About BMNT

In this role, you will join a rapidly growing innovation consulting firm, BMNT, Inc., headquartered in Palo Alto, CA with an east coast office in Arlington, VA. BMNT is unique because of the focus on Mission Acceleration - increasing the speed at which mission-driven organizations solve complex problems at scale.  BMNT is not only an established thought leader in innovation but is actively changing how organizations think about and solve problems, as demonstrated by the creation of Hacking for Defense (H4D) ®.  Our customers span across the U.S. public sector, and abroad in the United Kingdom and Australia.

About the Role

At BMNT, Senior Analysts are operators responsible for driving execution across the innovation pipeline.

As a Senior Analyst supporting the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Technology Accelerator, you will serve as a core execution lead under the Project Lead —owning project delivery, advancing validated problems into prototype development, and ensuring consistent progress across multiple lines of effort.

This role requires strong ownership, attention to detail, and the ability to operate independently while staying aligned to program priorities. You will manage day-to-day execution, contribute to problem curation and intake, and ensure work products are delivered at a high standard.

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Location: This is a hybrid position within commuting distance to our Arlington, VA office with the expectation of being in the office three (3) days per week and sometimes more often based on customer needs.  Occasional travel required. 

What You Will Be Doing (Responsibilities):

Technology Accelerator Execution 

• Own execution of assigned Technology Accelerator projects from intake through prototype development.
• Maintain visibility on assigned project timelines, deliverables, risks, and dependencies.
• Drive day-to-day progress across projects, ensuring work moves forward without delay.
• Track and manage tasks within established systems (e.g., Monday.com), ensuring accuracy and accountability.
• Identify risks, blockers, and inefficiencies, and resolve or escalate with proposed solutions.
• Ensure project outputs, metrics, and documentation are captured consistently and accurately.

Project Curation, Intake & Pipeline Support

• Develop problem statements to validate and refine projects entering the Technology Accelerator.
• Conduct discovery interviews and research to clarify problem statements, stakeholders, and user needs.
• Develop and maintain intake documentation to support project transition and execution.
• Identify secondary opportunities or adjacent problem areas that can expand project impact.
• Maintain visibility on pipeline activity and contribute to tracking and reporting efforts.

Prototype & MVP Development

• Support and drive execution of minimal viable product (MVP) and prototype development efforts.
• Coordinate with government stakeholders, vendors, and internal teams to meet project milestones.
• Conduct research, testing, and data collection to inform iteration and decision-making.
• Translate findings into clear, actionable deliverables and summaries for stakeholders.

Team Execution & Workflow Management

• Manage day-to-day workflows across assigned efforts, ensuring tasks are completed on time.
• Work with Project Lead 1 to ensure alignment across multiple projects and priorities.
• Lead execution of team deliverables—including reports, AARs, briefings, and communications with oversight from Project Lead and Program Manager.
• Maintain discipline in tracking systems and ensure data is current, accurate, and usable.

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

• Work directly with DLA stakeholders to gather inputs, validate assumptions, and drive project progress.
• Build credibility through consistent execution and high-quality deliverables.
• Communicate clearly and concisely in both written and verbal formats.
• Respond to stakeholder and internal communications in a timely, professional manner.

Experience and Qualifications You’ll Need to Thrive in this Role:

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent professional experience required.
• 4-6 years of relevant experience in consulting, program execution, product development, or a related field.
• Experience working across multiple projects or work streams simultaneously.
• Experience in innovation programs, defense, or federal environments preferred.

Skills & Competencies

• Executes with ownership—takes responsibility for outcomes, not just tasks.
• Strong organizational and task management skills across multiple concurrent efforts.
• Ability to synthesize complex information into clear, actionable insights.
• Demonstrated ability to identify risks and take proactive action.
• Clear and effective communicator with both internal teams and external stakeholders.
• High attention to detail and commitment to quality execution.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and adapting to evolving priorities.
• Curious, coachable, and continuously improving.

Additional Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Common Access Card (CAC).
• Ability to support in-person engagements and occasional travel.
• Excitement for BMNT’s mission and delivering innovation within the federal space.

What Success Looks Like

• Projects consistently progress from intake to prototype with minimal friction.
• Tasks and deliverables are completed on time with high quality.
• Risks are identified early and addressed before impacting execution.
• Stakeholders are informed, engaged, and confident in project progress.
• The Technology Accelerator pipeline remains active, organized, and outcome-driven.

If you are a self-starter with an obsession for outcomes, not activities and a history of achievements, and enjoy working on projects with collaborative and creative teams, this could be the right role for you!

Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

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In this role, you will join a rapidly growing innovation consulting firm, BMNT, Inc., headquartered in Palo Alto, CA with an east coast office in Arlington, VA. BMNT is unique because of the focus on Mission Acceleration - increasing the speed at which mission-driven organizations solve complex problems at scale. BMNT is not only an established thought leader in innovation but is actively changing how organizations think about and solve problems, as demonstrated by the creation of Hacking for Defense (H4D) ®. Our customers span across the U.S. public sector and abroad in the United Kingdom.

About the Role:

BMNT is hiring a Junior Program Analyst for the Hacking for Defense® (H4D) Program. H4D is a nationwide university program that leverages student teams to address national security problems facing the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community.

At BMNT, Analysts play an integral role in the consultative process that forms the basis for everything we do for our customers, and they support the entire project life cycle, including facilitated workshops and product development.

A significant portion of the Analyst role is Problem Curation, a specialized tradecraft developed by BMNT to help our customers validate problems worth spending time, energy, and resources to solve. A high-performing Analyst will therefore demonstrate excellence, discipline, and consistency in analysis and critical thinking and take initiative to understand our customers’ needs. This will be done by interviewing a diverse and unique spectrum of people affected by the problem in order to collect qualitative and quantitative data that will help to rapidly identify the specific customer pain point to solve.

We expect Analysts to be cognizant of hidden assumptions, adept at clearly articulating their findings, and steadfast in their search for and awareness of additional needs that may surface from customer engagements, including how to improve BMNT products and services so they continue to drive customer outcomes.

This role in particular includes working with H4D as it supports customers from across government and industry. It will require good data gathering and analytics skills to ensure we establish a foundation with which to better understand our customers and trends in the marketplace.

Location: This is a hybrid position within commuting distance to our Arlington, VA office with the expectation of being in the office three (3) days per week and sometimes more often based on customer needs.  

What You’ll Be Doing (Responsibilities):

Program:

• Proactively communicating with customers.
• Researching related and relevant industries to find potential solutions from use-cases in the commercial sector.
• Analyzing findings and turning the data into content that customers can easily digest, understand, and use to take meaningful action.
• Directly supporting the foundational modules of BMNT workshops.
• Models the desired behaviors of a successful contributor at BMNT and embraces the BMNT Bushido.

Communications:

• Be able to present clear and cogent presentations using PowerPoint or similar applications.
• Ability to write and present arguments.

Data:

• Acquiring data from primary or secondary data sources and maintaining databases.
• Interpreting data, analyzing results using statistical techniques.
• Developing and implementing data analyses, data collection systems and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and quality.
• Work with management to prioritize business and information needs.
• Locating and defining new process improvement opportunities.

Experience and Qualifications You’ll Need to Thrive in the Role:

• Excitement for BMNT’s mission.
• The ability to provide valuable, succinct, and actionable insights to others in written or verbal form from large amounts of information.
• A self-starter with an obsession for outcomes, not activities and a history of achievements.
• Humility and a commitment to self-improvement and self-awareness, including proactively seeking and welcoming constructive feedback from colleagues.
• Curiosity and an always-be-learning attitude, including recognizing when help is needed and seeking new ideas or perspectives to accomplish an objective.
• Attention to detail and the ability to manage and prioritize many concurrent tasks.
• The ability to execute and support data-oriented projects.
• Bachelor’s Degree.
• One to two years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience with the Hacking for Defense program as an undergraduate or graduate university student preferred but not required.
• US citizenship required.

If you are a self-starter with an obsession for outcomes, not activities and a history of achievements, and enjoy working on projects with collaborative and creative teams, this could be the right role for you!

Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

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