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Vice President of Strategy and Business Development - Stratagem - Make a Lasting Impact

Vice President of Strategy and Business Development

Description

This position is for a Strategy & Business Development (S&BD) Vice President in either King of Prussia, PA, Aurora Colorado with relocation provided if necessary. You will be responsible for developing and executing a plan to meet Stratagem’s growth goals and helping to define Stratagem’s overall company strategy. You will work closely with Stratagem’s Executive Team who will give you the autonomy to meet our growth objectives. You will have the resources and support needed to meet our growth targets, including our talented engineering team and compelling software baselines and technologies.


Company Overview 

At Stratagem, we create advanced software solutions to support critical aspects of national security. We are solving highly complex problems with a team of fun, uniquely talented engineers that deliver capabilities to make a lasting impact


Stratagem is a high-end software technology company that delivers operational solutions and performs advanced R&D for the DoD and Intelligence Community. We believe in a culture of innovation, fun, empowerment, and family. We want you to learn new skills so you can become more fulfilled in both your personal and professional life.
 

Stratagem is hiring exceptional individuals to join our growing team. We look for candidates who are thoughtful and team-oriented with excellent problem-solving skills, a high level of creativity, and the ability to quickly learn new technologies. We also seek out individuals that are clear communicators and support their teammates with a sense of positivity and open-mindedness.  Our environment is designed to being empowering and enable people to be their best selves.
 

Salary Information

The annual salary range for this role is $175,000 – $250,000; however, Stratagem considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, education/training, and key skills. 


** US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED ** 

** TS – SSBI REQUIRED** 

Position Details
Employment Type
Location
Aurora, CO
King of Prussia, PA
Salary Range
$175,000-$250,000
Requirements

Our ideal candidate is entrepreneurial, driven, and mission focused. We are looking for someone who understands our customers’ missions and needs and can work with a group of talented engineers to create compelling solutions for these needs. This person has a proven track record of assembling partnerships that lead to winning captures. Our ideal candidate is very comfortable developing solutions using leading-edge software and AI-based technology to apply against ground-based and space-based missions. You are also more comfortable in smaller and fast-paced organizations and welcome the opportunity to be entrepreneurial and build an S&BD organization that maximizes growth. Finally, you are kind, look out for your team, and are a great communicator. 


As a Strategy & Business Director your responsibilities include: 

  • Defining and building the company’s growth strategy and working with the executive team to define and build the overall company strategy 
  • Creating and managing business pipelines that meet company objectives 
  • Managing a high-throughput proposal organization 
  • Performing capture management on highly strategic pursuits, while providing strategic direction on other ongoing captures 
  • Building high-PWin team  
  • Helping to articulate our customer’s big problems to our technology organization and influencing our research and development so it is relevant to our customer’s problems 

Required Skills 

  • U.S Citizen with a TS/SCI clearance with SSBI 
  • Proven ability to execute and win small (under $2M), medium(~$15M), and larger (~$50M) captures 
  • Proven ability to build business pipelines that meet company growth objectives 
  • Ability to honestly assess internal capabilities and the competitive landscape to make recommendations on when to pursue and opportunity and how to team 
  • Ability to build high PWin teams 
  • Organizational skills to manage a high-throughput S&BD organization that typically submits >25 proposals a year and regularly has ongoing concurrent proposals 
  • Ability to both participate in and help coach engineers in orals/pitch presentations to a customer 
  • Position will require 20% travel 

Desired Skills (bonus points)

  • Understanding and knowledge about the ground solutions provided by the NRO, Space Force, and AFRL  
  • Experience supporting pursuits that leverage create cutting edge software and AI-based solutions to solve complex IC and DoD problems 
  • Ability to define company strategy and work with each of the company’s organizations to create and execute 1/3/5-year strategies that align to the overall company strategy  
  • Understanding and knowledge about the ground and onboard solutions provided by any of the following: Space Development Agency, Army Futures, NGA, DARPA 
  • Experience with winning down-select competitions  

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or other legally protected status. 

Company Overview

At Stratagem, we create advanced software solutions to support critical aspects of national security. We are solving highly complex problems with a team of fun, uniquely talented engineers that deliver capabilities to make a lasting impact.

Stratagem is a small, high-end software technology company that delivers operational solutions and performs advanced R&D for the DoD and Intelligence Community. We believe in a culture of innovation, fun, empowerment, and family. We want you to learn new skills so you can become more fulfilled in both your personal and professional life. 

Stratagem is hiring exceptional individuals to join our growing team. We look for candidates that are thoughtful and team-oriented with excellent problem-solving skills, a high level of creativity, and the ability to quickly learn new technologies. We also seek out individuals that are clear communicators and support their teammates with a sense of positivity and open-mindedness.