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In person, Rosslyn office.\nRole Type: Full-Time Employee\nReports To: Head of Growth, or the CEO directly depending on experience\nTravel: Up to 25%\nClearance: Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance\nAbout the Client\nWe're on a mission to ensure warfighters are prepared for every challenge they face. We are committed to assembling a world-class team of exceptional problem solvers, combining expert engineering talent with deep experience in National Security.\nWe build AI for the most important problem in defense: making sure the force is ready to fight. Our software is deployed and in use with DoD partners today. The office is in Rosslyn.\nAbout the Role\nWe're looking for someone to turn our wins into programs that last. Early traction in defense is fragile: pilots end, Phase IIs expire, and good software falls into the valley of death because nobody built the transition path.\nThis role owns that path. You'll take existing customers and contracts and convert them into budgeted, recurring, defensible program lines, working the POM cycle, transition agreements, and the program office relationships that make us permanent.\nResponsibilities\nTransition Ownership. Own Phase II to Phase III transitions and pilot to program conversions. Build the sponsor, requirement, and funding case for each one and drive it to a signed vehicle.\nProgram Insertion. Map our capability against programs of record and identify where it belongs. Build relationships with PEOs, PMs, and requirements owners to get it there.\nFunding Strategy. Work the budget cycle. Track POM inputs, unfunded requirements lists, congressional adds, APFIT, and reprogramming actions, and position us against real money on a real timeline.\nAccount Expansion. Grow existing accounts. Keep current customers on contract, expand scope and option years, and turn one user into an enterprise footprint.\nTeaming and Partnerships. Build relationships with primes, integrators, FFRDCs, and UARCs where a teaming path is faster than a direct one.\nRequirements\nDirect experience moving a technology from prototype or SBIR into a funded program of record, and the ability to walk through how it actually happened.\nDeep working knowledge of PPBE, the POM cycle, and how requirements and money move inside DoD.\nRelationships with program offices, PEOs, or acquisition leadership that you can bring to bear.\nA background in defense technology, at a company that has had real program success. Experience across multiple services is ideal; depth in one service, Army, Air Force, Navy, or Space Force, with the comfort to flex into the others, works too.\nPatience for long cycles paired with the discipline to show measurable progress every quarter.\nStrong writing skills. 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