Director of Mission Integration & Growth
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Washington DC
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Not specified
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Recent operational experience as pilot or aircrew (rank O-4 to O-6) in tactical 5th or 6th Generation tactical aircraft such as the F-35 or F-22, or airlift platforms such as the C-5, C-17, or C-130
- Excellent writing, communication skills with experience presenting to senior executives, Flag officers, and customers
- A low-ego, high-ownership style, and comfortable working directly with engineering, growth, and proposal teams, while overseeing mission analysis, executing capture strategies, or engaging customers
- Able to work on-site in our Washington, DC office, and ability travel up to 50% to customer sites, partner sites, conferences, and other Poseidon offices
- Currently possesses and can maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance with eligibility for a top-secret clearance
Nice to have
- Prior experience working with US Air Force program offices, requirements offices, and/or combatant commands. Deep understanding of US Air Force customer community, requirements process, and operationa
- Prior acquisition or operational experience with contested airlift missions and/or uncrewed RPA or preferably autonomous aerospace platforms executing autonomous and/or manned-unmanned-teaming (MUM-T)
- Experience working in acquisition program offices, requirements offices, combatant commands, or S&T offices
- STEM background
- Experience shaping and leading capture efforts in the defense industry
- High ownership and ability to work in a fast-paced and entrepreneurial start-up environment
- Collaborator who is adaptive and who can lead new and innovative approaches to market
- Experience collaborating with partners, engineering, and growth teams
Full description
About Poseidon Aerospace:
Poseidon Aerospace is reimagining how the world moves goods. We build and operate full-size autonomous cargo aircraft - capable of carrying two tons of payload over a thousand nautical miles. From remote communities to contested logistics operations, our platforms unlock a new cost curve for air freight, making it faster, cheaper, and accessible anywhere it's needed. Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with locations in Washington DC, Oregon, and Maine; we're building something consequential.
This is a dual role. You will lead mission integration activities including operational analysis and mission effectiveness modeling & simulation evaluations to develop operational requirements and decompose them into system requirements that shape the product development roadmap. Additionally, you will work as an integral component of the Growth team by operationalizing our products and developing selected design reference missions and concepts of operation (CONOPs) to address key mission gaps that are a priority for DoW and/or DHS. You will lead customer engagements to articulate the operational utility of the products we development. You will have ownership and responsibility for shaping and capturing opportunities across a variety of mission sets including contested airborne and maritime logistics, personnel recovery, advanced air-launched effects (kinetic & non-kinetic) effects, and other tactical capabilities that close critical mission gaps for our Federal partners.
What You’ll DoMission Integration
- Inform Operational and System Requirements. Lead modeling & simulation activities including operational analysis, mission effectiveness evaluations, and cost analysis to develop operational requirements and decompose them into system requirements that address critical mission gaps communicated to Poseidon through customer engagements and shaping discussions.
- Drive Product Development. Translate customer needs and leverage requirements development activities to inform design and cost trade studies to identify optimal balance of system design features that improve survivability and mission outcomes while reducing unit, operational, and mission costs. Insights gained from such analysis and customer mission gaps will inform the missionization of existing platforms and shape the product development roadmap for future platform development and prototyping.
- Lead all phases of key demonstrations including planning, execution, and reporting of hardware and software simulations, Poseidon validation demos, and customers live operational exercises aimed at validating new mission capabilities and increasing Pwin for new programs and contract awards.
Growth Leadership
- Capture new opportunities. Identify, assess, and capture contested airborne and maritime logistics, personnel recovery, advanced sensing, and advanced kinetic / non-kinetic effects opportunities across the military services including US Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Army as well as the US Coast Guard and relevant Dept. of Homeland Security agencies.