Business Development Manager

Redhorse Corporation

$150K — $250K *
Aerospace & Defense
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Active TS/SCI clearance required
  • 10+ years in federal growth, capture, or program delivery
  • Demonstrated pipeline development in cyber/defense
  • Experience leading complex programs and missions
  • Strong grasp of cloud, data, AI modernization priorities
  • Leadership across cross-functional teams with accountability

Responsibilities

  • Own and execute growth strategy for cyber and special operations accounts
  • Expand and manage high-quality pipeline across mission portfolios
  • Lead capture efforts, focusing on solution shaping and proposal development
  • Enhance pursuit discipline, win themes, and customer alignment
  • Position Redhorse as a trusted modernization partner
  • Identify joint opportunities with strategic partners
  • Support thought leadership and strategic presentations for market engagement

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits programs
  • Eligibility for performance or incentive compensation
  • Opportunity for professional development and training
  • Flexibility in adapting roles to meet organizational needs
  • Engagement with cutting-edge technologies in a dynamic environment
Full Job Description
About the Role

Redhorse is seeking a growth-focused leader to drive business development, capture strategy, and mission modernization growth across the Cyber and Defense Ecosystems. This role is ideal for an operator-minded strategist who has built trusted customer relationships through delivery, understands mission needs deeply, and can translate those needs into winnable pursuits and scalable solutions.

You will own pipeline expansion and capture execution across priority accounts-while partnering with delivery teams to ensure Redhorse solutions are credible, differentiated, and built for real-world mission outcomes.

What You'll Do

Lead Growth Across Cyber and Defense Priority Accounts

Own and execute growth strategy and capture planning across cyber and special operations customers by expanding and managing a high-quality pipeline spanning mission, cyber, analytics, and modernization portfolios, while building strong customer relationships and shaping opportunities from early engagement through contract award.

Drive Capture Discipline and Win Execution

Lead capture efforts encompassing solution shaping, competitive positioning, teaming strategy, and proposal development, while improving pursuit discipline, win themes, and customer alignment across priority opportunities, and partnering closely with technical and delivery leaders to build winning solutions and executable staffing plans.

Accelerate Mission Modernization Solutions

Help position Redhorse as a trusted modernization partner across cloud and infrastructure modernization, data platforms and integration, AI/ML and advanced analytics, and mission analytics and operational decision support, while bringing mission credibility and delivery insight to ensure solutions reflect operational reality and customer urgency.

Strengthen Partnerships and Channel-Led Growth

Build and expand strategic relationships across the federal technology ecosystem by identifying joint opportunities with partners, including systems integrators, platform providers, and service partners, and creating repeatable partner-led motions that drive pipeline and accelerate growth.

Represent Redhorse in the Market

Support thought leadership, customer engagement, and strategic presentations while serving as a trusted external voice for Redhorse's modernization capabilities and mission outcomes.

Experience/Clearance

  • Active clearance (TS/SCI)
  • 10+ years of experience in federal growth, capture, account leadership, and/or mission program delivery
  • Proven success developing pipeline and winning new business in cyber and/or defense environments
  • Experience leading complex programs or portfolios and translating mission needs into scalable solutions
  • Strong understanding of modernization priorities across cloud/data/AI and mission analytics
  • Ability to lead across cross-functional teams (capture, delivery, technical leadership, partners) with urgency and accountability


$150,000 - $250,000 a year

The salary range provided for this position represents the anticipated base salary for successful candidates. Actual compensation will be determined based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, education, certifications, skills, security clearance level, geographic location, market conditions, and internal equity. In addition to base salary, eligible employees may participate in Redhorse's comprehensive benefits programs and may be eligible for performance-based or other incentive compensation, where applicable.

Redhorse Corporation shall, in its discretion, modify or adjust the position to meet Redhorse's changing needs. This job description is not a contract and may be adjusted as deemed appropriate in Redhorse's sole discretion.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

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