Jobs in Ventura County, CA

About the role

This role is its dedicated Product Marketing owner reporting to the Head of Product Marketing with dotted line to VP of Marketing & Communications. You will own product positioning, messaging, launch planning, and sales enablement for the franchise end-to-end. This is a senior individual contributor role with real decision rights and a single-owner accountability model: one portfolio, one owner, direct executive visibility. The mandate is to bring software-industry product marketing discipline to a defense franchise whose buyers are USG program offices and allied governments: positioning rigor grounded in operational evidence, launch planning that run on a repeatable framework, and enablement that measurably moves capture outcomes. This is not an arms-length marketing role. You will operate as an embedded member of the Loitering Munitions business, building your positioning and enablement from inside the business unit's operating rhythm rather than from briefings after the fact.

What you'll bring

• 12+ years total post-military or civilian work experience
• 8+ years in product marketing with meaningful time in both enterprise software or hardware-software product marketing and defense, aerospace, or dual-use technology.
• Demonstrated ownership of a product line or portfolio at $100M+ revenue scale.
• Fluency in DoD acquisition dynamics: program of record lifecycles, POM cycles, FMS/DCS mechanics.
• Demonstrable positioning craft: you can show a positioning document, launch plan, campaign plan, and enablement asset you built that moved a measurable number.
• Ability to operate within export control, classification, and public-release constraints without diluting message strength.
• Self-directed operator: you run a portfolio with executive-level accountability and minimal day-to-day direction.
• Proven ability to earn the trust of technical and program stakeholders and operate inside a business unit's rhythm, functioning as a partner to the business rather than a service function.
• Commutable distance from AV Simi Valley Campus
• In order to comply with the requirements of the ITAR and/or the EAR, applicants must qualify as a U.S. person under the ITAR and the EAR, or a person to be approved for an export license by the governing agency whose technology comes under its jurisdiction.
• Please understand that any job offer that requires approval of an export license will be conditional on AeroVironment’s determination that it will be able to obtain an export license in a time frame consistent with AeroVironment’s business requirements.
• See 22 CFR § 120.15.

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