Remote Position
[Remote] Vice President/Director, Business Development - Antenna Technologies
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Communications & Power Industries (CPI) is hiring an executive to lead business development and strategic growth across its Antenna Technologies businesses. The role defines capture and go-to-market strategies, expands market share across defense, space, and scientific programs, and coordinates customer engagement with engineering, operations, and other teams.
Responsibilities
- Own and execute the business development and go-to-market strategy for the Antenna Technologies product lines supporting defense, space, and scientific sectors
- Develop and execute multi-year capture strategies with prime integrators, U.S. Government customers, Commercial end users and international allies
- Align go-to-market strategy with R&D priorities and next-generation power platform roadmaps
- Identify adjacent market opportunities for existing product platforms and influence R&D direction through customer input
- Engage directly with senior customer decision-makers, primes, integrators, and system architects to secure long-term positions on programs of record
- Align business development initiatives with engineering, supply chain, and production capacity across multiple U.S. and international sites
- Coordinate closely with operations and engineering to ensure proposal feasibility, production readiness, and supply-chain alignment
- Influence pricing, value proposition articulation, and trade-study inputs on active bids and new pursuits
Skills
- 15+ years of experience in business development, strategic capture, or P&L leadership in aerospace, defense, or adjacent technologies
- Demonstrated success growing a business focused on antenna systems, RF/microwave electronics, or secure communications hardware
- Deep understanding of customer needs in radar, EW, ISR, and C4ISR applications
- Familiarity with phased-array, dish, reflector, and conformal antenna technologies
- Ability to partner effectively with engineers, program managers, and operational leaders
- Fluent in U.S. defense acquisition
- ITAR/EAR aware
- Clearance-eligible (Secret required)
- Bachelor's degree required
- Must be a U.S. Citizen
- TS preferred
- Engineering or physics background preferred
- MBA or advanced degree is a plus
Benefits
- Health and wellness programs
- Career development
- Generous retirement savings plan with company match
- Remote work
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