Austin, TX; Washington, D.C. On-site Contract

Gallatin AI is hiring a Mission Development Manager

Responsibilities

  • Identify key mission domains, customer entities, operational units, and acquisition routes where the company can deliver measurable impact
  • Create comprehensive account and territory strategies across defense, federal, and commercial markets, including stakeholder mapping, budget analysis, partner dependencies, and adoption barriers
  • Transform operational challenges into compelling opportunity narratives that align customer missions with platform capabilities in decision support, planning, logistics, sustainment, and workflow automation
  • Monitor emerging requirements, RFPs, SBIR/STTR programs, OTA activity, prototype initiatives, exercises, experiments, and partner-led efforts aligned with growth objectives
  • Execute structured customer discovery with operators, planners, logistics personnel, acquisition staff, program managers, and technical stakeholders
  • Build and sustain relationships with government users, transition partners, system integrators, prime contractors, advisory networks, and ecosystem participants
  • Prepare for and lead customer engagements including briefings, technical discussions, industry events, demonstrations, and follow-up actions
  • Document customer feedback, mission needs, workflow gaps, operational constraints, data access assumptions, integration requirements, and procurement dynamics for internal teams
  • Evaluate opportunities based on mission relevance, customer urgency, budget alignment, competitive positioning, acquisition feasibility, and transition likelihood
  • Develop call plans, account summaries, opportunity briefs, stakeholder maps, competitive analyses, partner strategies, and recommended next steps
  • Influence opportunities pre-solicitation by clarifying mission needs, shaping problem statements, identifying evaluation criteria, and aligning solution narratives with customer priorities
  • Support proposal development with customer insights, win themes, operational use cases, partner inputs, compliance details, and reviewer coordination in collaboration with capture leads
  • Maintain accurate sales pipeline data with realistic stage assessments, probabilities, next actions, risk factors, and forecasting inputs
  • Act as a bridge between external mission stakeholders and internal product and engineering teams
  • Convert customer insights into clear problem statements, user workflows, use cases, demo specifications, and capability gaps
  • Guide demonstration design by defining relevant operational context, user roles, workflows, data assumptions, and decision outcomes
  • Ensure external communications are truthful, credible, and reflect actual demonstration, delivery, and validation capabilities
  • Identify and cultivate partner relationships that enhance market access, credibility, contract options, technical integrations, or customer reach
  • Support teaming discussions with primes, integrators, small businesses, research institutions, and mission partners
  • Evaluate partner suitability based on customer access, contract positioning, technical fit, reputation, and conflict potential
  • Represent the company in initial customer discussions, conferences, industry days, and partner forums

Benefits

  • Competitive pay based on experience
  • Significant equity award
  • Comprehensive health insurance
  • 401k retirement plan
  • Unlimited paid time off
  • Advantages of working in a high-performance, mission-focused environment

Compensation

Competitive compensation commensurate with experience

Other

  • Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance
  • U.S. citizenship is required for all roles
  • Proof of citizenship must be provided before employment if selected
  • Ability to operate in classified environments when needed
About company
Gallatin AI

Gallatin transforms defense logistics from a vulnerability into a strategic advantage through AI-powered software tools that enable military planners to balance efficiency and effectiveness in both peacetime and conflict.

Gallatin is building a logistics platform based on the needs and constraints of today's defense industry. The platform creates actionable insights across tactical, operational, and strategic levels, providing integrated capabilities for first, middle, and last mile solutions.

The company offers AI-driven decision support and secure, compliant 3PL solutions, with products like Navigator, Burrow, and Phalanx designed to modernize defense logistics through automation, visibility, and real-time analysis.

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Department Business Development
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Posted 2 months ago