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Industry Strategy Lead - Aerospace and Defence

CoLab · North America, Remote · Remote

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About CoLab

Run AI-powered design reviews, capture expert feedback, and turn engineering knowledge into faster decisions. Backed by Insight and Y Combinator.

About the role

This is a senior, high-leverage operator reporting into the Head of Aerospace & Defense and with direct exposure to customers, account owners and Revenue leadership. Your experience will directly shape the strategy and execution behind CoLab’s most important aerospace and defense pursuits. You’ll build repeatable motions to support how we land and expand across primes, their supply base, and scale the wins across the A&D revenue team. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Proven experience owning enterprise strategy, or transformation programs inside complex A&D organizations
  • Fluent in the A&D procurement process
  • High emotional intelligence and the ability to read a room of executives in real time. You know when to push, when to pause, when to ask the harder question, and when to take the win and move on
  • U.S. person, given the export-controlled nature of the work. An active or prior security clearance is a strong plus
More about this role

At CoLab, we help mechanical engineering teams bring life-changing products to market years sooner.

We build AI for engineers designing cars, medical devices, and jet engines. Products this complex aren't sketched and sent to production. Teams spend months on iterations, reviews, and tests, predicting how every part performs before anything is built. CoLab is where those reviews happen, and we capture the rationale behind every change. Other tools show what changed between versions. Only CoLab knows why. That's how our AI helps manufacturers like Bobcat, Triumph Motorcycles, and GE Appliances make better decisions, eliminate rework cycles, and get to market faster.

Proudly based in St. John’s, Newfoundland, CoLab started with one customer in 2018. Since then we’ve raised a $72M Series C, been named the 57th fastest growing company in North America by Deloitte (Fast 500™), signed multi-year AI partnerships with companies like Bombardier, and grown to a team of 250+.

This is a senior, high-leverage operator reporting into the Head of Aerospace & Defense and with direct exposure to customers, account owners and Revenue leadership. Your experience will directly shape the strategy and...

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