Director, USAF Growth Campaign Leader (X-BAT Family of Systems)

Location: Washington, D.C. / Dallas, Texas; on-site in the United States.

Company

hirify.global develops defense technology, including autonomous aircraft and systems for government and military applications.

What you will do

• Own the authoritative USAF campaign picture across concurrent X-BAT Family of Systems pursuits, including strategy status, critical paths, milestones, dependencies, decision points, and campaign health.
• Enable GTM leads with templates, playbooks, data, competitive inputs, cost and schedule inputs, and cross-functional access needed to execute capture plans.
• Coordinate engineering, product, export, legal, contracts, finance, government relations, and business operations against a prioritized campaign plan.
• Identify cross-campaign conflicts involving aircraft, test windows, engineering capacity, approval bandwidth, or indirect investment, and present executive tradeoffs and recommendations.
• Run campaign reviews, gate reviews, risk registers, action tracking, executive dashboards, bid/no-bid reviews, investment prioritization, and campaign-health reporting.
• Drive critical customer responses including RFI, RFP, CSO, and other solicitation vehicles while GTM leads retain ownership of win strategy, price-to-win, and proposal content.

Requirements

• U.S. person under ITAR (22 CFR 120.62), with the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance and Special Access Program eligibility.
• 12–20+ years of experience in capture management, program management, strategic operations, business operations, technical program management, or a comparable cross-functional leadership role.
• Demonstrated success leading complex initiatives with interdependent workstreams across engineering, business development, operations, finance, and executive leadership.
• Working knowledge of USAF funding and fielding processes, including SAF/AQ and HAF staffing, PEO and program-office dynamics, PPBE/POM, OTAs, CSOs, SBIR/STRATFI, AFWERX, and prototype-to-program-of-record transition.
• Ability to influence without direct authority and drive accountability across functions and geographies.
• Strong executive communication skills, including leadership briefings, dashboards, metrics, and decision-support materials.
• Operational rigor in integrated schedules, critical paths, milestones, action tracking, dependency management, and risk mitigation.
• Ability to operate in ambiguous, fast-changing environments with competing priorities across multiple time zones.
• Service orientation toward GTM leads and judgment about when to escalate versus resolve issues independently.

Nice to have

• Active DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance and current Special Access Program accesses.
• Experience supporting DoW, aerospace, autonomy, robotics, aviation, or defense-technology organizations.
• Experience in business development, capture, proposal operations, strategic planning, or growth organizations managing concurrent U.S. Government pursuits.
• Familiarity with foreign disclosure determinations, FMS/DCS pathways, and security cooperation planning.
• Experience building executive dashboards, KPIs, operational scorecards, or portfolio health metrics.
• Experience supporting executive staff, chief-of-staff organizations, Strategy and Operations teams, or enterprise PMOs.
• Fluency with integrated schedule and work-management tools such as Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, or Jira.
• An advanced degree or relevant certification such as an MBA, PMP, or Lean Six Sigma.

Culture & Benefits

• Work is performed on-site in Washington, D.C. or Dallas, Texas.
• Core values are Do What Honor Dictates, Live as a Servant Leader, and Pursue Excellence.
• Servant leadership is central to the role, with success measured by the outcomes of supported GTM leads.
• Veterans and transitioning service members are actively supported, particularly those with U.S. Air Force operational, staff, or acquisition experience.