Director, International Growth Campaign Leader (R5851)

Posted:
9/24/2026, 2:27:26 AM

Location(s):
Washington, District of Columbia, United States ⋅ District of Columbia, United States

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Growth & Marketing

Workplace Type:
On-site

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube. 

Job Description:

The Director, International Growth Campaign Leader leads the internal operating system behind Shield AI international X-BAT pursuits. Regional, country and opportunity-focused Go-To-Market (GTM) leaders own their customers, their regional and in-country strategies, and their individual captures. This role owns the layer above them: the single, integrated view across regions, and the mechanisms that turn that view into faster decisions, earlier risk mitigation, and better-supported GTM leads. 

Each GTM lead sees their own campaign clearly. No one else sees the whole international board. This role does. It connects individual pursuits to shared dependencies — U.S. Government approvals, foreign disclosure and export sequencing, engineering and product capacity, aircraft and test availability, indirect investment, partner and industrial strategy — and makes sure competing regional timelines and strategies are sequenced deliberately rather than reactively. 

This is a pre-award enablement and integration role. It is explicitly not the primary customer interface, and it does not extend to the execution of customer-funded programs after award, though it may involve developing projections to better inform execution-supporting decision making. The GTM lead remains the face to the customer, the owner of the account plan, and the accountable capture lead for their country. This role makes those leads faster, better armed, and better supported. 

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Full-time regular employee offer package:
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
 
Temporary employee offer package:
Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)
 
Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information.
 
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