Engagement Manager (Homeland Layered Defense), Public Sector

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

Scale's public sector business is providing the best of American commercial technology and innovation to protect the homeland and meet the moment. As a member of our public sector delivery team, you will own relationships critical to the portfolio of clients charged with a layered defense for the United States. You will be a catalyst, willing to go deep, get technical, and drive change. You will manage customer relationships and partners as well as partner with our engineering team to solve Scale’s hardest problems. All of this serves an ultimate goal of delivering cutting-edge agentic AI to orchestrate portfolio management for defense of the homeland.

What it asks for · 6

• 5+ years of experience in technical program management, software engineering, systems engineering, product management, technical consulting, or a related technical delivery role
• Demonstrated ability to build trust with both senior executives and hands-on operational users
• Strong technical fluency and the ability to hold credible conversations with engineering and product teams about AI, software systems, data, and agentic workflows
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with senior government leaders
• Prior military or civilian experience inside a Combatant Command, Numbered Air Force, Air Operations Center, Joint Intelligence Operations Center, or Intelligence Community agency
• Familiarity with Joint Planning, intelligence, targeting, integrated air and missile defense, modeling and simulation, or related mission areas

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• customer7×
• product7×
• experience6×
• technical6×
• engineering5×
• government5×
• operational5×
• workflows5×
• software4×
• user4×
• agentic3×
• air3×
• defense3×
• delivery3×
• management3×
• product requirements3×

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