Director International Growth Campaign Leader

Shield AI is a U.S. defense-technology company developing mission-autonomy software and autonomous aircraft for military and allied operations.

San Diego, United States
About Shield AI

Founded in 2015, Shield AI builds Hivemind autonomy software and V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft for operations in contested, GPS- and communications-denied environments. Its current site also presents Aechelon synthetic-reality simulation and Vision Systems detection and tracking products.

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Candidate Availability

Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will own the integrated international campaign plan for X-BAT pursuits. You will coordinate cross-functional dependencies, maintain approval and disclosure roadmaps, identify resource conflicts, run campaign operating cadences, provide executive decision support, and create reusable campaign tools and metrics.

Requirements

  • 12+ years in international B2G capture management, program management, strategic operations, business operations, technical program management, or a comparable leadership role
  • Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives
  • Working knowledge of FMS, DCS, hybrid acquisition pathways, approval processes, disclosure, and exportability sequencing
  • Ability to influence without direct authority
  • Executive communication skills
  • Experience with integrated schedules, critical paths, milestones, dependency management, and risk mitigation
  • Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain the integrated international campaign picture
  • Provide GTM leads with templates, playbooks, data, and cross-functional access
  • Synchronize engineering, product, export, legal, contracts, finance, government relations, and business operations
  • Maintain approval, disclosure, exportability, and interagency sequencing roadmaps
  • Identify and escalate cross-campaign conflicts, dependencies, and risks
  • Run campaign reviews, gate reviews, risk registers, action tracking, and executive dashboards
  • Track campaign investment, indirect spend, and resource planning
  • Create repeatable campaign tools, templates, metrics, and playbooks

Benefits

  • Bonus
  • Benefits
  • Equity
  • Temporary benefits package after 60 days of employment for eligible temporary employees