Director, International Growth Campaign Leader (R5851)

Washington, D.C. · USD 190,000-290,000 / year · 12+ years experience · Onsite · Posted Sep 24, 2026

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Shield AI is seeking a Director, International Growth Campaign Leader (R5851) based in Washington, D.C.
This role owns the integrated international campaign picture across all X-BAT regional and country pursuits, ensuring alignment in strategy status, milestones, dependencies, and campaign health.

Build and maintain the integrated international campaign picture across all X-BAT regional and country pursuits.
Enable regional and country GTM leads with templates, playbooks, data, competitive inputs, cost and schedule inputs, and cross-functional access.
Synchronize across company functions to ensure a single prioritized international campaign plan.
Maintain the enterprise view of FMS, DCS, and hybrid pathway dependencies and translate them into country-level timeline implications.
Surface conflicts between campaigns where regional campaigns compete for the same resources, test windows, or engineering effort.
Run the operating cadence including campaign reviews, gate reviews, risk registers, action tracking, and executive dashboards.
Steward indirect investment by tracking campaign investment, indirect spend, and resource planning with Finance and Business Operations.
Capture lessons learned across international efforts and convert them into repeatable tools, templates, metrics, and playbooks.

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 including leadership briefings, dashboards, metrics, and decision-support materials.
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.
Demonstrated alignment with Shield AI core values: Do What Honor Dictates, Live as a Servant Leader, Pursue Excellence.
Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required.
Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

Experience supporting Department of War, aerospace, autonomy, robotics, aviation, or defense-technology organizations.
Experience within B2G business development, capture, proposal operations, strategic planning, or growth organizations running multiple concurrent international pursuits.
Familiarity with U.S. Government international engagement mechanisms such as foreign disclosure processes, security cooperation planning, embassy and country team coordination, or interagency advocacy.
Experience building executive dashboards, KPIs, operational scorecards, or portfolio health metrics.
Experience supporting executive staff, chief-of-staff organizations, Strategy and Operations teams, or enterprise PMOs.
Experience with tools such as Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, Confluence, or monday.com.
MBA or advanced degree.
PMP, Agile, or Lean Six Sigma certification.