Director Minerva Frontline Applications

Your mandate is to:

• Lead and inspire a multidisciplinary engineering organization comprising four core teams: Frontend Engineering, Backend Engineering, Integration Engineering, and Agentic C2.
• Double-lead alongside the Chief Architect. You will own the people management and the "what" (roadmap, features, and team direction), while the Architect owns the "how" (engineering execution and technical quality).
• Drive rapid innovation by overseeing a dedicated squad focused on pushing the edge of the possible in C2, quickly prototyping new concepts to drive new capabilities into operation through real-world impact.
• Unify physical and digital by ensuring Minerva Frontline seamlessly connects to all STARK physical programs, capable of commanding specific hardware features under real-world conditions .

You are an energetic and highly structured leader who thrives at the intersection of rapid innovation and battle-tested reliability, possessing the drive to orchestrate a multidisciplinary software organization in a high-stakes environment where "good enough" is never the standard. The role is for someone who:

• Brings infectious energy and structure, exciting the team to tackle the complex tasks ahead.
• Collaborates deeply to integrate a growing number of system and battlefield requirements into Minerva Frontline Applications.
• Communicates crisply and persuasively across all levels.
• Keeps teams aligned and executing flawlessly when stakes are at their highest.
• Turns ambiguity into a clear, actionable direction.

Responsibilities

Own the "What" & People Management

• You are the operational and visionary leader of the team, defining what gets built and ensuring the people building it are supported and thriving.
• People Leadership: Act as the primary people manager for the entire Minerva Frontline Applications team, fostering an energetic, high-performance culture.
• Roadmap Ownership: Drive the team's dedicated development roadmap to create a battle-tested software suite that works to the highest standards under real-life conditions.
• Requirements Structuring: Partner closely with other program leads to structure tasks, define clear objectives, and prioritize features for the engineering squads.

The Double-Lead Partnership

• You operate in lockstep with the Team Architect to ensure visionary goals meet flawless technical execution.
• Collaborative Decision-Making: Make critical roadmap and product decisions in close collaboration with the Architect, ensuring all plans are technically viable and can be seamlessly executed.
• Quality Assurance: Align your product vision with the Architect's engineering strategy to guarantee an extraordinary level of quality in our software output.

Orchestrate Cross-Functional Delivery & Innovation

• You coordinate diverse engineering disciplines to deliver a unified, mass-scalable C2 product.
• Team Synchronization: Synchronize the efforts of your engineering teams to deliver cohesive, reliable software updates.
• Edge-of-the-Possible R&D: Guide the innovation team to quickly try out new things, evaluating prototypes to make decisive calls on which capabilities graduate into the actual software suite.
• Hardware Interoperability: Maintain tight ties to all STARK physical programs, ensuring the software suite controls all specific features of our unmanned systems while remaining operator-friendly.

Qualifications

Experience

• Proven experience in software engineering leadership, specifically managing multi-disciplinary teams.
• Demonstrated success in double-leadership or highly collaborative models, particularly partnering with technical architects or lead engineers.
• Experience building mission-critical software suites—ideally with ties to hardware, robotics, or complex interconnected systems.
• A background in military service and especially in the Cyber / IT domain is a strong plus.

Core Qualities

• The "Stark" Factor: You are comfortable with ambiguity, thrive under pressure, and possess the "founder's grit" needed to build a department from a blank sheet of paper.
• Structured Energy: You bring a contagious energy to the team while maintaining the rigorous organizational structure necessary to execute complex roadmaps.
• Mission-First Mindset: You are obsessed with customer outcomes. You don’t consider a project finished until the customer has achieved their mission objective.
• Risk Sentinel: You have an uncanny ability to spot problems, dependencies, and organizational tensions well before others notice them.
• Crisp Communicator: You effortlessly distill complex technical and strategic contexts into simple, compelling written and spoken communication.
• Trusted Operator: You build trust rapidly, operating with the highest levels of discretion, integrity, and a low-ego attitude.
• Owner’s Mindset: You move with urgency, take full ownership, and relentlessly follow through until the result is delivered.

Tools & Mindset

• Proficient with modern tools like Jira, Confluence, and advanced planning/reporting platforms.
• Highly proactive, exceptionally structured, and fully capable of independently driving complex projects to the finish line.
• Able to partner closely with engineers, understanding their needs and matching it with needs of our military customers.
• A mature understanding of handling classified information and supporting B2G (Business-to-Government) customers.

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