Director USAF Growth Campaign Leader
Shield AI is a U.S. defense-technology company developing mission-autonomy software and autonomous aircraft for military and allied operations.
Funding history
Investors
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.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will maintain the integrated USAF campaign view for X-BAT pursuits and run campaign reviews, risk management, dashboards, action tracking, and escalation. You will coordinate cross-functional resources, identify conflicts and dependencies, support solicitation responses, steward campaign investment, and create reusable capture tools and processes for GTM leaders.
Requirements
- Be a U.S. person under ITAR and able to obtain and maintain DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance and SAP eligibility
- Have 12–20+ years of experience in capture management, program management, strategic operations, business operations, technical program management, or comparable leadership
- Demonstrate success leading complex cross-functional initiatives
- Understand USAF funding, fielding, staffing, acquisition, budget, and rapid-acquisition pathways
- Demonstrate executive communication, integrated scheduling, dependency management, and risk-mitigation skills
- Be able to influence without direct authority
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain the integrated USAF campaign picture
- Enable GTM leads with templates, playbooks, data, and cross-functional access
- Coordinate engineering, product, export, legal, contracts, finance, government relations, and operations
- Identify and escalate cross-campaign resource conflicts, dependencies, and risks
- Run campaign reviews, gate reviews, risk registers, action tracking, and executive dashboards
- Track campaign investment, indirect spend, and resource planning
- Capture lessons learned and develop reusable capture tools, metrics, and playbooks
- Drive cross-functional customer responses and on-time submissions
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity
