Engagement Manager, SOCOM

This role is an engagement manager for a defense-technology company, responsible for owning execution of signed contracts end to end, serving as the customer's primary point of contact during delivery, coordinating across supply chain, finance, and engineering, ensuring training and capability delivery are on time, owning invoicing and commercial administration, identifying and closing gaps before they become customer problems, and surfacing follow-on business within accounts. The role covers Special Operations Command and requires executing by week two, with week one for orientation.

Responsibilities

• Own execution of signed contracts end to end, from award through completion.
• Serve as the customer's primary point of contact during delivery.
• Coordinate across supply chain, finance, and engineering to move the contract, without authority over any of them.
• Make sure training and capability delivery are scheduled and executed on time.
• Own invoicing and the commercial administration of the contract.
• Identify gaps and obstacles before they become the customer's problem, and close them quietly.
• Surface and land follow-on business inside the accounts you run: additional training, additional units, expanded scope.

Requirements

• Five to twelve years of experience. The team is deliberately being kept balanced rather than top heavy, so this is not a senior-executive seat.
• SOCOM intake and logistics fluency. Understands how materiel reaches a special operations end user: rapid acquisition authorities, differences across component commands, fielding and sustainment, and property accountability.
• A proactive cross-functional operator who moves supply chain, finance, and engineering without authority over any of them.
• Identifies gaps before they surface and exercises sound judgment without being told what to prioritize.
• An excellent communicator, credible with engineers, finance, and the customer in the same week.

Nice to have

• Special operations acquisition or program management experience, including component command logistics and rapid acquisition work.
• Credibility with the special operations customer. A special operations background is valuable but not required; delivery experience into the command counts.
• Program or product operations at a defense-technology company.
• Consulting experience with federal or defense-technology delivery work, including real client management under pressure.
• Experience in a growth-stage company where process had to be built or adapted.