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• Interpret the CEO's vision, strategy, and verbal intent, translating them into structured execution paths and moving parallel initiatives to absolute closure.
• Attend high-stakes external engagements alongside or on behalf of the CEO—including investor meetings, technical evaluations, partner discussions, and defense industry events.
• Act as a disciplined observer in the room, analyzing counterparty dynamics, identifying hidden risks or intentions, and debriefing with the CEO to preserve their bandwidth for core decision-making.
• Maintain a mission-first mindset, prioritizing the company's objectives above all else. Exercise the judgment and maturity required to speak freely, fully, and candidly to the CEO.
• Hold and protect the operational rhythm of the company. Manage inbound communications, govern access to the CEO, route priorities effectively, and systematically eliminate distractions.
• Prepare deep contextual briefs prior to strategic meetings. Capture complex discussions, draft high-quality meeting notes, document relationship updates, and aggressively track the status of critical strategic partners and stakeholders.
• Manage the creation and flow of correspondence, documentation, and sensitive defense/tech materials, seamlessly routing legal and compliance documents through counsel prior to release.
• As the company transitions into Series A and scales rapidly, help lead the build-out of the operational backbone.
• Help institutionalize structure across teams and support recruiting efforts to bring top-tier, highly disciplined talent into the expanding infrastructure.

Must-Have Skills, Experience, and Education:

• 6-10 years of experience in high-stakes environments that demand rapid synthesis and operational execution.
• Familiarity with/strong aptitude for grasping advanced technology, enterprise software, AI systems, or federal/defense contracting ecosystems.
• Highly organized with a proven track record of managing parallel project lifecycles to completion.
• Impeccable judgement and operational discretion in secure, confidential environments.
• Operational maturity and gravitas - the poise, self-directed judgment, and presence required to operate smoothly alongside executive authority, senior government officials, and institutional investors.
• High bandwidth and ambiguity tolerance - comfortable processing vast amounts of highly technical or fast-moving information. The flexibility and confidence to thrive in a Series A Startup ecosystem where clear structures must be engineered out of ambiguity.
• Disciplined under pressure - function with exceptional clarity in high-pressure situations and take action.
• Able to work near authority without becoming familiar, deferential, inflated, or performative.
• Mission-driven - prioritize objectives above all, and exercise judgement and discretion to speak freely and fully with the CEO.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to handle sensitive national security adjacent data; willingness to undergo background checks or clearance processing if required.
  

Why this opportunity?

The CEO is looking for a highly disciplined, mission-oriented, transitioning Military Officer to serve as a force multiplier to help him orchestrate the company's operations.

This is an exciting, challenging and rewarding role that will directly and positively impact U.S. Military operations. With his 17 years serving in the Government Accountability Office advising the DoD and his vast experience in defense modernization, force-structure development, cyber readiness and organizational transformation, the CEO founded the company because he recognized the need to better address the rapidly changing strategic requirements of the U.S. warfighter. He has brought together a team of defense R&D and engineering experts who have developed systems architectures to greatly advance C2 systems capabilities that ensure U.S. warfighters maintain the operational advantage in the field. You will have early-stage equity ownership and be an integral contributor within an amazing team that is directly improving critical operational capabilities of our Nation's warfighters!

As the SSHO / QC Manager you will be responsible for administering and implementing safety practices and principles to eliminate injuries, improve safety performance and to ensure compliance and understanding of safety policies for new construction, installation, service and maintenance jobs and projects at key DoD facilities in the Southern California area. Some specific responsibilities include:

• Implement, administer and ensure compliance with Company Safety Program and government-accepted Accident Prevention Plans onsite while work is being performed.
• Serve as a technical leader in the realm of workplace safety, in support of leadership and all employees.
• Conduct audits to ensure compliance with company, federal/state and local safety standards.
• Develop, administer, implement and maintain safety programs and policies.
• Coordinate accident prevention initiatives.
• Shape a positive and proactive safety culture.
• Follow up on job schedules, delays on published schedules, approved delays, executed contract delays, and change order approval delays. Participate in on-site coordination and construction meetings.
• Act as point of contact for coordination, ensuring coordination and construction meetings are held on a weekly basis and that personnel are prepared.
• Maintains awareness of project progress through communication with all parties.

In order to be considered for this role, you must have 5+ years of experience preparing and enforcing safety programs on contracts of moderate scope and complexity (up to $2M). 3+ years of experience will be considered if you also are a Certified Safety Professional (CSP) or have a Bachelor's degree within an EHS discipline. You must have completed the OSHA 30- hour construction safety class (or equivalent) as well. You also must have at least 3+ years preparing and enforcing Quality Management System programs on projects up to $2M in scope, and you must be proficient with Microsoft Office products.