Director of Capture Management - Layered Defense, Autonomous Warfare & Integrated Fires

Location: Onsite in Huntsville, Alabama; Los Angeles, California; or Arlington, Virginia. Travel up to 50% depending on customer, pursuit, and mission needs.

Salary: $200,000–$265,000 annually.

Company

hirify.global operates in defense, national security, civil space, homeland security, and mission-critical technical services.

What you will do

• Lead strategic capture campaigns across layered defense, autonomous warfare, and integrated fires mission areas.
• Identify, qualify, and shape opportunities with military services, Combatant Commands, service labs, Joint C-UAS stakeholders, RCCTO, IFMC, and MDA.
• Develop customer engagement plans covering mission needs, acquisition timelines, funding priorities, decision makers, and pain points.
• Translate customer needs into win themes, solution discriminators, teaming strategies, pricing considerations, and pursuit priorities.
• Lead cross-functional teams across business development, operations, technical specialists, contracts, pricing, finance, recruiting, and executive leadership.
• Prepare capture plans, leadership briefings, gate reviews, investment recommendations, KPIs, and pursuit health assessments.

Requirements

• 20+ years of experience in capture management, business development, program management, defense acquisition, military operations, civil space, homeland security, cyber, or related mission growth.
• Proven success personally leading and winning complex federal captures in defense, national security, civil space, homeland security, or mission-critical technical services.
• Experience in layered defense, autonomous warfare, integrated fires, or related areas such as counter-UAS, uncrewed systems, sensor fusion, electronic warfare, directed energy, C2/BMC2, operational test, training, or mission integration.
• Working knowledge of FAR/DFARS, IDIQs, task orders, GWACs, OTAs, CSOs, rapid prototyping, recompetes, price-to-win, and probability-of-win methods.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, national security, robotics, aerospace, computer science, systems engineering, public policy, or a related field.
• U.S. citizenship and Secret eligibility required; Top Secret and CI Poly are preferred.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI-enabled software, mission engineering, cyber assurance, modeling and simulation, wargaming, digital engineering, test automation, or mission integration.
• Military, government civilian, or industry experience in fires, air defense, force protection, autonomy, uncrewed systems, electronic warfare, operational test, or command and control.
• Relationships with defense primes, autonomy companies, UxS providers, sensor and effector OEMs, nontraditional technology firms, or specialized mission partners.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaboration with senior growth, mission, technical, customer-facing, and executive leaders.
• Engagement with government customers, industry partners, technical exchanges, and mission-focused organizations.
• Data-driven pursuit decisions tied to customer mission outcomes and measurable capture KPIs.