Hiring: Director of Government Relations Company: Poseidon Aerospace Location: Washington, DC Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 12:20:35 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : Cargo About the job Experience: •7+ years of experience in the national security, government relations, or federal legislative or executive arena, with significant Capitol Hill engagement. Required Skills: •Personally carry the work on the Hill and across the agencies, and as the function grows, you will build and lead the team behind it. You should be a self-starter who finds the path to an outcome and walks it. •Define and lead Poseidon's congressional strategy across the NDAA, defense, and homeland security appropriations, and oversight. •Identify, draft, and advocate for authorization and report language that supports Poseidon's platforms and the industrial base behind them. •Drive annual appropriations and authorization campaigns to support program starts, plus-ups, and multi-year funding profiles that have direct and material impact on revenue. •Build and maintain deep, trust-based relationships with Members and staff on HASC, SASC, HAC-D, SAC-D, and related subcommittees. •Monitor, analyze, and engage the annual congressional policymaking process, with particular focus on appropriations and defense and homeland security policy. •Executive branch and interagency strategy •Engage the executive branch and interagency at senior levels to shape requirements, resourcing, and policy in Poseidon's favor. Qualifications: •Extensive defense and national security experience on Capitol Hill, in the executive branch, or in a comparable defense-industry government-relations position. •Demonstrated success planning and implementing strategies that influence change in the legislative, policy, and budget process, with a track record of outcomes through the NDAA and defense or homeland security appropriations. •Deep, working knowledge of PPBE, the U.S. federal appropriations and authorization processes, and how requirements map to funding lines, schedules, and risk, including the roles of executive agencies, the White House, the Senate, and the House. •One of the following profiles: professional staff on HASC, SASC, HAC-D, or SAC-D (or service for a senior appropriator), or current in-house government-relations experience at a defense technology company. •Demonstrated capacity to build coalitions and maintain relationships with key congressional and executive-branch officials and with industry and trade associations. •Willingness to register as an individual lobbyist under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995. •Based in and working from our Washington, DC office in person. Travel approximately 25% or greater. •U.S. Person. Bachelor's degree required; advanced degrees welcome but not required. •Established bipartisan relationships across the Armed Services and Appropriations committees and with senior executive-branch and combatant-command stakeholders. •Fluency in defense acquisition and the policy levers, including export control, that govern aerospace and autonomy. Compensation: •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) •Competitive salary and meaningful early-stage equity 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!