Director, Space & Missile Growth

NextGen Federal Systems (NextGen) is seeking a Director, Space & Missile Growth to support strategic customer engagement, business development, capture leadership, opportunity shaping, and technical solution development across the national security space and missile defense community. This highly visible role is designed for a recognized leader who possesses deep mission understanding, technical credibility, and established relationships throughout the Department of War, United States Space Force, Air Force, Missile Defense Agency, Space Systems Command, Space Development Agency, National Reconnaissance Office, Intelligence Community, and related organizations. The successful candidate will serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, capture teams, proposal teams, program managers, and government customers. While the primary focus of the position is supporting company growth through customer engagement, opportunity development, and capture activities, the individual will also provide senior-level technical advisory support on customer programs and strategic initiative.  

Strategic Impact

· Help expand NextGen’s presence within the national security space and missile defense community.

· Strengthen strategic customer relationships across government, military, intelligence, and industry organizations.

· Support the pursuit and capture of high-value contracts and strategic opportunities.

· Increase visibility of NextGen capabilities across key mission areas and customer organizations.

· Provide trusted technical leadership that contributes to both customer success and corporate growth.

Key Responsibilities

· Develop and maintain trusted relationships across the national security space, missile defense, aerospace, and intelligence communities.

· Engage with government stakeholders to understand evolving mission requirements, acquisition priorities, and emerging opportunities.

· Represent NextGen at customer meetings, industry conferences, technical exchanges, industry days, and strategic forums.

· Identify, qualify, and help shape opportunities aligned with corporate growth objectives.

· Support account planning, pipeline development, and long-range growth strategies.

· Provide customer and market insight to help guide corporate investment and positioning decisions.

· Support capture teams in developing customer-focused solutions and winning strategies.

· Lead or support proposal development efforts, technical solutioning, color team reviews, and executive presentations.

· Assist in development of discriminators, technical approaches, teaming strategies, and partnership opportunities.

· Provide senior-level subject matter expertise across space systems, missile defense systems, systems engineering, acquisition programs, modeling and simulation, test and evaluation, mission engineering, and operational concepts.

· Support customer programs through technical advisory services, assessments, strategic consulting, and select contract execution activities.

· Mentor technical staff, business development personnel, capture managers, and future leaders across the company.

· Provide executive leadership with assessments of market trends, customer priorities, competitive landscapes, and emerging technologies.

Required Qualifications

· Active Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance with SAP eligibility at time of hire.

· 15+ years of experience supporting national security space, missile defense, aerospace, intelligence, or related Department of War (DoW) programs.

· Demonstrated experience within organizations such as the United States Space Force, Air Force, Missile Defense Agency, Space Systems Command, Space Development Agency, National Reconnaissance Office, Intelligence Community, AFRL, Combatant Commands, or related organizations.

· Experience serving in technical leadership, acquisition, operations, engineering, program management, or advisory positions.

· Proven ability to engage senior government, military, and industry stakeholders.

· Experience supporting customer engagement, opportunity development, business development, capture activities, strategic planning, or proposal development.

· Strong understanding of defense acquisition processes, space architectures, missile defense systems, command and control, and/or mission engineering principles.

· Excellent briefing, communication, and relationship-building skills.

Education:

· Bachelor’s degree in related technical discipline.

· Master’s degree preferred.

Desired Qualifications

· Former senior military officer, senior enlisted leader, GS-15/equivalent government civilian, program manager, chief engineer, technical director, division chief, or comparable industry leader.

· Experience serving in senior operational, acquisition, technical, engineering, intelligence, or mission leadership roles.

· Graduate of USAF Weapons School – 328th Weapons Squadron (Space Superiority WIC)

· Experience supporting SSC, SDA, Space RCO, MDA, AFRL, NRO, US Space Force Combat Forces Command (CFC), STARCOM, or other operational space organizations.

· Existing professional relationships across the national security space, missile defense, and intelligence communities.

· Experience supporting classified programs, special access programs, strategic pursuits, captures, and proposal development.

· Understanding of Space Domain Awareness, Missile Warning and Tracking, Satellite Systems, Space Control, Modeling and Simulation, Digital Engineering, and/or Hypersonic Mission Areas.

Ideal Candidate:

· Recognized and respected member of the national security space community.

· Possesses the technical credibility, operational experience, and professional relationships necessary to support customer missions while helping expand NextGen's presence across the space and missile enterprise.

· Comfortable operating across executive leadership, customer engagement, proposal development, technical advisory, and growth-focused activities.

· Able to translate customer challenges into actionable business opportunities and technical solutions.

Why Join Nextgen:

· Play a key role in shaping the future growth of NextGen within the national security space market.

· Influence strategic pursuits and customer relationships across critical defense missions.

· Contribute both technically and strategically to high-impact programs and opportunities.

· Collaborate directly with company leadership to help define future market direction and growth priorities.

About NextGen:

NextGen Federal Systems is an innovative technology and professional services provider specializing in advanced software solutions and comprehensive mission and business support services. We work in close collaboration with our customers to truly understand their business and mission goals. Our approach is to design, build, implement, and manage solutions that measurably improve our client’s organizational performance. We have established and foster a corporate culture where we:

• Treat employees with fairness and respect regardless of their position, sexual identity, race, or tenure.
• Communicate the importance of our mission and our employees’ contributions to it, ensuring they understand how their job role contributes to the greater good.
• Openly promote and communicate our ideas for change and adaptability.
• Strive to achieve results as an organization.
• Hold employees accountable to their commitments and provide incentives that encourage positive and productive behaviors.
• Value the talents and contributions of our employees as the key factor for our success.
• Create an environment where people can engage at all levels.
• Encourage people to take risks and allow them to make mistakes.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.

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