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# Deployment Strategist, Intel (TS/SCI with CI Polygraph Required) at Sitreps

- **Company:** Sitreps
- **Location:** Northern, VA
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sitrepsllc/jobs/4378584009

## Job description

Deployment Strategist, Intel (TS/SCI with CI Polygraph Required)

Early-stage defense AI company. Northern Virginia.

Location: Northern Virginia. On client site 80 to 100% of the time. Not eligible for remote or hybrid work. Role type: Full-time employee, individual contributor. Reports to: The lead for your engagement. Compensation: $140,000 to $220,000 base, depending on experience, plus equity. Travel: None routine. Clearance: U.S. citizenship and an active TS/SCI with CI polygraph.

## About the Client

We build the vendor neutral operating system for agentic AI in high consequence environments. In our first ten months we won four fully competed prime contracts across the U.S. Government, every one of them deploying into classified spaces. We are live on JWICS. We were selected from a field of 200+ companies for a defense innovation challenge and won it. We beat two established defense primes on the same program and earned the follow-on, now in execution.

## About the Role

Deployment Strategists are the mission experts on our field teams. Our agentic harness is deployed in classified environments across the Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense, and your job is to make it produce work that meets mission standards. You map how analysts and operators actually work, capture institutional knowledge that has never been written down, and encode it into the platform as agents, workflows, and skills. You are the person accountable for whether the platform gets adopted.

This is a technical role. You will not own connectors or infrastructure, but you will build in the platform every day, configuring agents, building workflows, and scripting in Python, and you are expected to develop genuine depth in how AI agents are designed, prompted, and evaluated.

This role requires genuine domain expertise in the customer's mission space, earned by having done the work. You report to the lead for your engagement and work alongside the Forward Deployed Engineers on the same team.

This role is on client site 80 to 100% of the time in Northern Virginia. It is not eligible for remote or hybrid work.

How the Role Is Structured

We publish the time allocation because this role is more technical than the title suggests:

- 50% building in the platform. Configuring agents, designing and evaluating workflows, and scripting in Python.
- 30% analyst engagement. Workflow mapping, elicitation interviews with experienced analysts, and hands-on training and coaching.
- 20% documentation and feedback. Reusable workflow documentation, and carrying analyst feedback on platform behavior back to product and engineering.

## Responsibilities

- Mapping current analyst workflows before platform configuration begins.
- Tribal knowledge capture. You interview experienced analysts and operators to surface SOPs, undocumented practice, and exception to policy patterns.
- Encoding that knowledge into the platform as agents, workflows, and skills, owning whether the output is mission correct and not only technically valid.
- Agent quality. You apply prompt and workflow design, evaluation, and failure analysis to make agent output reliable.
- The partnership with your Forward Deployed Engineers, who own the connectors, integrations, and infrastructure your workflows depend on.
- Adoption. You drive it through hands-on training and coaching, and it is this role's primary metric.
- Analyst feedback on platform behavior. You are the main point of contact for it.
- Reusable workflow documentation that shortens every deployment after yours.

What This Role Is Not

- A pure training role. Training is one output. The core function is capturing mission knowledge and encoding it.
- A project management or customer success role.
- A generalist consulting role. Domain credibility is the basis of the position.
- A connector or infrastructure engineering role. You build in the platform and script in Python. Forward Deployed Engineers own production integrations and infrastructure.
- A lead or management role. You are an individual contributor on a small team, reporting to the engagement lead.

## Requirements

Must-Haves

- 6+ years as an analyst, operator, or targeteer in the relevant mission space, with direct experience doing the work.
- Demonstrated ability to become a power user of complex analytic tooling and to teach it to experienced users.
- Working Python proficiency, including scripting and data wrangling, and comfort reading and modifying code.
- Practical understanding of AI agent concepts, including prompting, workflow and evaluation design, and where agents fail, or a clear track record of picking up new technical tooling fast.
- Strong interviewing and listening skills, with experience eliciting process knowledge from subject matter experts.
- Clear written communication.
- Willingness to work on client site 80 to 100% of the time in Northern Virginia. No routine travel.
- U.S. citizenship and an active TS/SCI clearance with CI polygraph.

Nice-to-Haves

- Experience writing SOPs, tradecraft standards, or training curricula.
- Hands-on experience with AI assisted or agentic analytic tooling.
- Strong Python.
- An active professional network in the relevant analytic community.
- Working knowledge of IC analytic tradecraft standards (ICD 203, 206, and 208), including expressing analytic confidence, characterizing source reliability, and applying structured analytic techniques.
- Experience across the intelligence cycle, from planning and direction through collection, processing and exploitation, analysis and production, and dissemination, including all source fusion and producing finished intelligence.
- Experience with IC all source tooling such as i2 Analyst's Notebook, MARS/MIDB, PROTON, ArcGIS Pro, and TIDE, and OSINT platforms such as Babel Street, Maltego, Dataminr, or Recorded Future.

## Compensation & Benefits

- Health, dental, and vision insurance. 99% of your premiums covered, and 100% of your dependents' premiums.
- Optional HSA plan. Lower premium, HSA eligible, fully portable, self directed or managed.
- Health Reimbursement Account for qualified healthcare expenses.
- Life insurance of $150,000 plus AD&D, 100% company paid.
- 401(k) with a 100% match on the first 6%, immediately vested. No cliff, no waiting period. Yours from day one.
- Wellhub Gold. Everything from Gold's Gym to Lifetime, fully covered, plus [solidcore], F45, and hundreds of other studios.
- Unlimited PTO. Real time off, not accrual based. Take what you need, no counting required.
- Every federal holiday, plus additional paid days off over the winter break.
- Supportive leave of absence program, including time off for military service, medical events, and parental leave.
- Breakfast, lunch, and endless snacks every day you are in the office.
- Pre-tax commuter benefits.
- Company phone plan. A new iPhone, fully company paid.

## Why This Role

CIA officers, MIT engineers, Special Operations combat veterans, and applied AI engineers from frontier labs including Anthropic and Google. You will make decisions that immediately affect national security. You will own part of a company early and when it matters.

## About Sitreps

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sitreps is a veteran-founded recruiting agency and defense technology company that connects elite military talent with high-impact roles and builds software-driven maritime intelligence platforms for the U.S. Department of Defense.
- **Entity Type**: Private (startup stage; no public funding rounds disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Arlington, Virginia, USA (multiple job postings list Arlington, VA as primary location; also offices in New York City and Litchfield, VA)
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Kyle Eberly, Wyatt Frasier, Max Cormier (co-founders)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industries**: Defense Technology, Professional Services (Veteran Recruiting & Staffing), Software & Analytics
- **Target Customers**: U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and federal civilian agencies (B2G); defense-focused enterprises and technology companies (B2B) seeking veteran talent
- **Mission/Purpose**: Leveraging a deep-rooted community of military veterans to help world-class businesses scale, while also transforming commercial fleets into persistent sensing assets for national security.

## Products & Services
- **Sitreps Talent (Recruiting Agency)**: A curated recruiting service that sources, vets, and places high-performing military professionals into roles at partner companies. Serves 10+ industries including defense tech, software, AI, fintech, and private equity. Places roles such as product managers, account executives, engagement managers, and sales directors.
- **Maritime Intelligence Platform (Defense Tech Software)**: A next-generation software platform that transforms global commercial fleets into persistent sensing assets for the United States. Used by Navy strategic programs; includes analytics, data integration (SQL/Python/R), and implementation services.
- **AI & Agentic Solutions (Emerging)**: Design, prototype, and deploy scalable AI and agentic workflows for defense acquisition challenges, embedding with clients to productionize models.

## Market Standing
- **Valuuation / Funding**: Not publicly disclosed. The company appears to be privately funded (no public rounds recorded). A Head of Sales job description references growing revenue from ~$2M to $5M+ (with a path to $30M), suggesting current annual revenue in the low single-digit millions.
- **Key Metrics**: 150+ veterans placed, 40+ partner companies, 95% retention rate, serving 10+ industries (source: [sitreps.com/about/clients](https://www.sitreps.com/about/clients))
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Not listed publicly. Partner companies are not named on the website, but the client portfolio includes defense tech, software, HVAC, real estate, AI, fintech, private equity.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Scaling sales team from ~$2M to $30M target
  - Active hiring for senior roles: VP of Engagement, Head of Intelligence, Chief Operating Officer, Forward Deployed Data Scientists
  - Expanding into AI/agentic solutions for defense acquisition
  - Multiple office locations and remote/hybrid work options

## Competitive Advantages
- **Authentic Veteran Community**: Sitreps began as a viral online community for veterans transitioning to business roles — now the “largest community of veterans in business in the USA,” providing unmatched access to, and credibility with, military talent.
- **Dual Capability**: Combines a staffing agency with in-house defense tech software development, allowing cross-pollination of talent insights and mission understanding.
- **High Retention**: 95% placement retention rate indicates strong matching and support processes.
- **Clearance and Domain Expertise**: Many roles require active security clearances and deep knowledge of naval strategic programs, DoD acquisition, and intelligence — creating a high barrier for competitors.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale Revenue**: Formalizing sales processes (CRM, commissions, segmentation) with a goal of growing from ~$2M to $5M+ in the near term and eventually $30M.
- **Productize Defense Tech**: Expand the maritime intelligence platform and AI/agentic solutions for broader DoD adoption.
- **Deepen Government Relationships**: Hiring Engagement Directors and Account Executives for each military branch (Air Force, Navy, Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps).
- **Build Internal Infrastructure**: Transitioning from QuickBooks to an audit-ready ERP, adding financial controls and federal contract audit compliance.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Work**: Directly support national security and veteran employment — two high-impact, purpose-rich areas.
- **Hybrid & Remote Flexibility**: Many roles offer remote options (U.S.-based); some positions require on-site presence in Arlington, VA, New York, or Litchfield, VA; a hybrid workspace is the norm.
- **Career Growth**: Early-stage company where leaders are expected to build functions from scratch and grow into C-level roles (e.g., Head of Sales → CRO path).
- **Diverse Roles**: Opportunities span professional services, engineering (forward deployed, data science), intelligence analysis, sales, and operations — appealing to both veterans and civilians.
- **Culture**: Described as “authentic, expertise-driven, and grounded in real connection” — not a typical corporate recruiter but a community-first organization.

## Sources
1. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/sitreps-llc) – Company overview, perks, culture, job listings
2. [job-boards.greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sitrepsllc) – Official careers page with all current openings
3. [sitreps.com/about/team](https://www.sitreps.com/about/team) – Founders and team profiles
4. [sitreps.com/about/clients](https://www.sitreps.com/about/clients) – Client metrics, industries served, roles filled
5. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/sitreps-llc/jobs) – Detailed job descriptions (Head of Sales, Implementation Engineer, etc.)

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