Vice President, Space and Missile Defense

Vice President Space and Missile Defense

Company Overview:

KODA is a people-first small business focused on solving complex engineering problems for national-priority missions in areas such as missile defense hypersonics space and intelligence. KODA is a seven-time winner of Huntsvilles Best Places to Work Award certified as a Great Place to Work and a Best Place for Working Parents. We prioritize our people customer mission success and community service through KODA Cares. We offer competitive compensation excellent benefits and opportunities for professional growth.

Position Overview:

KODA is seeking a Vice President to lead its Space and Missile Defense Business Unit (BU) in Huntsville AL. This is a hands-on leadership position requiring direct engagement in and responsibility for business unit operations financial performance customer satisfaction employee development and retention and business growth. The BU executive may also provide direct customer support while maintaining accountability for overall business unit performance.

Key Responsibilities:

Leadership: Foster KODAs people-first culture through active employee engagement mentoring and professional development. Develop emerging leaders promote accountability and high performance and manage employee performance retention and personnel matters in collaboration with team leaders and corporate support functions.

Operations: Maintain regular customer engagement and ensure customer satisfaction. Manage contract performance revenue profitability utilization and expenses. Coordinate contract actions. Own workforce plans staffing priorities requisitions and candidate selection. Develop budgets and forecasts covering funded and unfunded backlog anticipated new business and award timing. Lead pricing strategy for existing work labor category planning and task order proposal strategy in coordination with corporate support functions.

Business Development: Partner with corporate Business Development to develop and execute BU growth strategies. Identify and qualify opportunities cultivate customer and industry relationships and maintain an actionable opportunity pipeline. Lead or actively support capture activities teaming and pursuit decisions. Identify emerging customer requirements and pursue opportunities to expand KODAs support. Coordinate BU contributions to proposals white papers and requests for information.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 15 years of progressively responsible experience supporting space missile defense or related government missions including demonstrated technical credibility leadership experience and results supporting national security or civil space customers.
• Demonstrated commitment to a people-first culture integrity customer mission success and professional excellence consistent with KODAs values.
• Proven leadership experience including motivating teams developing employees and emerging leaders managing performance and accountability.
• Experience managing revenue profitability budgets forecasts staffing and utilization across government prime contracts or subcontracts.
• Demonstrated ability to develop growth strategies build opportunity pipelines and lead or support capture and proposal teams.
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to personally execute operational financial staffing customer engagement and business development responsibilities in a dynamic small-business environment.
• Strong customer engagement communication and judgment including the ability to brief senior leaders resolve conflicts and manage competing priorities.
• Bachelors degree in engineering science or a related field or equivalent relevant military government or industry experience.
• Active Secret Clearance

Desired Qualifications

• Demonstrated success leading a business unit portfolio or multiple government programs with accountability for customer outcomes people and financial performance.
• Experience supporting space and missile defense organizations such as MDA USASMDC USSPACECOM U.S Space Force NASA U.S. Army AvMC and PAE Fires.
• Established relationships with space and missile defense customers prime contractors and potential teaming partners.
• Experience leading both prime and subcontract portfolios expanding existing customer work and winning new business.

Other: On-Site Full-Time in Huntsville AL.

Position Close Date: November 6 2026.

KODA Technologies Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex gender identity sexual orientation pregnancy status as a parent national origin disability (physical or mental) family medical history or genetic information political affiliation military service or other non-merit based factors. If you are unable to complete this application due to a disability contact to ask for an accommodation or an alternative application process.

Required Experience:

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