Airborne ISR Market Development Lead

Metrea; Washington; On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical plan options

HSA/FSA accounts

Dental and vision coverage

6% employer 401(k) match

Fully paid parental leave

Generous PTO

Job summary

Metrea is seeking a Development Lead with deep experience in Airborne ISR to design and deliver elegant solutions for government partners. You will evaluate manned and unmanned platforms, sensors, and communications while collaborating with Cyber, EW, and Simulation teams to turn concepts into deployable capabilities.

Responsibilities include building relationships with government partners, leading bid activities, and guiding cross‑functional teams through proposal development to maintain

Qualifications

• Broad understanding of Air domain sensors and capabilities for manned and unmanned platforms.
• Experience delivering Air domain solutions to national security partners.
• Experience leading complex Air domain bids and generating bid content.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with government partners to understand wicked ISR problems.
• Identify market demand and lead bid activity to generate proposals.
• Collaborate with core and support groups to design, develop, and deliver solutions for government partners.
• Evaluate manned and unmanned platforms, sensors, and communications for ISR solutions.
• Work with industry to identify future technology and potential partners.
• Turn prospects into programs by coordinating with program managers to evolve services.

Skills

Air domain sensors

Manned/unmanned platforms

Bid leadership

National security

Job description

Company Overview

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.

At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It’s a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.

Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.

GroupOverview

TheAmericas Market Groupis responsible foridentifyingwicked problems facing national security customers in theAmericas andthen working withMetrea’score and support groups to design, develop, and deliver elegant solutions. The group includes capability areas for Strategy, Strategic Relations, Market Development, and Bid, Proposal, & Support.

Position Summary

This roleleveragesdeep experience in Airborne ISRto design and develop elegant solutions to the hardest problems in aerospace (civil and military,mannedand unmanned). As a Development Lead you have a deep understanding of Air domain effects, sensors and capabilities, the missions they are employed within and the markets and customers thatrequirethem.

What You’ll Do

• Build relationships with government partners at multiple levels to understand the wicked problems they are facing, with a particular focus on ISR
• Identifymarket demand or solutions to our customer’s problems – lead the capture activity to generate compelling and compliant proposals that maximize our p(Win)
• Work with Metrea’s core and support groups to design, develop, and deliver elegant solutions for government partners, including evaluating manned and unmanned airborne platforms, sensors for those platforms, communications infrastructure, and PED/analysis as required
• As a Development Lead you will work closely with colleagues in otherdomainse.g.Cyber, EW, andSimulationto createtruly uniqueeffects as a service. You will also work with our lab teams to help transition concepts into products or abilities that can be employed by ourmannedand unmanned assets
• Work with industry to understand the best available current and future technology across all aspects of ISR solution delivery, and to identify potential industry partners
• Turn prospects into programs – work with program managers to ensure our services are constantly evolving to cement our incumbency and stay at the leading edge of what is possible

What You Bring

• A broad and deep understanding of Air domain sensors and abilities, and experience with bringing them to bear onmannedand unmanned platforms
• Broad experience of Air domain missions. Emphasis is on Manned Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (MAISR), experienceof broader Air domain mission setse.g.Aerial Fire Fighting, Air to Air Refueling, Strategic Transport and Mobility is desirable
• Experienced in developing or delivering Air domain developmental or operational solutions to national security partners
• Some experience preferred in leading complex Air domain bids and in generating bid quality technical content

AdditionalEligibilityQualifications

• 10+ combined experience in Aerospace and Defense. A mix of military and civil experience is preferred
• Must have operational experience in a relevant mission, ideally an ISR or Law Enforcement (LE) role with a military or government customer
• The ability to create high quality, technically sound written work to a deadline in support of bids and proposals is essential

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical plan options
• HSA/FSA accounts
• Dental and vision coverage
• 6% employer 401(k) match
• Fully paid parental leave for all new parents
• Generous PTO
• Life and disability insurance
  Long-term and Short-term disability coverage
• AD&D Coverage
• Pet Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Subsided gym membership / plans throughWellhub

WorkAuthorization/SecurityClearance

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Must be a U.S. citizen.

AAP/EEO Statement

This Companyis an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race,color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteranstatusor other characteristics protected by law.

PositionTypeandExpectedHoursofWork

This is a full-time exempt position with typical working hours of Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Hours and work shifts may changein accordance withdepartment and business needs. Exempt Employees must have the ability to be on-call and available, as business needs require.

WorkEnvironment

This joboperatesin an office setting.

Travel

25%

Our Firmware

At Metrea, our single core value is Rooted in Humility, and our four cornerstone attributes are Entrepreneurial, Systematic, Discerning, and Over-Deliver. These form what we call our Teammate Firmware. Just like technical firmware connects software and hardware, our Firmware is the constant interface between our mission and our people. It defines how we show up, how we work together, and how we solve complex problems.

Our team Firmware creates a web-like, hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical way of working that helps us adapt quickly, communicate openly, and distribute decision-making to where expertise actually lives. It enables groups to self-organize around hard problems, shift fluidly as priorities evolve, and operate with the trust, curiosity, and discipline required in a complex mission space. This foundation allows us to deliver elegant, effective solutions and uphold our purpose: protecting our precious inheritance.