Executive Vice President, Integrated Air and Missile Defense

Job Description

Job Description

Overview

Executive Vice President, Integrated Air and Missile Defense

LOCATION: Huntsville, AL (ONSITE)

JOB STATUS: Full-time

REPORTS TO: President, Mission Solutions

CLEARANCE: TS/SCI | U.S. Citizenship required

TRAVEL: Up to 50%

SALARY RANGE: $275K - $350K

 

 

Our adversaries are betting they can overwhelm America’s defenses—with more threats, more complex attacks, and weapons that challenge the economics of defending against them. 

 

Help make that a losing bet. 

 

We are hiring an Executive Vice President to lead Astrion’s Integrated Air and Missile Defense mission area with an opportunity and expectation to drive transformative growth. You will take a business built on trusted technical advice and grow it substantially, into one that also wins, fields, and sustains solutions. To get there, you will build an organization that attracts exceptional people, inspires their best work, and equips them to deliver capabilities that help America and its allies detect earlier, decide faster, and defeat threats affordably. 

 

The Mandate  

Astrion brings deep experience in threat modeling, modeling and simulation, systems engineering, integration, acquisition, and test and evaluation. Our people understand the missions, the systems, and the consequences of getting them wrong. That expertise is where growth starts. We need a leader who will build on it and take the business well beyond where it is today. 

 

You will strengthen differentiated services and turn that mission knowledge into software and technology solutions customers can acquire, field, scale, and sustain. That includes positioning Astrion to contribute to Golden Dome and other homeland, regional, and allied defense priorities. 

 

As the single accountable executive for the mission area, you will own its strategy, customer relationships, program execution, financial performance, and talent with the responsibility, accountability, and authority to achieve portfolio growth that matches or exceeds the tremendous expansion we see in this mission space today. You will set priorities, allocate resources, choose pursuits, build your leadership team, and own the results. 

 

Missions are won at the seams. Your responsibility is to connect sensors, command and control, battle management, and weapons across systems, platforms, organizations, and domains. Identify where those connections fail and build the capabilities and partnerships to close the gaps. 

 

WHAT YOU WILL OWN

• Set a strategy that directs action.  Diagnose and deeply understand customer mission challenges, assess foreign threats and capabilities, assess competitive solutions and gaps, and choose where to compete and add value to our customers. Address the threats and adversary’s strengths and weaknesses across the entire threat spectrum. Determine solutions to defeat those threats from left of launch through boost, midcourse, and terminal phases. Make investment decisions on where we need to invest to develop differentiated services and product solutions.  

• Build customer trust and win consequential business. Engage senior leaders across MDA, the Services, Combatant Commands, the Joint Staff, and acquisition organizations. Shape requirements, funding, and acquisition pathways. Expand existing programs and personally lead the captures that can change the business’s trajectory. 

• Deliver on current commitments. Hold program managers and technical leaders accountable for quality, schedule, cost, and customer outcomes. Surface risks early and make timely decisions. Maintain disciplined oversight of staffing, funding, contract scope, subcontractors, and contractual, security, and cybersecurity obligations. 

• Own the economics. Deliver revenue, margin, adjusted EBITDA, cash, and working capital against the operating plan. Understand performance at the program level. Improve productivity, address weak economics, and invest in profitable growth while preserving mission performance. 

• Turn expertise into fieldable solutions. Work with Astrion Park, the Chief Engineer, and technology leaders to move capabilities from demonstration into operational use. Develop repeatable offerings with credible paths to acquisition, deployment, and sustainment. Manage organizational conflicts of interest as advisory expertise informs solution development. 

• Build an exceptional team. Recruit and develop leaders who can own significant parts of the business. Strengthen capture, solution architecture, engineering, and program leadership. Retain critical talent, address underperformance, and prepare successors. Give people clear authority and hold them accountable. 

• Lead across Astrion. Connect IAMD opportunities with the company’s space, autonomous warfare, and layered defense capabilities. Work with enterprise growth and product leaders on investments and winning solutions. Build partnerships that improve customer outcomes and competitive position. 

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 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 a business or organization, supported by specific examples of competitive wins, improved performance, and capabilities delivered.
• Deep understanding of integrated air and missile defense missions, threats, operational requirements, and the relationships among 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 strong 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, sound strategic judgment, unyielding ethics and integrity, grit and courage, and the ability to challenge technical and business assumptions constructively.
• U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain the security clearance and access required for this role.

HIGHLY VALUED QUALIFICATIONS

• 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.

What Success Looks Like  

Within the first 6-12 months, the mission area has a focused strategy reflected in pursuit decisions, investments, and resource allocation. Current programs reliably meet commitments. Financial performance improves, and the leadership team operates with clear ownership. 

 

The pipeline contains qualified opportunities supported by customer engagement and credible win strategies. Important competitive wins strengthen Astrion’s position. Advisory and engineering expertise is becoming reusable software, technology, and fieldable capability—with a customer and acquisition path behind it.