Vice President, Space and Missile Defense

Vice President, Space and Missile Defense 

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.

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 info@kodatech.com to ask for an accommodation or an alternative application process.