Operations Integration Lead

Expedition Technology•Herndon, VA

About The Position

Expedition Technology (EXP) is seeking an Operational Integration Lead to bridge mission operators and technology developers. The role works directly with military users, mission planners, and government stakeholders, while partnering with EXP engineers, program teams, Mission Leads, Operations Leads, and Business Development. It is suited to someone with firsthand experience supporting military mission planning, targeting, command and control, operational planning, joint operations, expeditionary operations, or similar mission-focused environments. Experience with Marine Corps organizations is particularly valuable, while experience in joint planning environments or other military services may also be applicable. The lead helps EXP capabilities fit into operational planning processes, workflows, training, and decision-making. They support transition into operational environments and sustained mission use, help users integrate technology into existing workflows, gather feedback, evaluate performance, and recommend improvements. The role also supports customer engagement, training, requirements development, capability prioritization, and future capability and business-development efforts. Regular travel to customer locations and operational events is expected.

Requirements

Active TS/SCI clearance.
Experience supporting military operations, mission planning, targeting, command and control, intelligence support, joint operations, expeditionary operations, or related mission functions.
Experience working directly with operational users and mission stakeholders.
Strong understanding of how military organizations develop plans, make decisions, and employ capabilities.
Ability to communicate effectively with technical and operational audiences.
Experience building trusted customer relationships.
Strong communication, facilitation, and relationship-management skills.
Willingness to travel regularly to customer locations and operational events.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with Marine Corps organizations; experience across joint, service, or combined military environments is also relevant.
Experience participating in exercises, operational evaluations, demonstrations, or field deployments.
Experience training users or supporting operational adoption of new capabilities.
Familiarity with AI/ML-enabled systems, computer vision, sensor processing, mission-planning tools, autonomy, or advanced analytics.
Experience contributing to requirements generation, concept development, operational assessments, or acquisition activities.
Bachelor's degree in a technical, military, scientific, or related discipline.

Responsibilities

Build trusted relationships with operators, mission planners, and mission-support personnel.
Understand military mission-planning processes, course-of-action development, risk assessment, and operational decision-making.
Translate operational challenges and user needs into actionable feedback for EXP teams.
Help engineers and program teams understand mission workflows, decision cycles, training requirements, and operational constraints.
Keep operator perspectives visible throughout the development lifecycle.
Support transition of EXP capabilities into operational environments and sustained mission use.
Help users integrate new technologies into existing planning and execution workflows.
Identify adoption barriers and work with customers and program teams to address them.
Gather operational feedback, help shape future capability development, evaluate capability performance in operational environments, and recommend improvements.
Participate in customer meetings, demonstrations, exercises, operational evaluations, and field events.
Assist with training, onboarding, and customer-support activities.
Build customer confidence and trust in EXP capabilities and serve as an interface between operational users and program teams.
Support customer success efforts that contribute to long-term mission impact and continued program growth.
Identify emerging mission needs and operational challenges.
Support requirements development and capability prioritization.
Contribute operational insight to roadmap discussions, proposals, capture efforts, and business-development activities.
Help Mission Leads and program teams understand customer missions, operational concepts, and technology trends.
Ensure operational lessons learned influence future capability development.