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Senior Director, Business Development USG Federal

Muon Space· Business Development
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Hybrid (Northern VA)$185k - $210kPosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Director of Business Development leading Muon Space’s USG Federal portfolio (Intelligence Community and DoD/War) in Northern Virginia, overseeing the BD team, capture efforts, proposals, and customer engagement to win new contracts.

Responsibilities

  • Drive near term and long term growth for Muon Space in the USG Federal market.
  • Lead and manage the Federal BD team.
  • Develop multi-year capture strategy for the portfolio.
  • Lead customer engagement, pipeline development and capture efforts.
  • Provide thought leadership in development and execution of strategy for target organizations.
  • Identify new opportunities and lead capture across pipeline stages.
  • Create, maintain and implement customer engagement plans.
  • Lead proposals and RFI responses; develop win themes, engage with engineering on technical solutions, develop Price to Win, write content, and review content before submission.
  • Leverage Muon Space’s tools and processes to track and manage opportunities.
  • Collaborate with other BD personnel and engineering on opportunities.
  • Provide input from Customers into the product technology roadmap.
  • Work with Legal and Finance on opportunities.
  • All other duties as assigned

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of professional experience in aerospace/ defense with 8+ years in Business Development.
  • Able to build a plan and execute with clear ownership and minimal oversight.
  • Experience working with business development on USG captures and supporting and/or leading proposals.
  • Demonstrated success capturing space business within the IC.
  • Continuous learner that is not afraid to lead through uncertainty, take chances, and learn from mistakes.
  • Consistently takes initiative and champions causes that need to be addressed.
  • Demonstrated emotional intelligence to interact with staff, colleagues, cross-functional teams, and customers.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Comfortable working in a dynamic and fast-paced development environment.
  • Able to travel up to 25% of time.
  • Active TS clearance.

Skills

Required:Experience in USG captures and leading proposalsCapture management

Benefits

  • equity compensation
  • medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401k retirement plan
  • short & long term disability and life insurance
  • three weeks paid vacation for new employees
  • 12 paid holidays
  • unlimited sick time
  • paid parental leave
Last updated Sep 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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