Istari Digital
Deployment Strategist
$140K–$220K
Dayton, OH · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jul 21, 2026
About the job
Own customer program outcomes for defense and aerospace deployments, guiding engineering teams, customer relationships, milestones, and program growth.
What you'll do
- Define program success, priorities, and what milestones and demonstrations must prove.
- Embed with government and industry customers; serve as Program Manager on major federal programs and own contract commitments.
- Guide Forward Deployed Engineering teams, shape follow-on growth, and relay field feedback to product and engineering.
What they ask for
- Track record of owning outcomes without formal authority over the people delivering them.
- Insider fluency in air platform development and its acquisition, certification, sustainment, and digital engineering domain.
- Technical conversancy in areas such as modeling and simulation, MBSE, digital threads, software development, and/or agentic design.
- Product sense, customer communication range, and ability to operate with incomplete information and shifting requirements.
Nice to have
- Experience in a forward deployed, deployment strategist, or field delivery role at a technology or defense company.
- Prior key personnel Program Manager designation on a DoD or NASA contract, government program office experience, contracting familiarity, or a track record converting delivery into growth; eligibility to obtain and hold a U.S. security clearance is also highly desired.
Pay
USD 140,000–220,000 (per-year-salary)
Tools
MBSE
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