Vice President, Advanced Systems (Business Capture) Quantum Sensing Solutions

The Vice President (VP) Advanced Systems (AS) is responsible for leading the Advanced Systems function within Infleqtions Quantum Sensing Solutions (QSS) Business Unit. The primary focus of this role is to drive business capture excellence in partnership with QSS Business Area (BA) VPs QSS Program Managers (PMs) Proposal Operations and Contracts Management. Business capture ownership initiates from a defined point of opportunity qualification and extends through proposal submission customer negotiation and contract award. Success in this role requires building a high functioning AS capture team ensuring that QSS pursuits are strategically aligned to business objectives competitive positioning of offers to maximize probability of win (Pwin) implementing and following capture best practices for offer development and strategic teaming appropriately resourcing pursuits and proposals and strong collaboration within QSS to ensure program success after award.

The AS VP will provide functional leadership of the Advanced Systems Manager (ASM) team own the QSS capture operating model and associated budgets lead the gated capture process own the pursuit and capture pipeline forecast around future bookings and opportunity portfolio and ensures effective transition from Business Development through Capture to program execution handoff. While the QSS BA VPs retain responsibility for bookings and growth within their respective portfolios the AS VP owns ensuring excellence in the capture process and management/oversight of the ASM staff. The AS VP will need to directly lead and support captures for highly strategic pursuits or to increase capacity in this opportunity rich environment. This position is an extremely high impact leadership role that directly impacts QSS and Infleqtion growth of the quantum sensing business across national security civil and select commercial markets.

Own and drive business captures capture excellence and governance.

• Establish a high-performing organization capable of growing a portfolio of leading edge quantum sensing opportunities.
• Define mature and enforce the capture operating model including roles responsibilities gate criteria capture artifacts approval authorities and handoff expectations across the business lifecycle.
• Lead or oversee capture strategy development for significant opportunities including win themes discriminators customer engagement strategy customer value competitive assessment technical and program solution shaping pricing posture teaming strategy and execution-risk posture.
• Support bid/no-bid ROM proposal and investment decisions for QSS opportunities consistent within delegated authority and company approval processes.
• Ensure awarded programs enter execution with documented technical cost schedule contractual staffing supplier and customer baselines and/or assumptions.
• Work with Business Area VPs and staff to shape opportunity priorities capture strategy customer engagement teaming approach and major subcontractor strategies.
• Ensure proposal technical management schedule pricing and cost elements are aligned with the approved capture strategy and execution-risk posture.
• Support customer negotiations clarifications BAFO activities and final proposal revisions as required through contract award.
• Primary business growth and program development leadership interface within QSS
• Serve as the senior leadership interface for capture priorities business opportunity health gate-review outcomes and capture-phase forecast content.
• Partner with Business Area Vice Presidents to deliver bookings consistent with the QSS Operating Plan.
• Partner with the VP Program Execution Business Area VPs Program Managers Engineering Finance Contracts Legal Supply Chain and Quality to ensure proposal assumptions customer commitments risk posture and program baselines are understood and executable.
• Drive capture lessons learned and feedback loops into BD capture proposal and program execution processes.
• Establish and maintain a highly collaborative interface with the centralized enterprise Business Development function under the Chief Revenue Officer ensuring efficient and highly effective transition from opportunity identification maturation and qualification into the QSS capture phase.
• Lead executive-level proposal reviews for strategic or high-value opportunities ensuring compliance clarity competitiveness realism and alignment with QSS strategy.
• Represent QSS capture posture in internal executive reviews corporate growth discussions and selected external engagements.

Acquire cultivate lead and manage Advanced Systems Manager (ASM) capture management talent.

• Lead the staffing process definition training performance management and functional management.
• Assign ASMs to qualified opportunities based on strategic importance customer alignment technical complexity competitive landscape resource availability and execution risk.

Lead and drive capture portfolio operations

• Manage and maintain the QSS business opportunity database for capture-phase opportunities.

• Develop and maintain the monthly QSS capture-phase opportunity forecast in partnership with Business Area VPs Finance/FP&A Business Development and Program Execution.
• Define forecast data structures reporting cadence data quality expectations and integration points with BD-phase and execution-phase portfolio data.
• Provide capture-phase inputs to the QSS Annual Operating Plan monthly reforecasts business reviews and Board-level reporting as required.
• Track capture budget allocations and cost schedule resources risks win probability proposal readiness customer milestones and key decision points across the QSS capture portfolio.

Why Join Us

This role offers the opportunity to shape and scale the growth engine for Infleqtions Quantum Sensing Solutions business. The VP Advanced Systems will play a central role in converting advanced quantum sensing technologies into mission-relevant programs customer partnerships and long-term business growth.

The successful candidate will have significant visibility with senior leadership direct influence over QSS strategy and operating-plan performance and the opportunity to build the capture function required to scale a leading quantum technology portfolio across national security aerospace and commercial markets.

• Bachelors degree in engineering physics business or a related technical or business discipline; advanced degree preferred.
• 15 years of experience in aerospace defense intelligence national security advanced technology or related markets with significant experience in capture leadership program development business growth or program execution.
• Demonstrated success leading or overseeing complex captures that resulted in contract awards preferably involving advanced technologies government customers and cross-functional proposal teams.
• Experience managing capture or business-development professionals program managers technical teams or cross-functional pursuit organizations.
• Strong understanding of U.S. government acquisition processes contracting vehicles proposal development customer engagement and competitive capture best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to work across Business Development Engineering Program Execution Finance Contracts Legal Supply Chain Proposal Operations and executive leadership.
• Experience balancing capture competitiveness with execution realism including cost schedule technical contractual and resource risk.
• Strong executive communication skills including the ability to brief senior leaders customers partners and Board-level stakeholders.
• Experience operating in fast-paced resource-constrained environments where process discipline judgment and hands-on leadership are required.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in quantum sensing photonics RF systems precision navigation and timing inertial sensing ISR space systems or other deep-tech national security civil and/or commercial markets.
• Existing customer partner or industry relationships across DoD IC NASA aerospace primes defense primes or relevant commercial technology markets.
• Direct experience with OTA SBIR/STTR CRADA BAAs FAR/DFARS contracts cost-share arrangements and other traditional and non-traditional acquisition mechanisms.
• Experience building or scaling capture organizations gated capture processes opportunity databases business operating rhythms and portfolio forecasting systems.
• Experience in small or mid-sized defense aerospace or deep-tech companies transitioning from bespoke R&D programs toward larger recurring programs production or standard-product portfolios.
• Familiarity with AS9100 government contracting compliance export control security requirements and program execution governance.
• Active security clearance.

Success Metrics

• Quality consistency and discipline of capture execution across QSS qualified opportunities.
• Achievement of QSS bookings and capture-phase objectives consistent with the QSS Operating Plan.
• Improved capture win rate proposal quality and strategic alignment of awarded work.
• Effectiveness of Advanced Systems Manager staffing development training assignments and performance.
• Timeliness and quality of capture gate reviews executive decision materials and approval packages.
• Accuracy and operational value of the QSS capture-phase opportunity database and monthly capture forecast.
• Effectiveness of BD-to-capture and capture-to-execution transitions.
• Demonstrated improvement in the balance of competitive positioning business attractiveness and execution-risk acceptability.
• Quality of collaboration with Business Area VPs Program Execution Engineering Proposal Operations Finance Contracts Legal Supply Chain and corporate Business Development organizations and personnel.

Notice to Recruitment Agencies:

Infleqtion does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Infleqtion is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

• Salary Range: per year 00
• 100% company-paid medical dental vision short/long-term disability
• Employer-funded Health Savings Account
• Unlimited PTO
• 401(k) match
• Company-paid Life and AD&D Insurance
• Flexible Savings Account
• Paid FMLA Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Student Loan Repayment
• Equity Program

Notice to Recruitment Agencies:

Infleqtion does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Infleqtion is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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