European Business Development Lead — NATO

The role

You will identify, pursue, and secure new business across European NATO frontline states. You will build strategic partnerships, develop proposals, and translate customer priorities into engineering needs.

What you will do

• Deliver on existing pipeline of opportunities in Northern and Eastern Europe
• Expand European pipeline by identifying and qualifying business opportunities
• Build and maintain strategic partnerships with local European industry players
• Engage with NATO and multinational contracting frameworks
• Provide insights into market dynamics and the European competitor landscape
• Partner with BD and capture leadership to develop capture plans
• Partner with government affairs and legal to ensure compliance with US export procedures
• Partner with government affairs for engagement of the Washington-based diplomatic community
• Attend customer meetings, industry days, conferences, exercises and trade shows
• Translate European customer priorities into capability needs for engineering

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years working directly with European militaries, ministries of defence or defence industry primes
• Strong understanding of European defence procurement and national acquisition processes
• Significant experience supporting and writing defense proposals, market research and white papers
• Exceptional written and verbal communication
• Discerning strategic thinking and strong risk assessment skills

Nice to have

• Familiarity with radar, RF, and sensor systems
• Weapons systems, defense technology or communications domain experience
• Established relationships with senior defense decision-makers and European industry contacts
• A second working language (e.g., German, Polish, Nordic or Baltic language)
• Understanding of how to develop business cases
• Understanding of the European defense industrial landscape

Benefits

• private medical, dental and vision benefits (for employees & dependents) will be 100% paid for by the company
• 5% pension match
• competitive base salaries
• generous pre-IPO stock option grants
• relocation assistance
• annual bonuses (coming soon!)

Before you apply

• CHAOS Industries does not accept unsolicited resumes or outreach

About the company

CHAOS Industries is a defense company founded in 2022 that uses Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™) to empower warfighters and commercial operators. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, and London.