Hiring: Director of Capture Management - Space Warfighting Company: Astrion Location: Arlington, VA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 14:14:16 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : Program Management, Risk Management, Systems Engineering About the job Experience: •20+ years of capture management, business development, program management, military space operations, defense acquisition, or related national security growth experience. Required Skills: •Minimum of 20+ years of capture management, business development, program management, military space operations, defense acquisition, or related national security growth experience. •Proven record personally leading and winning complex federal captures in the defense, intelligence, national security space, or mission-critical technical services market. •Demonstrated experience in Space Warfighting or adjacent mission areas, including several of the following: space control, space domain awareness, missile warning and tracking, OPIR, electromagnetic warfare, orbital warfare, mission C2/BMC2, ground systems, cyber resilience, operational test, wargaming, training, or mission operations support. •Strong familiarity with U.S. Space Force, SSC, CFC, STARCOM, NRO, USSPACECOM, SAF/SQ, SMDC, or related customers, including acquisition rhythms, mission priorities, customer pain points, and the industry ecosystem. •Solid functional working knowledge of FAR/DFARS, IDIQs, task orders, GWACs, OTAs, CSOs, rapid prototyping pathways, recompetes, price-to-win, and probability-of-win methods. •Demonstrated ability to apply market intelligence, competitive analysis, GovWin, FPDS, SAM.gov, CRM systems, AI, and data analytics to prioritize opportunities and improve capture management outcomes. •Prior experience supporting or capturing work for U.S. Space Force, Space Systems Command, NRO, USSPACECOM, STARCOM, SAF/SQ, CFC, SMDC, or related national security space organizations. •Prior military, government civilian, or industry experience in space operations, acquisition, intelligence, cyber, EW, missile warning, or command-and-control roles. Qualifications: •Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, National Security, Space Systems, Public Policy, or a related field required; Master’s degree preferred. •Executive presence with the ability to engage senior government customers, industry partners, and internal executives with credibility and confidence. •Strong ability to translate complex mission needs into differentiated, customer-centered capture strategies and solution concepts. •Excellent leadership, communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence across matrixed teams. •Strategic thinker with disciplined business judgment, including the ability to assess where Astrion should prime, sub, team, invest, or no-bid. •Demonstrated capacity to lead cross-functional capture teams across business development, operations, technical SMEs, contracts, pricing, finance, recruiting, and executive stakeholders. •Top Secret/SCI eligible; active TS/SCI w/CI Poly preferred. Compensation: •$200,000 - $265,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!