Responsibilities

• Business Unit Partnership
• - Build deep, trusted relationships with Business Unit leadership, program managers, capture leads, and engineering.
• - Partner with product managers as their marketing counterpart on roadmap milestones, launch readiness, claims substantiation, and customer evidence / operational proof.
• - Embed in the business unit's operational cadence: program reviews, capture gate reviews, and planning rhythms setting Marketing priorities from this perspective

Requirements

• 12+ years total post-military or civilian work experience
• 8+ years in product marketing with meaningful time in both enterprise software or hardware-software product marketing and defense, aerospace, or dual-use technology.
• Demonstrated ownership of a product line or portfolio at $100M+ revenue scale.
• Fluency in DoD acquisition dynamics: program of record lifecycles, POM cycles, FMS/DCS mechanics.
• Demonstrable positioning craft: you can show a positioning document, launch plan, campaign plan, and enablement asset you built that moved a measurable number.
• Ability to operate within export control, classification, and public-release constraints without diluting message strength.
• Self-directed operator: you run a portfolio with executive-level accountability and minimal day-to-day direction.
• Proven ability to earn the trust of technical and program stakeholders and operate inside a business unit's rhythm, functioning as a partner to the business rather than a service function.
• Commutable distance from AV Simi Valley Campus
• U.S. Citizenship Required.

Preferred

• Direct experience marketing loitering munitions, one-way attack, or EW products.
• Prior military service or program office exposure.
• Active or recent Secret clearance, or ability to obtain one.
• Experience competing in the modern defense technology landscape against established primes and emerging entrants.

Benefits

• Benefits : AV offers an excellent benefits package including medical, dental vision, 401K with company matching, a 9/80 work schedule and a paid holiday shutdown.