Head of Growth

Aslan

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About The Position

Aslan builds autonomous agents to counter modern threats. In 12 months, the company has gone from founding to live operational tasking and pilots across multiple national security and law enforcement partners. They have raised $20M to date from prominent venture capital firms. This role is crucial for taking Aslan from a proven capability to durable, programmed funding, transforming operational traction into validated requirements, execution-year dollars, and recurring lines in the out-years. The work is described as mechanical, focusing on understanding and executing the processes required for validation, sole-source awards, and funding movement within fiscal years. The Head of Growth will work with three customer sets: the Department of War (special operations, low-intensity conflict, counternarcotics, global threats, intelligence, security oversight, command intelligence, targeting, and irregular warfare staffs), the Intelligence Community (directorates with collection and counterintelligence missions), and Federal law enforcement (investigative components working transnational criminal organizations and counterintelligence). Proficiency in at least one of these areas is required, with the ability to learn the others.

Requirements

• Personally taken at least one capability from no requirement, no vehicle, and no line item to on-contract, then expansion, then a programmed out-year line. Not supported it. Ran it.
• Can name the vehicle, the account, the appropriation, and the fiscal year for each step.
• Spent time in government and then carried that fluency into industry, or did the whole thing from the industry side at a company whose product had no program of record when you arrived and has one now.
• Proactively identifies and clears obstacles in government processes.

Nice To Haves

• Active or recent S, TS, or TS/SCI clearance (sponsorship available).
• Program office experience owning acquisition milestones and funding lines in a software, intelligence, or special programs portfolio.
• Familiarity programming intelligence-flagged capabilities (e.g., MIP, MFP-11).
• Experience at an early-stage defense or national security company.

Responsibilities

• Drive operational results into validated requirements through the appropriate requirements and resourcing processes.
• Identify and sequence the funding mechanics for each effort: execution-year money and reprogramming to stand up and expand pilots, unfunded requirement placement to signal demand above the request, and the programming actions that turn one-time money into a recurring line.
• Build and own the full artifact chain: programming inputs (POM/IPL and equivalents), unfunded requirement justifications, reprogramming packages, requirement documentation, and out-year/FYDP inclusion.
• Map the decision terrain and engage the specific offices and people across programs, commands, and department components who validate requirements and control funding.
• Select and exploit the acquisition pathways and transition authorities that compress the timeline from identification of need to resolution of problem, with specific familiarity in rapid-fielding and prototype pathways (e.g., OTAs, CRADAs, and urgent need mechanisms).
• Use congressional touchpoints where they reinforce the internal programming case, sequenced to the mark calendar.
• Translate all of it into a single dated transition roadmap and serve as the company's internal authority on resourcing and acquisition mechanics.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed