Account Executive - FSI - Shipbuilding & Maritime

Virtualitics; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully paid medical, dental and vision

Unlimited PTO

Remote flexibility and hybrid options

Job summary

Virtualitics is seeking a quota-carrying Sales Account Executive to lead the Shipbuilding & Maritime ecosystem within the Federal Systems Integrator and Defense Industrial Base markets. You will build revenue with primes, integrators, and defense-technology firms in the US.

The role requires deep knowledge of enterprise software, AI/ML, and complex deal cycles, with 40–50% travel and a strong hunter mindset to expand mission solutions nationwide.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in quota-carrying federal sales, strategic accounts, or business development.
• Proven revenue experience in Shipbuilding & Maritime markets.
• Experience selling enterprise software/AI/ML and data analytics.
• Demonstrated hunts, multi-stakeholder qualification, and closing skills.
• Knowledge of US federal acquisition, capture, and contract processes.
• Ability to articulate complex value to executives and program teams.
• Willingness to travel 40–50% and work autonomously.

Responsibilities

• Own the ecosystem: develop and execute a focused account and partner strategy across Shipbuilding & Maritime.
• Build qualified pipeline across primes, integrators, and emerging providers; maintain account plans and forecast.
• Sell-To: position Virtualitics in internal AI/analytics workflows.
• Sell-Through: engage in US government pursuits with capture and program teams.
• Sell-With: co-develop repeatable mission offerings with partners' capabilities.
• Embed/OEM: structure embedded licensing within partner platforms at scale.
• Foreign Military Sales: identify export opportunities with primes and allied customers.
• Map mission use cases across depot maintenance, production, logistics, and readiness.
• Manage multi-thread relationships across execs, BD, delivery, and security teams.
• Lead internal teams (solutions engineering, CS, marketing, contracts, capture).

Skills

Federal sales

Relationship building

Enterprise software sales

Executive communication

Negotiation & closing

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

About Virtualitics

Virtualitics is the category leader in AI-native readiness applications for defense, government, and critical infrastructure. Founded on a decade of Caltech research in partnership with NASA/JPL, we are led by scientists, strategists, and servicemembers united by a single mission: to solve the world’s most complex, mission-critical challenges with AI.

Our Readiness AI solutions deliver operational certainty - giving leaders and operators a clear picture of what’s ready, what’s at risk, and what to do next. By identifying risks early, diagnosing root causes, and recommending prioritized actions with transparent, explainable AI, we help organizations move from data complexity to decision advantage.

Behind that impact is relentless innovation. Inventors at heart, we hold 15+ U.S. patents and are leading the shift toward agent-driven readiness. But what truly sets us apart is our culture - relentless about results, grounded in transparency, and driven by compassion for the mission and the people it serves.

If you’re motivated by impact, inspired by technical depth, and ready to build AI that performs where it matters most - you’ll find your mission here.

Virtualitics is seeking a quota-carrying Sales Account Executive to own the Shipbuilding & Maritime ecosystem across the Federal Systems Integrator and Defense Industrial Base market. This role will build revenue-generating relationships with major primes, specialized suppliers and integrators, and emerging defense-technology companies supporting shipbuilding, ship repair, maritime industrial-base modernization, fleet sustainment, supplier performance, and workforce readiness.

The successful candidate will execute five coordinated growth motions within strategic accounts: Sell-To, Sell-Through, Sell-With, Embed/OEM, and Foreign Military Sales (FMS). This is a hunter role for a seller who understands how defense companies capture, win, deliver, productize, and expand mission solutions in the United States and with eligible allied customers.

Ecosystem & Candidate Relationship Profile

We are looking for candidates with active, credible relationships across a mix of company types. The examples below are illustrative, not an assigned account list.

Major primes & OEMs

HII, General Dynamics Electric Boat, Bath Iron Works and NASSCO, Fincantieri Marinette Marine, and Austal USA

Specialists & integrators

Bollinger Shipyards, BAE Systems Ship Repair, Fairbanks Morse Defense, Curtiss-Wright, BWXT, and Leonardo DRS

Emerging companies

regional shipbuilders, repair yards, maritime OEMs, and technology-enabled industrial suppliers

Relevant market signals include shipyard capacity, schedule recovery, supplier constraints, maintenance availability, workforce productivity, program execution, and allied maritime modernization.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the ecosystem: Develop and execute a focused account and partner strategy across the Shipbuilding & Maritime market, from executive relationship mapping through opportunity qualification, negotiation, and close.
• Build qualified pipeline: Create new opportunities across major primes, specialized companies, and emerging providers; maintain disciplined account plans, deal stages, next actions, and forecast accuracy.
• Sell-To: Position Virtualitics for the company’s internal AI, analytics, engineering, program, production, supply-chain, and delivery workflows.
• Sell-Through: Join active U.S. Government pursuits early and work with capture and program teams to specify Virtualitics in proposals, architectures, contract vehicles, and funded programs.
• Sell-With: Co-develop repeatable mission offerings that combine Virtualitics software with the partner’s domain expertise, integration, platform, and delivery capabilities.
• Embed/OEM: Structure embedded and OEM licensing relationships in which Virtualitics capabilities become part of a partner platform or branded solution at scale.
• Foreign Military Sales: Identify exportable solution opportunities with U.S. primes and eligible allied customers; navigate the FMS case lifecycle from pre-LOR shaping through Letter of Request (LOR), Letter of Offer and Acceptance (LOA), contracting, delivery, and expansion in coordination with internal export and legal resources.
• Map mission use cases: Translate partner and government needs into credible AI opportunities across depot maintenance, program intelligence, production and schedule analytics, supply-chain illumination, materiel readiness, workforce readiness, and budget decision support.
• Multi-thread relationships: Build trusted access across executive leadership, business development, capture, program delivery, technical, security, contracts, international, and FMS organizations.
• Lead the internal team: Orchestrate solutions engineering, customer success, marketing, product, contracts, capture, executive advisors, and FMS/export specialists around the highest-value opportunities.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of success in a quota-carrying Federal sales, strategic accounts, channel, alliances, or business-development role.
• Demonstrated relationships and revenue experience within the Shipbuilding & Maritime market.
• Experience selling enterprise software, AI/ML, data analytics, decision intelligence, or other complex mission technology solutions.
• Evidence of net-new hunting, executive access, opportunity creation, multi-stakeholder qualification, negotiation, and closing.
• Working knowledge of U.S. federal acquisition and FSI capture, including teaming, NDAs, IRAD, RFIs/RFPs, IDIQs, OTAs, task orders, and partner commercial structures.
• Ability to communicate a complex technical and mission value proposition to executives, capture leaders, program teams, operators, and technical audiences.
• Willingness to travel 40-50% and operate independently in a fast-moving, collaborative environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Track record executing two or more of the five growth motions, with strong preference for candidates who have built sell-through, OEM/embedded, or FMS revenue.
• Experience with the FMS ecosystem and stakeholders, including U.S. primes, DSCA, Department of State, implementing agencies, Security Cooperation Organizations, and partner-nation customers.
• Understanding of exportability, technology releasability, ITAR/export controls, data sovereignty, cybersecurity, cloud authorization, and classified or controlled mission environments.
• Experience with MEDDPICC, Challenger, or another disciplined enterprise-sales methodology.
• Active security clearance and bachelor’s degree, or equivalent relevant experience.

Clearance Requirement

This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance (interim and/or final). Continued employment is contingent upon successful adjudication; failure to obtain or maintain the required level of access may result in rescission of the job offer or termination of employment.

What Success Looks Like

• First 90 days: Establish ecosystem credibility, build the relationship map, qualify the initial account portfolio, and create a focused pipeline across the five motions.
• First year: Convert new partner relationships into direct, program, joint-solution, embedded, and qualified international revenue paths while meeting or exceeding annual quota.

Compensation

Competitive base salary based on experience and a lucrative 50/50 commission plan

What We Offer You

At Virtualitics, you’ll join a high-performance team of scientists, strategists, and servicemembers building AI that operates in the world’s most demanding environments. The problems we solve matter — and so does the opportunity to grow while solving them.

You’ll have meaningful ownership from day one, with the ability to accelerate your career alongside a company scaling rapidly in national security and critical infrastructure.

We offer highly competitive compensation, meaningful equity participation, and fully paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents. Our benefits also include unlimited PTO and flexible work arrangements, with remote flexibility and hybrid options for team members based in the Los Angeles or Washington, DC areas.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.