Senior Manager of Defense Policy
Job Description
As a member of the Government Relations (GR) team you will help shape the policy and regulatory environment to enable Shield AI to build and deploy the world’s best AI pilot. You will work with the broader GR team, the product team, and the business development team to understand the product and business roadmap and ensure our policy and regulatory align with those roadmaps. You will also be the responsible for designing and implementing an outreach and engagement strategy with think tanks, and other external parties as needed, to further drive our policy positions and communicating the vision of the company. You will also be responsible for understanding the current regulatory environment as it relates to unmanned aerial systems and autonomy, while providing support for Hill/policy maker meetings as needed.
Responsibilities
Support GR’s ongoing efforts to establish Shield AI as a thought leader in the industry, defense technology, and across the national security landscape through engagement with thank tanks and other external organizations as needed.
Design and implement a think tank outreach and engagement strategy.
Support, and in some cases lead, policy engagement with the Department of Defense.
Liaise with product and business development teams to ensure alignment of roadmaps and policy objectives.
Work with the GR team to engage the Marketing/Comms to ensure amplification of strategic messaging and heighten SAI’s public profile.
Analyze DoD and federal contract pipeline and the legislative/regulatory environment, over 1-, 2-, 5-year intervals to understand the funding landscape to help determine viable solicitations to bid on and customers to engage with to build opportunities before they exist in coordination with BD.
Maintain an ongoing strategic understanding of the current environment based off of market analysis and engagement with policy makers as well as a broad understanding of regulations governing unmanned aerial systems and autonomy.
Establish and maintain a repository of documentation related to contract vehicles, BD programs and other relevant information for internal and external use.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree
- At least 10 years’ work experience
- Ability to travel as needed
- Experience in technology space and national security space
- Ability to work independently within the construct of a larger team
- Mission focused
- Ability to explain highly technical information and concepts to non-technical audiences
