Government Capture Lead: Air Force SBIR Phase III Growth

Slip Robotics; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Slip Robotics builds autonomous robots that load trailers and move heavy loads. We operate at warehouse and manufacturing sites across North America, now expanding our government business with an Air Force SBIR Phase II under way.

As Government Capture Lead, you will own capture from the first look at an opportunity through the signed award and drive Phase II to Phase III expansion across depots and commands, working closely with leadership and engineering.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in DoD capture, proposals, or contracting.
• Proven SBIR Phase III awards or follow-on production contracts.
• Experience at a small defense-tech company, or helping one scale.
• Proposals and briefings that senior government readers act on.
• Commitment to procurement integrity and ethics rules.
• Willingness to travel 25-40%.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Phase III strategy for our Air Force SBIR: sponsor, funding source, contracting path, and timeline.
• Find and qualify new pursuits across SBIR/STTR, OTAs, CSOs, prize challenges, and defense logistics and depot commands, and make bid or no-bid calls.
• Run proposals end to end: compliance, win themes, pricing input, and on-time submission.
• Build teaming relationships with primes and integrators when we shouldn't go alone.
• Keep the pipeline, SAM.gov registration, and compliance baseline current (CMMC, Section 889, ITAR, Buy American).
• Turn customer requirements into clear asks for engineering.

Skills

DoD capture experience

Proposal development

SBIR Phase III knowledge

Bid/no-bid decision making

Government reader briefings

Travel readiness

Tools

SAM.gov registration

CMMC compliance

ITAR compliance

Buy American awareness

DCAA-compliant pricing

Job description

Slip Robotics builds autonomous robots that load trailers and move heavy loads. We operate at warehouse and manufacturing sites across North America, now expanding our government business with an Air Force SBIR Phase II under way.

As Government Capture Lead, you will own capture from the first look at an opportunity through the signed award and drive Phase II to Phase III expansion across depots and commands, working closely with leadership and engineering.