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About the Role
The Integrated Survivability Solutions Product Line is seeking a Program Director to lead the development and growth of a next-generation, long-range EO/IR threat warning sensor. This role serves as the internal product owner, leading a cross-functional team and establishing the product operating model and governance to mature a common sensor architecture while executing customer-specific applications. The ideal candidate will balance near-term execution with the long-term health, scalability, and competitiveness of the product.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the accountable business leader for the common EO/IR sensor product, its performance, maturity, roadmap, and overall business success.
- Build and lead the integrated team responsible for delivering the product from development through qualification, production, and fielding.
- Define decision rights, operating cadence, configuration governance, and change-control processes across common and customer-specific product requirements.
- Drive disciplined management of the core product baseline, balancing customer needs with reuse, affordability, scalability, and lifecycle considerations.
- Own cost, schedule, technical execution, risk and opportunity management, and achievement of key product and customer milestones.
- Partner with Engineering and Business Development to define future capabilities, investments, technology insertion, and next-generation growth opportunities.
- Support customer engagement, captures, proposals, and business cases that expand adoption of the common product across multiple platforms and customers.
- Drive early alignment across design, supply chain, manufacturing, test, quality, and supplier readiness to support a successful transition to production.
- Clearly communicate product health, key decisions, risks, investment needs, and business outlook to Product Area and Product Line leadership.
Requirements
- Leadership of complex defense electronics, sensor, EO/IR, or similarly integrated development programs.
- Experience transitioning advanced technology from development through qualification and production.
- Demonstrated leadership of large, cross-functional integrated teams.
- Strong understanding of program financials, risk and opportunity management, and business planning.
- Experience managing common product architectures across multiple customers, platforms, or configurations.
- Customer-facing experience supporting captures, proposals, negotiations, and program execution.
- Experience developing product roadmaps and shaping internal investment strategies.
- Experience building complex business cases and leading discussions with senior leadership.
- Successfully demonstrated leading teams through the transition to a common product build mentality.
- Successfully took a product through development, introduction, and commerciality.
Skills
- Systems-oriented leadership
- Decision-making in evolving development environments
- Creating structure where it does not yet exist
- Aligning multiple stakeholders around a common product strategy
- Balancing current development execution with establishing a scalable product framework
- Positioning products for future customer and platform adoption
Experience Level
- 12 years work experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree
About the Company
- BAE Systems, Inc. is a defense, aerospace, and security company headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, with more than 40,000 employees worldwide.
- We serve, supply, and protect those who protect us.
- As one of the most geographically diverse international defense companies, we deliver a full range of products and services spanning air, land, maritime, space, and cyber, including advanced electronics, intelligence solutions, and dedicated customer support.
- Our culture is performance-driven and values-led, built on curiosity, creativity, and collaboration.
- Purpose isn't a tagline here. It's what drives us.
- We're developing breakthrough technologies that defend national security and make a lasting impact on our communities and our planet.
- When you join BAE Systems, you're not just building a career. You're contributing to a mission that truly matters.