Director of Growth Operations (Space)

Location: Must be performed within the Northern Virginia or San Jose region. Access to export-controlled information requires U.S. person status, an applicable authorization exemption, or eligibility and reasonable likelihood of obtaining export authorization.

Salary: $170,000–$251,000 per year, plus incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.

Company

Space systems provider designing, building, and operating LEO satellite constellations for mission-critical Earth intelligence, climate monitoring, and national security applications.

What you will do

• Lead a multidisciplinary Growth Operations team covering partner management, proposal management, technical writing, BD analytics and research, and pricing.
• Own end-to-end proposal operations, including schedules, compliance, resourcing, and quality across concurrent pursuits.
• Identify and manage strategic partnerships and teaming agreements that strengthen competitive positioning.
• Build the pricing and price-to-win function and mature market intelligence, competitive analysis, and pipeline reporting.
• Design scalable CRM, reporting, proposal, knowledge management, and reusable-content systems and playbooks.
• Partner with business development, mission architecture, engineering, finance, contracts, legal, marketing, and mission innovation while mentoring direct reports.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in business operations, proposal management, or related business development support functions.
• Experience building and managing multidisciplinary teams and scaling operations in a fast-growing organization.
• Experience with pricing or price-to-win processes and cross-functional coordination with Finance.
• Strong process design, program management, written communication, verbal communication, and prioritization skills.
• Experience in aerospace, defense, space, or satellite industries is relevant; CRM and proposal management tool experience is useful.
• Must satisfy applicable U.S. Government export-control access requirements.

Nice to have

• Experience managing partners or teaming relationships in a capture or business development context.
• Experience with CRM and proposal management tools such as HubSpot.
• Active or recent U.S. Government security clearance.
• Master's degree in a related field.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with equity compensation.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan, short- and long-term disability insurance, and life insurance.
• Three weeks of paid vacation for new employees, 12 paid holidays, unlimited sick time, and paid parental leave.
• Commitment to diversity, equal employment opportunity, and reasonable accommodations during the application and interview process.