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Leidos

Director, Business Development – Air Force, Space Force

Leidos

. Identify, develop, qualify, and lead US Air Force and US Space Force opportunities within Leidos’ Digital market space .

Posted 9/25/2026full-timeRemote • Virginia • United StatesLead💰 $154,050 - $278,475 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
Cyber SecurityTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Identify, develop, qualify, and lead US Air Force and US Space Force opportunities within Leidos’ Digital market space
  • Shape and win new business through customer engagement, value proposition development, competitive assessment, solution advocacy, and brand promotion
  • Contribute to growth strategy and develop ideas and solutions addressing customer problems
  • Define technical solutions and competitive assessments
  • Identify potential new customers and emerging requirements
  • Drive competitive assessments, build winning teammates and suppliers, and craft position-to-win themes
  • Participate in bid and proposal activities and cross-functional pursuit teams
  • Partner with industry partners, technical subject matter experts, operations and functional leadership, and corporate BD and capture organizations
  • Manage and execute the full opportunity life-cycle through qualification and capture across multiple simultaneous pursuits
  • Perform market and economic analysis and business intelligence
  • Design and execute customer engagement plans and shaping activities
  • Support captures through reviews, capture tag-ups, and capture strategy execution
  • Conduct Division and Business Area New Business Reviews
  • Develop, manage, and maintain the assigned Division business development budget
  • Plan, forecast, prioritize, and oversee business development expenditures
  • Interact with management, functional points of contact, staff, and customers

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education
  • 15+ years of professional experience
  • Strong familiarity and relationships with US Air Force and US Space Force
  • Demonstrated ability to develop a business growth pipeline across a heterogeneous portfolio
  • Aptitude for strategic planning, financial analysis, business development and teaming
  • Aptitude for milestone-based business development and capture process, including opportunity identification, developing business cases, and capture management
  • Project management and organizational skills
  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills
  • Strong leadership and communications skills
  • Technical background or operational experience
  • Successful track record of significant pipeline development and/or capture accomplishment and associated win rates
  • Ability to operate at the senior level and influence, negotiate and close
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense government security clearance with the US Space Force / US Air Force at TS/SCI level
  • US Citizenship required
  • Preferred: technical degree or background in Information Technology and Cyber Security
  • Preferred: prior experience managing teams in a dynamic environment
  • Preferred: experience with federal government budget, investments and acquisition processes
  • Preferred: business development/capture management familiarity within the Military industry base
  • Preferred: Business Development and/or Capture experience with large Federal bids, particularly Defense department and Intelligence Community

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Remote/Teleworker work arrangement
  • Travel on an as-needed basis