Manager, Business Development, Civil Aviation (Aerospace)

Location: On-site at least four days per week at the hirify.global Center in Maplewood, Minnesota, United States. Travel may include up to 25% domestic and international travel. Relocation may be authorized.

Expected compensation: $188,251–$230,084, including base pay plus variable incentive pay if eligible.

Company

hirify.global develops technologies and products across global markets, including aerospace and defense applications.

What you will do

• Define aerospace and defense airframes and structures market needs, customer challenges, industry trends, priority applications, and growth opportunities.
• Gather and synthesize customer pull and voice-of-customer insights to inform portfolio decisions, innovation priorities, new product introductions, and commercialization plans.
• Identify applications, cross-selling opportunities, technology gaps, and customer-backed growth opportunities across aerospace OEMs, tier suppliers, MROs, defense customers, and strategic accounts.
• Support business case development, opportunity evaluation, go-to-market strategy, launch readiness, customer demonstrations, trade shows, and commercialization milestones.
• Connect customer needs with capabilities across application engineering, Corporate Labs, platform teams, product teams, marketing, sales, portfolio teams, and partner divisions.
• Represent aerospace and defense priorities in customer meetings, portfolio reviews, innovation workshops, venture evaluation, trade events, and industry forums.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Marketing, Materials Science, Electronics, Aerospace Engineering, or a science field, completed and verified before starting.
• At least seven years of experience in business development, segment or product marketing, product management, technical sales, strategic marketing, or commercial strategy in a private, public, government, or military environment.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship for employment visa status.
• Ability to translate customer needs, voice-of-customer insights, market trends, and unmet needs into business opportunities and innovation priorities.
• Strong analytical, communication, presentation, executive-ready synthesis, customer orientation, strategic opportunity framing, and cross-functional influence skills.
• Experience supporting business cases, opportunity screening, commercialization planning, strategic growth initiatives, customer application mapping, and product application heat maps.
• Understanding of portfolio and platform strategy, new product introduction, stage-gate, go-to-market, value propositions, competitive positioning, and commercialization readiness.
• Ability to work with sales, marketing, technical, laboratory, product, platform, portfolio, and application engineering teams in cross-functional, matrixed environments.
• Knowledge of aerospace qualification, certification, specification, procurement, and commercialization environments.

Nice to have

• MBA or advanced degree in business, engineering, aerospace, materials science, or a related discipline.
• Experience in aerospace, defense, electronics, semiconductor, power electronics, advanced materials, or related technical markets.
• Experience with aerospace airframes and structures applications, including adhesives, tapes, films, composites, sealants, surface preparation, surface protection, structural bonding, or related technologies.
• Working knowledge of hirify.global technologies, platforms, product portfolios, and internal technical capabilities relevant to aerospace and defense applications.
• Experience supporting strategic customer opportunities, external collaborations, innovation workshops, portfolio reviews, or venture evaluation activity.

Culture & Benefits

• On-site working model requiring at least four days per week at the Maplewood facility.
• Compensation includes base pay and variable incentive pay if eligible.
• Benefits may include medical, dental and vision coverage, health savings and flexible spending accounts, disability benefits, life insurance, paid absences, and retirement benefits.
• Safety is a core value, with expectations to follow safety policies, identify hazards, and support continuous improvement.
• Employees must comply with corporate policies, procedures, security standards, confidentiality obligations, and applicable U.S. export control requirements.