Operations Lead

The Opportunity

At Expedition Technology, we are an Agile-first organization building advanced solutions for complex challenges in sensor processing, in both the signal processing and computer vision domains for the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. We are seeking an Operations Lead for a portfolio of high-impact programs and the talented engineers who drive them.

In this role, you will operate at the intersection of execution excellence and people development. You won't just manage schedules; you will build an environment where high-performing teams thrive, ensuring our delivery is data-driven, transparent, and aligned with business goals.

• Portfolio Execution & Financial Performance
  • Drive Delivery Excellence:
    Oversee the execution of a portfolio of technical programs, ensuring they meet financial targets (revenue, margin), schedule, and scope.
  • Agile Leadership:
    Champion an Agile mindset. Move beyond rigid adherence to ceremony and focus on decentralized decision-making, rapid feedback loops, and reducing cycle time.
  • Data-Driven Operations:
    Use operational data to diagnose delivery trends and impediments. Translate execution metrics into actionable insights for the wider business strategy.
• People Leadership & Organizational Culture
  • Talent Development:
    Serve as the primary support for a team of engineers. You are responsible for understanding their career trajectory, coaching, and performance and working with them and their coaches to help build their careers.
  • Servant Leadership:
    Foster a culture of shared consciousness. Your goal is to unblock your teams, not control them.
  • Resource Strategy:
    Partner with business strategy leaders to ensure the right talent is deployed to the right problems, balancing business needs with individual career growth. Collaborate closely with the operations lead team to ensure alignment of resource strategy and actively contribute to cross company organizational culture.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Strategic Alignment:
    Act as the bridge between the technical teams and the business strategy leaders, ensuring that how we execute supports what we are building.
  • Technical Standards:
    Collaborate with internal technical communities of practice to ensure your teams are adopting and contributing to organization-wide best practices in software and infrastructure.

• Experience:
  
  7+ years in technical leadership, with a mix of program management and direct people management of technical teams.
• Domain Expertise:
  Technical fluency in sensor processing (Signal Processing, Computer Vision) and a strong understanding of the DoD/IC community mission and the current state of the art in these technologies.
• Mindset:
  You believe in a Team of Teams approach—you prioritize connectivity and trust over hierarchy. You understand that the best way to scale is to empower the edges of the organization.
• Skillset
  • Deep understanding of Agile methodologies.
  • Financial acumen (forecasting, resource planning).
  • Ability to translate complex technical realities into business clarity.
• Style:
  You are a coach, not a commander. You measure success by the growth of your people and the consistency of your delivery.

Expedition Technology (EXP) designs, develops, and delivers innovative, advanced signal, image, and multi-INT solutions for the defense and intelligence communities. We leverage advanced algorithms, platforms, and technologies to solve our customers' most complex, demanding, and urgent C4

ISR challenges. Our culture promotes individual growth and opportunity, prioritizes a collaborative team spirit, and invites the intellectually curious to creatively solve challenging problems. Headquartered in Northern Virginia's high-tech corridor, EXP is a rapidly growing, privately held, employee-owned company that pushes the boundaries of what is possible every day.

We are building an operating system for growth that respects the craft of engineering. If you are tired of bureaucracy and want to lead in an environment that values transparency, autonomy, and data-driven results, this is your home.

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