Director, Sales & Growth — SPECTR

LMI; Tysons (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

LMI is seeking an experienced Director of Sales & Growth for its SPECTR portfolio to lead customer acquisition, sales execution, capture, and revenue growth across federal markets.

The successful candidate is a seller and builder who can engage senior government leaders, translate complex hardware/software into mission value, navigate DoD procurement, and align Product, Engineering, and Go‑to‑Market teams to win sustained business.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in technology sales, federal growth, or related roles.
• Proven success closing significant technology opportunities.
• Experience selling hardware, software, or integrated solutions.
• Strong consultative and solution-based sales skills.
• Experience navigating federal acquisition, contracting, funding, capture, and proposals.
• Experience with Department of War customers or markets strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to engage senior government leaders and acquisition professionals.
• Ability to understand complex technical products and coordinate with Product/Engineering teams.
• Excellent written, verbal, and executive presentation skills.
• Willingness to travel; security clearance eligible strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own SPECTR sales strategy across priority DoW and other federal markets.
• Own the sales pipeline with clear accountability for qualification, progression, forecasting, and conversion.
• Generate and qualify new opportunities with prospective customers, partners, program offices, and acquisition organizations.
• Lead consultative technology sales translating hardware/software capabilities into mission value propositions.
• Conduct customer discovery to understand workflows, funding, and decision criteria.
• Develop government buying strategies identifying contract vehicles and funding sources.
• Shape opportunities with customers and internal teams to align needs with SPECTR capabilities.
• Lead capture for priority pursuits including win themes, teaming, pricing inputs, and pursuit plans.
• Drive proposal performance ensuring customer needs and value are articulated.
• Lead demonstrations aligned to customer problems and sales objectives.
• Drive expansion within existing customers with follow-on opportunities and broader deployments.
• Build a repeatable sales operating model for qualification, pipeline reviews, and account planning.

Skills

Technology sales

Federal growth

Capture

Consultative selling

Executive engagement

Proposal leadership

Stakeholder management

Job description

Overview

LMI is a mission-driven digital solutions provider accelerating government impact through innovation, speed, and commercial-grade technology. We develop and deploy advanced RFID, sensor-mesh, and integrated hardware/software solutions that support mission-critical operations across the federal government, with a particular focus on the Department of War.

Overview

LMI is a mission-driven digital solutions provider accelerating government impact through innovation, speed, and commercial-grade technology. We develop and deploy advanced RFID, sensor-mesh, and integrated hardware/software solutions that support mission-critical operations across the federal government, with a particular focus on the Department of War.

Our SPECTR portfolio is seeking an experienced Director of Sales & Growth to lead customer acquisition, sales execution, capture, and revenue growth for an expanding family of integrated hardware and software solutions.

The ideal candidate is a seller and builder who combines strong technology-sales instincts with an understanding of how government customers buy. This individual should be comfortable engaging senior leaders and operational users, understanding complex customer problems, shaping solutions, navigating acquisition pathways, and advancing opportunities toward funded outcomes.

The strongest candidates will bring experience selling technical hardware, software, or integrated solutions in commercial, government, or dual-use markets, along with sufficient government contracting experience to navigate the unique buying processes of federal customers. Department of War experience is particularly valuable.

This role will work closely with SPECTR Product & Customer Success, Engineering, Hardware Systems, Portfolio Operations, Go-to-Market, and executive leadership to identify attractive opportunities, qualify customer demand, develop sales strategies, and convert opportunities into sustained business growth.

Responsibilities

• Own SPECTR sales strategy: Develop and execute focused sales strategies across priority Department of War and other federal markets.
• Own the sales pipeline: Establish clear accountability for opportunity identification, qualification, progression, forecasting, and conversion.
• Generate and qualify new opportunities: Proactively engage prospective customers, partners, program offices, acquisition organizations, and other stakeholders to identify mission needs aligned with SPECTR capabilities.
• Lead consultative technology sales: Translate complex hardware and software capabilities into compelling mission and business value propositions for operational, technical, acquisition, and executive audiences.
• Conduct customer discovery: Understand customer workflows, mission problems, technical environments, funding constraints, acquisition approaches, and decision criteria before significant resources are committed.
• Develop government buying strategies: Identify viable contract vehicles, acquisition pathways, funding sources, partners, and contracting approaches that allow qualified customers to purchase SPECTR capabilities.
• Shape opportunities: Work with customers and internal teams to mature requirements, scope, acquisition approaches, and implementation strategies that align customer needs with scalable SPECTR capabilities.
• Lead capture for priority pursuits: Develop capture strategies, competitive positioning, stakeholder maps, win themes, teaming approaches, pricing inputs, and pursuit plans.
• Drive proposal performance: Provide active leadership and substantive input to high-priority proposals, ensuring customer needs, technical value, competitive positioning, and win themes are clearly articulated.
• Lead sales-oriented demonstrations: Work with Product, Customer Success, Engineering, Hardware Systems, and the Go-to-Market Lead to ensure demonstrations are aligned to specific customer problems and sales objectives .
• Drive expansion within existing customers: Partner with Product & Customer Success to identify follow-on opportunities, additional use cases, adjacent organizations, and broader enterprise deployments.
• Build a repeatable sales operating model: Establish practical approaches for opportunity qualification, pipeline reviews, account planning, capture, forecasting, and leadership reporting.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in technology sales, federal growth, business development, capture, or related customer-facing growth roles.
• Demonstrated success developing and closing significant technology opportunities.
• Experience selling technical hardware, software, or integrated hardware/software solutions.
• Strong understanding of consultative and solution-based sales, including qualification , customer discovery, value proposition development, stakeholder management, and opportunity progression.
• Experience navigating federal government acquisition , contracting, funding, capture, and proposal processes.
• Experience supporting Department of War customers or markets strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to engage senior government leaders, operational customers, technical stakeholders, and acquisition professionals.
• Ability to understand complex technical products sufficiently to represent them credibly while effectively engaging Product, Engineering, Hardware Systems, and other technical experts when needed.
• Strong written, verbal, and executive presentation skills.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving environment with evolving products, customers, and priorities.
• Willingness to travel regularly to customer sites and other sales-related engagements.
• Eligible to obtain a Secret clearance; active Secret clearance strongly preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience selling RFID, IoT, sensor-mesh, logistics , industrial, supply-chain, or other integrated hardware/software technologies.
• Experience working across both commercial technology sales and federal government markets.
• Demonstrated success moving emerging technology from initial customer engagement to scaled government adoption or production deployment.

Applicants must meet eligibility requirements for a U.S. Government security clearance. Only U.S. Citizens are eligible for a security clearance. For this position, LMI will only consider applicants with security clearances or applicants who are eligible for security clearances, due to the nature of the work.

Target Salary Range: $140,000 - 210,000.

Final compensation will be determined by a variety of factors including but not limited to your skills, experience, education, and/or certifications.

Job Locations

US-VA-Tysons