AeroVironment

EW Product Sales Director

AeroVironment$152K — $243K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
  • 7 years in business development within the defense/intelligence sector
  • Proven track record in the Electronic Warfare (EW) domain
  • Ability to understand customer needs and capabilities
  • Strong grasp of SIGINT, EW, and Cyber Operations
  • Willing to travel up to 50% domestically and internationally

Responsibilities

  • Ensure compliance with regulations across all proffered offerings
  • Develop innovative business models leveraging industry trends
  • Address customer challenges in competitive markets
  • Validate business ideas and track milestones for new opportunities
  • Manage and monitor program budgets effectively
  • Analyze complex issues that influence strategic decisions
  • Other assigned duties as necessary

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401K with company matching
  • 9/80 work schedule for enhanced work-life balance
  • Paid holiday shutdown
Full Job Description

Worker Type

Regular


Job Description

Summary

The EW Product Sales Director drives revenue growth by managing existing customer relationships and developing new customer segments within the Electronic Warfare market. This role identifies customer requirements and capability gaps, delivers capability briefings, and coordinates meetings to position EW solutions effectively. It requires active engagement across industry events—including conferences, trade shows, customer exercises—to expand market presence and pipeline. Success is measured by contribution to annual AOP targets and overall team performance.


Position Responsibilities

  • Ensures regulatory compliance of all offerings.
  • Focuses on new business models that leverage enabling trends
  • Solves customer problems in larger potential markets and rapidly assemble internal and external capabilities required to achieve growth in a very competitive marketplace.
  • Validates ideas and achieve milestones in the development and execution of new business opportunities.
  • Creates and tracks office and program budgets.
  • Works on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles
  • Other duties as assigned


Basic Qualifications (Required Skills & Experience)

  • Bachelor's Degree in a related field of study is required or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
  • 7 years of demonstrated experience in business development activities or related government/defense and/or intelligence industry experience
  • Experience understanding customer requirements and capability gaps
  • Experience driving revenue in the EW sector and contributing to meeting yearly AOP objectives
  • Good understanding of SIGINT, EW, and Offensive Cyber Operations (OCO) mission sets and CONOPs across land, air, and maritime platforms.'
  • Ability to travel, both domestically and internationally, up to 50% of the time

Other Qualifications & Desired Competencies

  • Top Secret Clearance Required. SCI preferred.
  • General understanding of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, IOT, and L-Band SatComm protocols preferred
  • Demonstrates strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Performs well in a rapidly growing organization with rapidly changing requirements and sales targets
  • Highly self-motivated with strong problem solving and multi-tasking skills
  • Uses vision to think beyond the immediate situation, explore multiple potential paths, and adapt decision-making style based on the situational circumstances
  • Inspires, motivates, and empowers people to deliver organizational goals, while also delivering value back to employees
  • Brings organizational values to life using personality, uniqueness and the creation of a shared vision
  • Champions the process of change and promotes a culture of quick adaptation while helping others deal with the effects of change
  • The ability to develop and maintain internal and external trusting, professional relationships


Physical Demands

  • Ability to work in an office environment (Constant)
  • Required to sit and stand for long periods; talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone keyboard (Frequent)

Special Requirements

  • U.S. Citizenship required.


Clearance Level

Top Secret

The salary range for this role is:

$152,000 - $243,250

AeroVironment considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the location, the role and associated responsibilities, a candidates work experience, education/training, and key skills.

ITAR Requirement:

This position requires access to information that is subject to compliance with the International Traffic Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). In order to comply with the requirements of the ITAR and/or the EAR, applicants must qualify as a U.S. person under the ITAR and the EAR, or a person to be approved for an export license by the governing agency whose technology comes under its jurisdiction. Please understand that any job offer that requires approval of an export license will be conditional on AeroVironments determination that it will be able to obtain an export license in a time frame consistent with AeroVironments business requirements. A U.S. person according to the ITAR definition is a U.S. citizen, U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), or protected individual such as a refugee or asylee. See 22 CFR 120.15. Some positions will require current U.S. Citizenship due to contract requirements.

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.  For more information about our company benefit offerings please visit:  .

Principals only need apply.  NO agencies please.

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About AeroVironment

Size
1,214 employees
Market Cap
$2 billion
Industry
Net Income
$29.8 million
Founded
1971
5 Year Trend
+13.8%
Revenue
$394.1 million
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