Executive Vice President, Integrated Air and Missile Defense

Astrion•Huntsville, AL

13h•Onsite

About The Position

Astrion is hiring an Executive Vice President to lead its Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) mission area and drive transformative growth. The role will expand a business rooted in trusted technical advice into one that also wins, fields, and sustains solutions. The executive will build an organization that attracts and develops exceptional people and delivers capabilities that help the United States and its allies detect threats earlier, decide faster, and defeat them affordably. The executive will build on Astrion’s expertise in threat modeling, modeling and simulation, systems engineering, integration, acquisition, and test and evaluation. The role will strengthen differentiated services and turn mission knowledge into software and technology solutions customers can acquire, field, scale, and sustain, including contributions to Golden Dome and other homeland, regional, and allied defense priorities. As the single accountable executive for the mission area, this leader will own strategy, customer relationships, program execution, financial performance, and talent. The role has responsibility and authority to set priorities, allocate resources, select pursuits, build the leadership team, and deliver portfolio growth. It will also connect sensors, command and control, battle management, and weapons across systems, platforms, organizations, and domains, identifying and closing capability gaps.

Requirements

Executive leadership experience in 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, with 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 ability to obtain and maintain the security clearance and access required for the role.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

Set mission-area strategy by understanding customer challenges, foreign threats, competitive solutions, and capability gaps; choose where Astrion should compete and invest.
Determine solutions to address threats across the threat spectrum, from left of launch through boost, midcourse, and terminal phases.
Build trust with senior customers across MDA, the Services, Combatant Commands, the Joint Staff, and acquisition organizations; shape requirements, funding, and acquisition pathways.
Expand existing programs and personally lead consequential competitive captures.
Deliver current program commitments by holding program managers and technical leaders accountable for quality, schedule, cost, and customer outcomes.
Oversee staffing, funding, contract scope, subcontractors, and contractual, security, and cybersecurity obligations; identify risks early and make timely decisions.
Own financial results, including revenue, margin, adjusted EBITDA, cash, and working capital; monitor program economics, improve productivity, address weak economics, and invest in profitable growth.
Work with Astrion Park, the Chief Engineer, and technology leaders to transition capabilities from demonstration into operational use and develop repeatable offerings with credible acquisition, deployment, and sustainment paths.
Manage organizational conflicts of interest as advisory expertise informs solution development.
Recruit, develop, and retain leaders and critical talent; strengthen capture, solution architecture, engineering, and program leadership; address underperformance and prepare successors.
Set clear authority and accountability across the team.
Coordinate IAMD opportunities with Astrion’s space, autonomous warfare, and layered defense capabilities; work with enterprise growth and product leaders on investments and solutions.
Build partnerships that improve customer outcomes and competitive position.