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Shield AI

Robot type
Drone · Defense
Location
District of ColumbiaUSA
Job type
Commercial Operations
Posted
Sep 24, 2026
Salary
$190,000–$290,000 a year
Full-time

Director, International Growth Campaign Leader (R5851)

Job description

The Director, International Growth Campaign Leader leads the internal operating system behind Shield AI international X-BAT pursuits. Regional, country and opportunity-focused Go-To-Market (GTM) leaders own their customers, their regional and in-country strategies, and their individual captures. This role owns the layer above them: the single, integrated view across regions, and the mechanisms that turn that view into faster decisions, earlier risk mitigation, and better-supported GTM leads.

Each GTM lead sees their own campaign clearly. No one else sees the whole international board. This role does. It connects individual pursuits to shared dependencies — U.S.

Job responsibilities

  • Own the global view. Build and maintain the integrated international campaign picture across all X-BAT regional and country pursuits: strategy status, critical path, milestones, dependencies, decision points, and…
  • Enable the GTM leads. Give regional and country GTM leads the templates, playbooks, data, competitive inputs, cost and schedule inputs, and cross-functional access they need to build and execute their capture plan.
  • Synchronize across company functions. Ensure engineering, product, export, legal, contracts, finance, government relations, and business operations have common understanding of a single prioritized international…
  • Map the U.S. Government and approval critical path. Maintain the enterprise view of FMS, DCS, and hybrid pathway dependencies — foreign disclosure, exportability, releasability, technology security, and interagency…
  • Surface conflicts between campaigns. Identify where two or more regional campaigns compete for the same aircraft, test window, engineering effort, approval bandwidth, or indirect dollar, and bring executive leadership…
  • Drive executive decision quality. Run the operating cadence — campaign reviews, gate reviews, risk registers, action tracking, and executive dashboards — so leadership receives timely, accurate, decision-ready…
  • Scale the discipline. Capture lessons learned across international efforts and convert them into repeatable tools, templates, metrics, and playbooks so each new campaign starts further ahead than the last.
  • Support a culture of accountability, urgency, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Job requirements

  • 12+ years in international B2G capture management, program management, strategic operations, business operations, technical program management, or a comparable cross-functional leadership role.
  • Demonstrated success leading highly complex initiatives with multiple interdependent workstreams across engineering, business development, operations, finance, and executive leadership.
  • Working knowledge of international defense pursuit dependencies, including FMS, DCS, or hybrid acquisition pathways and the approval, disclosure, and exportability sequencing that governs them.
  • Proven ability to influence without direct authority and to drive accountability across functions and geographies.
  • Strong executive communication: leadership briefings, dashboards, metrics, and decision-support materials that lead to decisions rather than discussion.
  • Deep operational rigor in integrated schedules, critical path, milestones, action tracking, dependency management, and risk mitigation.
  • Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-changing environments with competing priorities across multiple time zones.
  • A service orientation toward the functional roles this position supports, and the judgment to know when to escalate versus resolve quietly.

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