Senior Program Director, Next Generation C-UAS Missile (NGCM)

Location: Huntsville, Alabama, United States; onsite role with travel to customer, supplier, manufacturing, and test locations as required.

Salary: $178,000–$284,750 per year.

Company

hirify.global develops autonomous defense systems and technologies across air, land, sea, space, and cyber, including drones, loitering munitions, autonomy, and space resilience.

What you will do

• Lead the Next Generation C-UAS Missile program and advance the Freedom Eagle-1 missile system from development and demonstration through qualification, operational deployment, and production.
• Own program cost, schedule, technical performance, contractual delivery, financial results, forecasts, and recovery actions.
• Establish and maintain the integrated program baseline, including the Work Breakdown Structure, Integrated Master Schedule, control account structure, and Performance Measurement Baseline.
• Direct EVMS performance measurement, Estimate at Completion reviews, variance analysis, baseline change control, and Integrated Baseline Reviews.
• Lead the transition from prototype hardware to a qualified, configuration-controlled, producible missile system, including manufacturing, supplier, facility, workforce, tooling, and material readiness.
• Lead multidisciplinary engineering, test, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, business, subcontractor, government customer, and executive engagements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, finance, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• At least 15 years of progressively responsible experience in defense or aerospace, including leadership of complex defense hardware programs.
• Accountable Program Manager or Program Director experience for a major defense hardware program, with ownership of financial performance, contractual delivery, technical execution, and customer commitments.
• Program-level EVMS leadership beyond individual control account management, including baseline establishment, integrated cost and schedule performance, Estimate at Completion development, corrective action, and baseline change control.
• Successful leadership of a defense hardware product from development or prototype testing into initial production, including manufacturing readiness, supplier readiness, configuration control, and production delivery.
• Experience owning program budgets, financial forecasts, resource allocation, and execution recovery plans.
• Experience directing integrated engineering, test, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and business teams; managing major subcontractors; and resolving supplier technical, quality, cost, or schedule issues.
• Working knowledge of EIA-748 EVMS principles, integrated scheduling, critical-path management, and risk management.
• Experience representing programs to government customers and executive leadership.
• Ability to obtain and maintain the required Secret security clearance, qualify as a U.S. person or obtain an applicable export license under ITAR/EAR requirements, and travel as needed.

Nice to have

• Experience leading missile, interceptor, guided weapon, air defense, or counter-UAS programs.
• Experience supporting U.S. Army acquisition programs and government program offices.
• Experience leading qualification activities, flight-test campaigns, production readiness reviews, and low-rate initial production.
• Experience establishing or expanding manufacturing facilities and production capacity.
• Experience with customer EVMS surveillance, Integrated Baseline Reviews, Manufacturing Readiness Levels, and Technology Readiness Levels.
• Experience managing development and production across multiple contract types.
• Advanced degree in engineering, business administration, or a related discipline.
• Project Management Professional certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular full-time employment with a 9/80 work schedule and paid holiday shutdown.
• Medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits with company matching.
• Mission-focused environment developing defense technology and autonomous systems.
• Employment is subject to ITAR/EAR compliance, security-clearance requirements, and applicable U.S. person or export-license eligibility.

Hiring process

• Applications are accepted from principals only; agencies are not accepted.