At REGENT, we’re on a mission to revolutionize regional transportation between coastal cities. We're not just building vehicles, we're creating a new category of transportation: the Seaglider. These groundbreaking wing-in-ground-effect craft travel just above the water’s surface, combining the speed of an airplane with the low operating costs of a boat. Capable of 180 miles at 180 mph on today's battery tech (and up to 400 miles with next-gen batteries), Seagliders will unlock fast, affordable, and sustainable coastal transit for passengers and cargo - connecting cities, islands, and communities like never before.

Backed by leading investors and powered by a team of passionate, forward-thinking engineers, builders, and operators, we’re now scaling from a breakthrough prototype to full production - and building the team to make it happen.

Role Overview

The Director, Defense Mission Integration is the bridge between REGENT's technical subject-matter experts and our government partners, turning Seaglider capability into operations a service member can plan, train for and execute. You will take mission needs from the Navy, Marine Corps, Joint Force and allied partners and shape them into concepts of operation, vignettes, test events and deliverables that engineering, test and maritime operations teams can build to. In the other direction, you will brief the government on what the vehicles can and cannot do today, so expectations stay honest and credibility builds with every event.

REGENT Defense is the business unit within REGENT focused on the defense market: business development, proposal, capture and execution, international engagement, and capability development. You will sit at the center of that work, reporting to the VP, Defense, managing a Mission Assurance Manager, and working daily with Engineering, Performance, Test, Maritime Ops, Manufacturing and Contracts.

🔧 What You'll Do

Operationalize the Seaglider

Translate Navy, Marine Corps, SOF and allied mission needs into concepts of operation, mission vignettes and operational requirements for all Seaglider variants

Define mission profiles (ISR, ASW and mine warfare, logistics, search and rescue, contested logistics) and the conditions under which each is demonstrated, tested and eventually fielded

Develop the concepts, procedures and training material that make Seaglider operations repeatable for service members, working closely with Maritime Ops, which owns launch and recovery, on sustainment and support

Own the path from experiment to program of record: capture what each exercise proves, what it does not, and what the next event must demonstrate

Be the interface between technical SMEs and the government

Translate government requirements into engineering, test and performance inputs, and translate test data, signatures and limitations back into language operators and program offices act on

Chair the integration working group across Engineering, Performance, Test, Maritime Ops and Manufacturing, and keep payload, interface and power requirements aligned with mission plans

Own the interface documentation and customer-facing technical products: ICDs, payload integration plans, mission plans and test and demonstration reports

Track technical risks, action items and open issues that affect demonstrations and deliveries, and escalate early

Plan and lead exercises, demonstrations and experiments

Plan and execute demonstrations and joint exercises with U.S. and allied partners, from the first planning conference through the after-action debrief

Integrate partner and third-party payloads, sensors, comms and autonomy onto REGENT platforms, including government-furnished equipment and CRADA or consortium partners

Run lessons-learned cycles after every event and feed them into design, procedures and the next test plan

Execute contract deliverables

Plan and deliver contractual reports, demonstrations and analyses across multiple defense awards (OTAs, CRADAs, FAR-based contracts), on schedule and to a high standard