Growth Operations Manager (Defense Technology)

Location: Bristol, Rhode Island, United States; ability to travel up to 40%; U.S. Person status required for ITAR and export-control compliance.

Company

hirify.global operates in the defense technology sector.

What you will do

• Administer Salesforce and Pryzm CRM platforms, including data hygiene, user management, and workflow configuration.
• Produce sales and pipeline reports, dashboards, and forecasts while maintaining accurate opportunity updates.
• Coordinate product catalogs, pricing references, customer-facing materials, briefings, and capability statements with engineering and finance.
• Plan trade shows, conferences, demonstrations, customer engagements, meetings, travel, equipment shipping, and on-site logistics.
• Develop and improve business-development operating processes, standard operating procedures, KPI tracking, pipeline reviews, and win/loss analysis.
• Coordinate sales activity across marketing, contracts, program management, and executive leadership, including budget and expense tracking.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• At least 3 years of experience in business development operations, sales operations, or a comparable coordination-focused role.
• Experience with government submission portals, including SAM.gov, PIEE, and DSIP.
• Strong organizational, project management, written communication, and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency with Salesforce, Confluence, Jira, Slack, Microsoft Office, and productivity tools; strong Excel skills for dashboard creation and forecasting.
• U.S. Person status required for ITAR and export-control compliance; willingness to travel up to 40%.

Nice to have

• Sales or business development experience in the defense industry.
• Knowledge of defense acquisition strategy and the Department of Defense procurement lifecycle.
• Experience with Pryzm, proposals, RFIs, RFPs, government or prime-contractor submissions, and trade-show logistics.
• Active or eligible U.S. security clearance.

Culture & Benefits

• High-visibility, cross-functional work supporting sales, marketing, and government relations.
• Fast-paced defense technology environment with responsibility for coordinating multiple priorities.
• Regular collaboration with engineering, finance, marketing, contracts, program management, and executive leadership.