Vice President, Advanced Systems (Business Capture)- Quantum Sensing Solutions
$31,200–$31,200 year
On-siteLouisville, Colorado, United States
Job Summary
Own and drive business captures, capture excellence, and governance for Infleqtion's Quantum Sensing Solutions. Establish a high-performing organization to grow a portfolio of leading-edge quantum sensing opportunities and define the capture operating model, including roles, gate criteria, and handoff expectations. Lead or oversee capture strategy for significant opportunities, support bid/no-bid and proposal decisions, and ensure awarded programs enter execution with documented baselines. Manage the ASM team, assign staff to qualified opportunities, and maintain the opportunity database and monthly forecast. Partner with Business Area VPs, Program Managers, and cross-functional leaders to deliver bookings and shape opportunity priorities. Represent QSS capture posture in internal executive reviews and external engagements.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, business, or a related technical or business discipline
- Advanced degree
- 15+ years of experience in aerospace, defense, intelligence, national security, advanced technology, or related markets
- Significant experience in capture leadership, program development, business growth, or program execution
- Demonstrated success leading or overseeing complex captures that resulted in contract awards
- Experience involving advanced technologies, government customers, and cross-functional proposal teams
- Experience managing capture or business-development professionals, program managers, technical teams, or cross-functional pursuit organizations
- Strong understanding of U.S. government acquisition processes, contracting vehicles, proposal development, customer engagement, and competitive capture best practices
- Demonstrated ability to work across Business Development, Engineering, Program Execution, Finance, Contracts, Legal, Supply Chain, Proposal Operations, and executive leadership
- Experience balancing capture competitiveness with execution realism, including cost, schedule, technical, contractual, and resource risk
- Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to brief senior leaders, customers, partners, and Board-level stakeholders
- Experience operating in fast-paced, resource-constrained environments where process discipline, judgment, and hands-on leadership are required
- U.S. citizenship
- Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in quantum sensing, photonics, RF systems, precision navigation and timing, inertial sensing, ISR, space systems, or other deep-tech national security, civil, and/or commercial markets
- Existing customer, partner, or industry relationships across DoD, IC, NASA, aerospace primes, defense primes, or relevant commercial technology markets
- Direct experience with OTA, SBIR/STTR, CRADA, BAAs, FAR/DFARS contracts, cost-share arrangements, and other traditional and non-traditional acquisition mechanisms
- Experience building or scaling capture organizations, gated capture processes, opportunity databases, business operating rhythms, and portfolio forecasting systems
- Experience in small or mid-sized defense, aerospace, or deep-tech companies transitioning from bespoke R&D programs toward larger recurring programs, production, or standard-product portfolios
- Familiarity with AS9100, government contracting compliance, export control, security requirements, and program execution governance
- Active security clearance
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