Shield AI is seeking a Product Portfolio Analyst, X-BAT Family of Systems (FoS) to strengthen the analytical rigor, long-range planning, and operating discipline of the X-BAT FoS Capture organization.
As a core member of the X-BAT FoS Product team, you will partner closely with the X-BAT FoS Product Organization to maintain a high-confidence view of the current and future opportunity pipeline and assist in driving decisive action across the portfolio. You will turn pipeline data into actionable insights that inform prioritization, resource decisions, revenue planning, and long-term growth strategy.
This role owns the integrity and quality of X-BAT FoS portfolio pipeline information in Salesforce and related reporting tools and will establish the standards, review the data for completeness and credibility, identify gaps or inconsistencies, and drive corrective actions across the portfolio.
The ideal candidate brings strong analytical skills, experience working with CRM and business-planning data, comfort partnering with Finance, and the ability to translate complex information into clear recommendations. This role will help ensure X-BAT FoS maintains a resilient pipeline across near-term pursuits and a three- to ten-year opportunity horizon.
What you'll do:
- Maintain an integrated view of the X-BAT FoS opportunity pipeline across near-term, mid-term, and long-range pursuits.
- Analyze opportunities using criteria including timing, estimated value, probability of win, market attractiveness, strategic relevance, expected revenue contribution, and resourcing requirements.
- Partner with the X-BAT FoS Capture Organization to identify priority opportunities, inform portfolio trade-space decisions, and recommend actions to strengthen the pipeline.
- Track changes in opportunity value, timing, stage progression, probability of win, customer funding, and other factors that affect forecast confidence.
- Identify pipeline gaps, timing shortfalls, concentration risks, single-point dependencies, and opportunities that lack sufficient capture activity or next steps.
- Recommend actions to create pipeline resilience, including alternate pursuits, adjacent customers, related mission areas, acquisition pathways, partner opportunities, and additional sources of demand.
- Maintain a forward-looking view of the X-BAT FoS opportunity space across a multi-year horizon and help identify and track actions needed to mature early opportunities into successful capture efforts.
- Serve as the X-BAT FoS Capture organization’s lead for pipeline-data integrity, reporting standards, and Salesforce opportunity-management discipline.
- Establish and maintain common expectations for opportunity stages, required data fields, forecast assumptions, probability assessments, next steps, and update cadence.
- Review Salesforce opportunity records for accuracy, completeness, consistency, and credibility; coordinate with account and opportunity owners to correct gaps, stale data, and unsupported assumptions.
- Develop and maintain concise dashboards, trackers, and pipeline-review products that provide visibility into portfolio health, capture status, forecast changes, and key risks.
- Partner with enterprise business-systems teams, as required, to improve reports, dashboards, workflows, and data structures that support X-BAT FoS pipeline management.
- Maintain common definitions, reporting guidance, and pipeline-management best practices across the organization.
- Partner closely with Finance to ensure a clear, traceable connection between Salesforce opportunity data, bookings assumptions, revenue forecasts, customer funding expectations, and long-range financial plans.
- Reconcile pipeline assumptions, forecast timing, probability assessments, and anticipated award values with financial-planning inputs and revenue-recognition assumptions.
- Support scenario analysis to assess the effect of opportunity delays, funding changes, competitive losses, scope changes, and alternate capture outcomes on the X-BAT FoS forecast.
- Help maintain a recurring pipeline-to-finance review cadence and track resulting actions, decisions, and assumption changes.
- Identify risks to current and future pipeline health, including schedule uncertainty, customer-funding risk, acquisition delays, competitive pressure, overreliance on a limited number of pursuits, and insufficient capture activity.
- Develop risk-mitigation recommendations and contingency plans with capture leads, account owners, Finance, business development, programs, and other stakeholders.
- Support recurring pipeline reviews through time-phased analyses and dashboards that show opportunity maturation, anticipated awards, bookings, backlog, revenue contribution, key decisions, and follow-up actions.
- Support knowledge management by maintaining pipeline assumptions, opportunity histories, risk registers, and lessons learned from wins, losses, cancellations, and schedule slips.
Required qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree with 4+ years of relevant experience or Master’s degree with 2+ years of relevant experience.
- Experience in business development, capture, sales operations, program management, finance, consulting, or another analytical operating environment.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to evaluate incomplete or changing data and develop clear, actionable recommendations.
- Experience using Salesforce to analyze opportunity data, maintain pipeline visibility, develop reports or dashboards, and support business-planning decisions.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, including development of concise analyses, trackers, dashboards, and briefing materials.
- Demonstrated ability to manage data quality, establish reporting standards, and coordinate updates across multiple record owners or stakeholders.
- Experience evaluating opportunities based on timing, value, probability, customer funding, strategic relevance, and expected business impact.
- Experience leading and delivering cross-functional deliverables, decision points, and follow-up actions across multiple concurrent efforts.
- U.S. citizenship required, with the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience supporting U.S. Government capture, defense business development, or government-contracting pipeline management.
- Aviation, aerospace, defense, autonomy, uncrewed systems, tactical aviation, mission systems, AI-enabled capability, or advanced-manufacturing experience.
- Familiarity with DoD or U.S. Government acquisition processes, budget cycles, requirements development, solicitations, and program-of-record pathways.
- Experience developing or improving Salesforce reports, dashboards, opportunity-management processes, data governance, workflow automation, or CRM reporting.
- Experience supporting domestic and international defense pursuits, including Foreign Military Sales, Direct Commercial Sales, or allied defense-market development.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of relevant experience, master's degree with 6+ years, or PhD with 3+ years
- Experience in business development, capture, sales operations, program management, finance, consulting, or another analytical operating environment
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including evaluating incomplete or changing data and developing actionable recommendations
- Experience using Salesforce to analyze opportunity data, maintain pipeline visibility, develop reports or dashboards, and support business-planning decisions
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
- Experience managing data quality, establishing reporting standards, and coordinating updates across multiple stakeholders
- Experience evaluating opportunities based on timing, value, probability, customer funding, strategic relevance, and business impact
- Experience delivering cross-functional deliverables, decision points, and follow-up actions across concurrent efforts
- U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance
- Experience supporting U.S. Government capture, defense business development, or government-contracting pipeline management
- Experience in aviation, aerospace, defense, autonomy, uncrewed systems, tactical aviation, mission systems, AI-enabled capability, or advanced manufacturing
- Familiarity with DoD or U.S. Government acquisition processes, budget cycles, requirements development, solicitations, and program-of-record pathways
- Experience developing or improving Salesforce reports, dashboards, opportunity-management processes, data governance, workflow automation, or CRM reporting
- Experience supporting domestic and international defense pursuits, including Foreign Military Sales, Direct Commercial Sales, or allied defense-market development
Shield AI Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Company materials highlight comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with mental-health support and an EAP. Third-party benefits summaries also portray health coverage as a strong component of the package.
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Retirement Support — Offerings include a 401(k) with employer matching, cited on the careers page and independent benefits directories. Multiple sources indicate a match exists, though exact formulas have varied over time and warrant confirmation.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Company communications describe equity for all full-time hires and stock benefits as part of total rewards. Independent listings also note company equity/RSUs as a standard element.
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At Shield AI, you won't wait years to see your work reach the field. You'll build hardware and software that operates in the real world right now, in the hands of the people who depend on it. Hivemind, our AI pilot, has been flying since 2018. It has flown more than 30 platforms, including an F-16, and it now sits under a U.S. Air Force production contract for Collaborative Combat Aircraft. When you write code or shape a system here, you contribute to technology with a proven flight record and a clear production future. V-BAT flies intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions with an operational record that stretches from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific. It delivers eyes where they matter most, in the most demanding conditions on earth. The teams behind it watch their work get tested where the stakes are real. X-BAT takes its first flight this year. It's an AI-piloted fighter that needs no runway, built to operate where traditional aircraft can't. Join now and you help shape a program at its earliest, most formative stage. That's the kind of ground-floor work that defines a career. Do the most impactful work of your life, on problems that matter. Autonomy at this level asks a lot of you. You'll take on problems in perception, planning, and control that few teams anywhere are equipped to solve. You'll work across disciplines, from aerospace and robotics to machine learning and systems engineering, alongside people who hold themselves to an exacting standard and expect the same from you. Our mission is clear: protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. That purpose runs through every decision, every design review, and every deployment. It's why the work here carries a weight you can feel. Ready to join our mission? Explore our open roles and find where you fit.
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Founded in 2015 by a former Navy SEAL, Shield AI builds AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft. Veterans aren't an afterthought here, they're at every level. It's why the work carries weight: AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft flying real missions, from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific, protecting service members and civilians.
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