Director of Discovery & Framing
Core
Lead and scale a dedicated Discovery & Framing function to help defense customers define, quantify, and measure mission-critical problems before solution design.
Role type
Senior, hands-on strategy leader (Head of Discovery & Framing)
Builds
A scalable methodology, playbook, and team for high-value customer engagements
Domain
Defense / Strategic Consulting / Problem Definition
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Strategic problem definition, root cause analysis, stakeholder mapping, executive facilitation, hypothesis-driven discovery, impact quantification, decision system analysis, output synthesis
Preferred skills
Defense industry experience, mission operations knowledge, ambiguity navigation, team building
Technologies
None stated
Responsibilities
Facilitate high-value engagements with customer executives and operators; establish D&F methodology and quality standards; coach and develop practitioners; produce concise executive-quality outputs; map decision systems and funding paths; validate problem framing with customers.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership responsibilities