Executive Vice President, Integrated Air and Missile Defense (Aerospace)

Location: Huntsville, Alabama, United States (onsite); travel up to 50%. U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain the required security clearance are required.

Salary: $275K–$350K.

Company

hirify.global provides technical advice, systems engineering, modeling and simulation, integration, acquisition, and test and evaluation capabilities for homeland, regional, and allied defense missions.

What you will do

• Set the strategy, investment priorities, competitive positioning, and growth plan for the Integrated Air and Missile Defense mission area.
• Build senior customer relationships across MDA, military Services, Combatant Commands, the Joint Staff, and acquisition organizations; shape requirements, funding, acquisition pathways, and major captures.
• Oversee current programs, including quality, schedule, cost, staffing, funding, contract scope, subcontractors, security, cybersecurity, and customer outcomes.
• Own revenue, margin, adjusted EBITDA, cash, working capital, program economics, and profitable growth.
• Convert advisory and engineering expertise into reusable software, technology products, and fieldable solutions with acquisition, deployment, and sustainment paths.
• Recruit, develop, and lead executives and cross-functional teams while building partnerships across hirify.global and the defense ecosystem.

Requirements

• Executive leadership of complex defense, aerospace, or national security businesses, programs, or portfolios with demonstrated financial, operational, and customer results.
• Demonstrated success growing or transforming an organization, including competitive wins, improved performance, and delivered capabilities.
• Deep understanding of integrated air and missile defense missions, threats, operational requirements, sensing, tracking, discrimination, battle management, command and control, and integrated fires.
• Experience engaging senior government and military customers, shaping funded requirements, and leading competitive pursuits from early positioning through award.
• Financial judgment across P&L management, margins, cash generation, working capital, investment decisions, and program economics.
• Experience delivering complex technical programs and connecting engineering decisions to mission effectiveness, fielding schedules, and affordability.
• Ability to recruit, develop, and lead teams across geographically distributed organizations while managing change and maintaining customer trust.
• Strong understanding of government contracting, including FAR/DFARS, procurement integrity, contract performance, and organizational conflicts of interest.
• Clear executive communication, strategic judgment, ethics and integrity, grit, courage, and the ability to challenge technical and business assumptions constructively.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain the security clearance and access required for the role.

Nice to have

• Leadership experience within or supporting MDA, Service air and missile defense organizations, Combatant Commands, the Joint Staff, or OSD.
• Experience contributing to Golden Dome or comparable homeland and integrated defense initiatives.
• Success converting advisory and engineering expertise into reusable software, technology products, and operational solutions.
• Experience building partnerships with defense primes, emerging technology companies, and allied or multinational defense organizations.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time executive role reporting to the President, Mission Solutions.
• Up to 50% travel.
• Responsibility and authority for strategy, customer relationships, program execution, financial performance, talent, and portfolio results.
• Success is measured through focused strategy, reliable program commitments, improved financial performance, qualified pipeline growth, competitive wins, and fieldable capabilities.