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Business Operations Associate

Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)💼 Full-time💰 $113,000–$113,000🗓 2026-09-24 → 2026-09-26

Core

Support functional organizations and business lines to solve ambiguous operational problems, scale processes, and execute special projects in a fast-paced defense technology environment.

Role type

Senior IC business operations associate

Builds

Operational processes, data-capture systems, and analytics for defense systems

Domain

Defense technology / Operations

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | client delivery | infrastructure

Required skills

End-to-end project management, problem-solving in ambiguous contexts, cross-functional stakeholder management, data analysis using business systems (ERP/MRP/HRIS), strategic planning, independent decision-making, relationship building

Preferred skills

Startup founder or early-stage operator experience, undergraduate degree in STEM

Technologies

ERP, MRP, HRIS

Responsibilities

Own operational projects from definition to implementation, solve problems at the intersection of people/hardware/software, forward-deploy to new locations to establish presence, partner on site selection and M&A diligence, work deeply within data and systems to enable process improvement, project manage distributed stakeholder groups

Seniority

Mid-level, hands-on IC

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