Product Strategy and Operations Senior Lead Advanced Programs
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 develop and lead defense proposal strategies, capture plans, proposal content, review cycles, and submission activities. You will coordinate cross-functional stakeholders, translate customer requirements into persuasive responses, track pursuits, maintain capture dashboards, and support reusable proposal tools and knowledge management.
Requirements
- Active secret clearance with TS/SCI eligibility
- Bachelor’s degree
- 12+ years of defense experience
- 3+ years of proposal management, business development operations, or capture management experience
- Experience with defense-prime proposals valued at $250M+
- Experience leading matrixed proposal teams
- Proposal compliance and volume-management expertise
- Experience with proposal schedules, color-team reviews, production, and delivery
- PowerPoint, writing, editing, and quality-control skills
- Analytical problem-solving skills
Responsibilities
- Develop proposal strategies, win themes, value propositions, and proposal narratives.
- Lead cross-functional proposal efforts.
- Translate customer requirements into compliant proposal content.
- Manage proposal plans, schedules, compliance matrices, assignments, reviews, and submissions.
- Develop technical, management, cost, past-performance, and executive proposal volumes.
- Lead proposal reviews and corrective actions.
- Develop responses to RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, white papers, and capability statements.
- Monitor and qualify government and consortium opportunities.
- Track proposal activity, milestones, risks, dependencies, and decisions.
- Maintain capture trackers, reporting, dashboards, templates, and reusable content.
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity