What are the responsibilities and job description for the Engineering Operations Manager position at Rebellion Defense?
Our Rebellion:
Rebellion Defense builds mission-focused AI products for the defense and security of the United States, the United Kingdom, and our allies. We are a well capitalized, venture-backed technology company that creates software which transforms data into decision advantage.
Our people are passionate about creating a company where technologists empower our military and civil servants to solve some of the hardest problems in government. Rebellion Defense is driven by our mission — but a set of core values binds us together: we hire by them, operate through them, and uphold them in every decision we make for ourselves and for our customers.
Your Rebel Team: Engineering.
The engineering team is focused on building products that apply artificial intelligence to analyze, secure, and deliver critical data to deter threats and drive mission success for our defense and national security customers.
How you’ll make a difference in this role:
We are looking to add an Operations Manager to our Product Engineering Operations team. As an Engineering Operations Manager, you will work closely with engineering teams to accelerate successful product development and delivery of systems at scale and at the edge. You will collaborate closely with ML engineers working on models, data scientists working on research, and software engineers, as well as engage with stakeholders across the organization — UX designers, program managers, and product leads.
This position is based out of our Washington D.C. office.
This role reports to the Product Engineering Operations Lead.
What your mission is:
- Work with Product and Engineering leads to ensure all project dependencies are clearly communicated and tracked across the organization
- Collaborate with project leads and stakeholders to ensure the team is delivering against program expectations and a product roadmap
- Promote team cohesion, effective team processes, and the alignment of engineering team growth with strategic objectives
- Identify and mitigate risks to ensure successful program execution
- Communicate program status with internal stakeholders
- Align PE deliverables to strategic goals while ensuring we are able to maintain delivery to existing customers
- Support the standardization of execution process across the PE organization
You may be fit for this role if your expertise aligns to:
- Experience designing, implementing, and deploying new processes to improve delivery cadence and quality
- Been an active part of coordinating execution and managing expectations across a diverse team with many internal and external dependencies
- Successfully worked with engineering teams in defining, planning, and executing against a product roadmap
- Possess a strong bias towards action, are self-directed, detail-oriented, and enjoy figuring out the most important problem to work on
- Deep understanding of portfolio and capacity planning
- Experience applying and coaching a variety of Agile methodologies
The Nature of our Work:
We are driving fast change to an extremely regulated industry. Many of the national security programs that are supported by Rebellion’s products operate in secure environments and access to those spaces and the data in them may require an active personnel security clearance. It is a requirement of this position that you are able to obtain and hold a personnel security clearance at the right level.
Our commitment to candidate experience:
- We are a team of advocates for our candidates while building a fair and equitable process.
- Our team empowers our candidates, business partners, and each other through transparency, honesty, and empathy.
- We are committed to hiring a unique and diverse team with the shared vision that Rebellion is the go-to AI suite for national defense and security.
Our Interview Process:
- To start, you’ll have an initial 30 minute conversation with one of our amazing recruiters to learn more about you and your career goals.
- Next, you’ll dive deeper into your background and expertise with the Hiring Manager for 30-45 minutes
- Lastly, you will have the opportunity to meet with members across our team for competency focused interviews covering both technical aspects of the role and our company culture.
What we offer you:
- An opportunity to be a part of something bigger; a mission with real impact
- A chance to be a part of a people-first team
- Robust career growth and advancement opportunities
- A comprehensive range of benefits that are fair, equitable, and competitive that include the following:
- Company-paid, full coverage, inclusive health care (Medical, Dental Vision) for you and your family.
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Annual Vacation Bonus
- Generous Parental Leave
- Stock option grants
- Retirement & Savings Plan with company match
An Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
Rebellion Defense is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. Rebellion Defense does not discriminate against applicants on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic in accordance with federal, state, and local law.
Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate:
As a condition of employment, all candidates will need to submit official COVID-19 vaccine documentation. Rebellion Defense will consider and review reasonable accommodation requests based on medical or religious grounds for qualified candidates. Please consider this new requirement when applying to Rebellion Defense.