Operations Integration Lead at Expedition Technology (Herndon, VA)
Expedition Technology· Herndon, VA· $200k–$265k·
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Why This Role Matters
At Expedition Technology (EXP), we build technology that is meant to be used.
Our customers operate in complex mission environments where success depends on more than technical performance. New capabilities must fit into planning processes, operational workflows, training pipelines, and real-world decision-making. The most successful technologies are not just delivered to customers, they become trusted tools that operators use every day.
We are looking for someone who understands that world firsthand.
As an Operational Integration Lead, you will help bridge the gap between mission operators and technology developers. You will work directly with military users, mission planners, and government stakeholders while partnering closely with Expedition's engineers, program teams, Mission Leads, Operations Leads, and Business Development team.
This role is especially well suited to someone with experience supporting military mission planning, targeting, command and control, operational planning, joint operations, expeditionary operations, or similar mission-focused environments.
Experience working with Marine Corps organizations is particularly valuable, though experience supporting joint planning environments or other military services may also be applicable
What You'll Do
Connect Operators and Technologists
- Build trusted relationships with operators, mission planners, and mission-support personnel.
- Understand how military organizations mission plan, develop courses of action, assess risk, and support operational decision-making.
- Translate operational challenges and user needs into actionable feedback for EXP teams.
- Help engineers and program teams better understand mission workflows, decision cycles, training requirements, and operational constraints.
- Ensure operator perspectives remain visible throughout the development lifecycle.
Drive Operational Adoption
- Support the transition of EXP capabilities into operational environments and sustained mission use.
- Help users integrate new technologies into existing planning and execution workflows.
- Identify barriers to adoption and work with customers and program teams to address them.
- Gather operational feedback and help shape future capability development.
- Evaluate how capabilities perform in operational environments and recommend improvements.
Support Customer Engagement and Mission Success
- Participate in customer meetings, demonstrations, exercises, operational evaluations, and field events.
- Assist with training, onboarding, and customer support activities.
- Help build confidence and trust in EXP capabilities across operational organizations.
- Serve as a trusted interface between operational users and program teams.
- Support customer success efforts that contribute to long-term mission impact and continued program growth.
Shape Requirements and Future Capabilities
- Help identify emerging mission needs and operational challenges.
- Support requirements development and capability prioritization efforts.
- Contribute operational insight to roadmap discussions, proposals, captures, and business-development activities.
- Help Mission Leads and program teams understand where customer missions, operational concepts, and technology trends are heading.
- Ensure operational lessons learned influence future capability development.
What We're Looking For
Required
- 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 both 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.
Preferred
- Experience working with Marine Corps organizations is particularly valuable; however, experience across joint, service, or combined military environments is also highly 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.
Why work at Expedition Technology
- Unique Management Structure: Replaces traditional “bosses” with “coaches” who advocate for career progression and connect employees to learning opportunities. Employees choose their own coach annually.
- Exceptional Benefits & Flexibility:
- Individual Benefit Account (IBA): Employees receive a pool of funds to allocate as they wish across healthcare, PTO, and a bonus. Unused IBA dollars are paid out at year-end.
- Flexible Cash PTO: Can take up to 45 days of PTO per calendar year and can cash out unused time.
- Retirement: Up to 12% contribution to a 401(k) (employer match/profit sharing) plus student loan repayment plans.
- Parental Leave: 12 weeks paid for primary caregivers; 2 weeks for secondary.
- Learning Culture: Autonomy to guide careers with support from coaches. Benefits include tuition assistance, conference attendance, and internal “brown bag” discussions.
- Mission-Driven Work: The opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology that directly impacts national security.
- Work Policy: Likely on-site or hybrid, given the classified nature of much of the work (Herndon, VA location).
- Commitment to Accessibility: Explicit accommodations policy for candidates with disabilities.