Sr Director Aerospace Business Development (Aerospace)

Location: Virtual USA; Golden, Colorado preferred, with qualified candidates in other locations considered. Travel, including international travel, is required up to 40%.

Target hiring range: USD 0.00–0.00; actual compensation is commensurate with experience, skills, and education.

Company

hirify.global manufactures advanced ceramics focused on safety, quality, customer needs, and aerospace applications.

What you will do

• Develop aerospace business opportunities, expand existing customer relationships, and lead strategic market mapping across hirify.global offerings.
• Connect hirify.global R&D, materials, products, and manufacturing capabilities to customers’ technical and application-specific needs.
• Manage long acquisition cycles involving prototyping, testing, qualification, and product development from low TRL through full-rate production.
• Engage with U.S. DoD, DoE, National Laboratories, aerospace primes, and other government organizations to identify funded R&D and manufacturing scale-up programs.
• Build customer relationships, communicate technical value propositions, differentiate hirify.global from competitors, and grow demand through customer education and industry engagement.
• Lead strategic market planning, account strategies, revenue forecasting, product roadmaps, and R&D planning.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, materials, ceramics, electrical, or another equivalent engineering discipline.
• Deep aerospace industry experience in collaborative technical business development and product or program development.
• Fifteen years of combined education and work experience demonstrating the ability to plan and execute extremely complex development cycles.
• Five years of proven results in business revenue growth for a segment or industry.
• Experience with DoD contracting mechanisms and processes for aerospace products, including strong government proposal capability and a history of obtaining government funding for strategic initiatives.
• Product development experience from low TRL to a full-rate-production DoD product line, ideally valued at more than $20 million annually.
• Understanding of engineering drawings and standards, with the ability to develop expertise across hirify.global materials, products, and manufacturing processes.
• Strong interpersonal, organizational, verbal, and written communication skills, including the ability to work with people from diverse cultures and backgrounds.
• Exceptional leadership and team management skills, with a record of building and motivating teams to match market needs.
• Must be a U.S. citizen and able to obtain a DoD SECRET-level clearance.

Nice to have

• Global aerospace experience.
• Experience working with or within large aerospace primes, including the nuances of engaging government-funded programs.
• Understanding of RF and EO/IR products, modeling, and performance indicators.
• Familiarity with high-temperature testing methods and relevant materials.

Culture & Benefits

• Virtual work arrangement within the USA, with Golden, Colorado preferred.
• International travel may be required, up to 40%.
• Work includes collaboration across R&D, manufacturing, commercial, and customer teams.
• Equal opportunity selection decisions are based on job-related factors.