down and bottom-up research and may include capital investment, initial customer engagements, operational details, and staffing needs. The position also supports other Growth team special projects as company priorities require.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. person within the meaning of ITAR: a U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident, or protected person under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).
• Ability to develop and believe in a mission, including considering opportunities beyond purely financial calculations.
• Strong first-principles thinking and ability to entertain and believe in non-consensus ideas.
• Ability to clearly justify non-consensus ideas in writing.
• Ability to identify sensible actions in an open-ended exploration process.

Responsibilities

• Research non-A&D constraints through public company filings and conversations with customers, suppliers, and competitors to identify major opportunities for engineering to solve significant problems.
• Develop well-founded theses for turning research into action, using acquisitions or partnerships where necessary and focusing on solving real problems.
• Shape and position creative customer solutions based on first principles rather than relying solely on Amca’s existing A&D model.
• Generate concrete, revenue-generating pilot opportunities with customers to validate theses and inform resource allocation to new markets.
• Help establish new teams to pursue opportunities at scale.
• Support other Growth team special projects as company priorities require.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed