Vice President, Space and Missile Defense

KODA Technologies Inc.; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

KODA Technologies Inc. seeks a Vice President to lead its Space and Missile Defense Business Unit in Huntsville, Alabama.

This hands-on leadership role requires directing operations, financial performance, customer satisfaction, and talent development while driving growth and strategic partnerships with government and defense customers. The role combines executive oversight with direct customer engagement, budget planning, pricing strategy, and proposal support to ensure mission success and

Qualifications

• Minimum of 15 years of progressively responsible experience in space, missile defense, or related government missions.
• Executive leadership demonstrated with people-first culture and integrity.
• Proven ability to develop growth strategies, manage pipelines, and lead proposals.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Space and Missile Defense BU operations, financial performance, and staffing.
• Maintain regular customer engagement, oversee contract performance, budgets, and pricing.
• Partner on growth strategies, capture activities, teaming, and proposal support.

Skills

Leadership

Revenue management

Strategic planning

Customer engagement

Communication

Active Secret Clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or science

Equivalent military/government experience

Job description

Company Overview

KODA is a people-first small business focused on solving complex engineering problems for national-priority missions in areas such as missile defense, hypersonics, space, and intelligence. KODA is a seven-time winner of Huntsville's Best Places to Work® Award, certified as a Great Place to Work®, and a Best Place for Working Parents®. We prioritize our people, customer mission success, and community service through KODA Cares. We offer competitive compensation, excellent benefits, and opportunities for professional growth.

Position Overview

KODA is seeking a Vice President to lead its Space and Missile Defense Business Unit (BU) in Huntsville, AL. This is a hands-on leadership position requiring direct engagement in and responsibility for business unit operations, financial performance, customer satisfaction, employee development and retention, and business growth. The BU executive may also provide direct customer support while maintaining accountability for overall business unit performance.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership

Foster KODA's people-first culture through active employee engagement, mentoring, and professional development. Develop emerging leaders, promote accountability and high performance, and manage employee performance, retention, and personnel matters in collaboration with team leaders and corporate support functions.

Operations

Maintain regular customer engagement and ensure customer satisfaction. Manage contract performance, revenue, profitability, utilization, and expenses. Coordinate contract actions. Own workforce plans, staffing priorities, requisitions, and candidate selection. Develop budgets and forecasts covering funded and unfunded backlog, anticipated new business, and award timing. Lead pricing strategy for existing work, labor category planning, and task order proposal strategy in coordination with corporate support functions.

Business Development

Partner with corporate Business Development to develop and execute BU growth strategies. Identify and qualify opportunities, cultivate customer and industry relationships, and maintain an actionable opportunity pipeline. Lead or actively support capture activities, teaming, and pursuit decisions. Identify emerging customer requirements and pursue opportunities to expand KODA's support. Coordinate BU contributions to proposals, white papers, and requests for information.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 15 years of progressively responsible experience supporting space, missile defense, or related government missions, including demonstrated technical credibility, leadership experience, and results supporting national security or civil space customers.
• Demonstrated commitment to a people-first culture, integrity, customer mission success, and professional excellence, consistent with KODA's values.
• Proven leadership experience, including motivating teams, developing employees and emerging leaders, managing performance and accountability.
• Experience managing revenue, profitability, budgets, forecasts, staffing, and utilization across government prime contracts or subcontracts.
• Demonstrated ability to develop growth strategies, build opportunity pipelines, and lead or support capture and proposal teams.
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to personally execute operational, financial, staffing, customer engagement, and business development responsibilities in a dynamic small-business environment.
• Strong customer engagement, communication, and judgment, including the ability to brief senior leaders, resolve conflicts, and manage competing priorities.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, or a related field, or equivalent relevant military, government, or industry experience.
• Active Secret Clearance

Desired Qualifications

• Demonstrated success leading a business unit, portfolio, or multiple government programs with accountability for customer outcomes, people, and financial performance.
• Experience supporting space and missile defense organizations such as MDA, USASMDC, USSPACECOM, U.S Space Force, NASA, U.S. Army AvMC, and PAE Fires.
• Established relationships with space and missile defense customers, prime contractors, and potential teaming partners.
• Experience leading both prime and subcontract portfolios, expanding existing customer work and winning new business.

Other

On-Site, Full-Time in Huntsville, AL.

Position Close Date

November 6, 2026.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

KODA Technologies Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, status as a parent, national origin, disability (physical or mental), family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service, or other non-merit based factors. If you are unable to complete this application due to a disability, contact [e-mail] to ask for an accommodation or an alternative application process.