Operations Integration Lead

Expedition Technology • Herndon, VA

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About The Position

Expedition Technology (EXP) is seeking an Operations Integration Lead to bridge military mission operators and technology developers. The role works directly with military users, mission planners, and government stakeholders while partnering with engineers, program teams, Mission Leads, Operations Leads, and Business Development. The position focuses on integrating capabilities into operational planning and execution workflows, supporting customer adoption and mission success, and ensuring operational feedback informs capability development. It is suited to candidates with experience in military mission planning, targeting, command and control, operational planning, joint operations, expeditionary operations, or similar mission-focused environments. Marine Corps experience is particularly valuable, as is experience in joint planning or other military services.

The role also supports customer engagement through meetings, demonstrations, exercises, operational evaluations, and field events; assists with training, onboarding, and customer support; and contributes operational insight to requirements, capability roadmaps, proposals, captures, and business-development activities. Regular travel to customer locations and operational events is expected.

Expedition Technology designs and delivers solutions for the defense and intelligence communities, applying machine learning, artificial intelligence, and other advanced technologies to C4ISR challenges. The company is privately held, rapidly growing, and headquartered in Northern Virginia. EXP describes its culture as collaborative, supportive, and focused on individual growth and creative problem-solving.

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, course-of-action development, risk assessment, and operational decision-making processes.
• Translate operational challenges and user needs into actionable feedback for EXP teams.
• Help engineering 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 and address barriers to adoption with customers and program teams.
• Gather operational feedback, 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 program growth.
• Identify emerging mission needs and operational challenges.
• Support requirements development and capability prioritization.
• Contribute operational insight to roadmap discussions, proposals, captures, and business-development activities.
• Help Mission Leads and program teams understand evolving customer missions, operational concepts, and technology trends.
• Ensure operational lessons learned influence future capability development.
• Travel regularly to customer locations and operational events.

Benefits

• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 11 paid holidays and up to 34 days of PTO.
• 401(k) plan with up to a 12% company contribution, including a 3% safe harbor, 6% match, and up to 3% additional contribution as profit sharing.
• Option to reallocate a portion of 401(k) match funds to repay student loans.
• Paid parental leave: six weeks for the primary caregiver and two weeks for the secondary caregiver.
• Tuition reimbursement of up to $5,250 per year.
• Referral bonus program.
• Free tickets to sporting events, theater, concerts, and other entertainment.
• Onsite fitness center, treadmill and bike-desk workstations, and cafeteria with reduced-cost options.
• Collaborative, creative, and supportive work culture.

What This Job Offers

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