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Account Executive – Space
Location
United States
Posted
131 days ago
Salary
$145K - $185K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Account Executive – Space
Defense Unicorns
• Drive new Mission Hero acquisition across the Space ecosystem, ensuring alignment with Defense Unicorn’s strategic growth objectives and solution capabilities. • Develop and execute capture plans, win strategies, and competitive positioning to secure new business. • Engage early with government stakeholders, primes, and ecosystem partners to shape opportunities ahead of solicitation. • Understand customer pain points, acquisition timelines, and funding paths across multiple branches of the DoD. • Identify and lead teaming arrangements that enhance technical capabilities, socio-economic positioning, or incumbent advantage. • Translate technical capabilities—such as the Unicorn Delivery Service (UDS), cATO acceleration, and edge deployments—into persuasive win themes. • Support RFI/RFP responses with market intelligence, SWOT analysis, and pricing strategy input. • Prepare regular reports on business development activities, track key performance indicators (KPIs), and analyze the effectiveness of various strategies. Use data-driven insights to refine approaches and achieve better results. • Represent the company at industry and government events to raise visibility and gather market intelligence.
Job Requirements
- Proven ability to win complex technical pursuits through the full capture lifecycle.
- Working knowledge of Space Force acquisition processes (e.g., FAR-based contracts, OTAs, SBIR, IDIQ).
- Excellent communication, strategic thinking, and leadership skills across technical and executive audiences.
- Experience coordinating multi-disciplinary teams to deliver successful proposals.
- Familiarity with software factory environments, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, or tactical edge deployments is a strong plus.
- Deep Cyber operational experience.
Benefits
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- Premiums are 100% Company Paid
- Health Reimbursement Account
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- 401k Retirement Plan
- Company Stock Options
- Home Office Budget
- Unlimited paid time off, with a mandatory 10 days off on top of 11 federal government holidays, week of Thanksgiving, last two weeks of December (including New Year’s Day)
- Paid Parental Leave
- Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions
- Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)
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