# Director, International Growth Campaign Leader (R5851) at Shield AI

- Company: Shield AI
- What the company does: Autonomy for the world. Backed by a16z.
- Company website: https://shield.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Washington, D.C.
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $190K to $290K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-24
- Apply by: 2026-11-08
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/86b55811-f0b1-4c7b-886e-71a9906b2d51
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/shield-ai-director-international-growth-campaign-leader-r5851/

## About the role

The Director, International Growth Campaign Leader leads the internal operating system behind Shield AI international X-BAT pursuits. Regional, country and opportunity-focused Go-To-Market (GTM) leaders own their customers, their regional and in-country strategies, and their individual captures. This role owns the layer above them: the single, integrated view across regions, and the mechanisms that turn that view into faster decisions, earlier risk mitigation, and better-supported GTM leads.

## What they're looking for

- 12+ years in international B2G capture management, program management, strategic operations, business operations, technical program management, or a comparable cross-functional leadership role
- Demonstrated success leading highly complex initiatives with multiple interdependent workstreams across engineering, business development, operations, finance, and executive leadership
- Working knowledge of international defense pursuit dependencies, including FMS, DCS, or hybrid acquisition pathways and the approval, disclosure, and exportability sequencing that governs them
- Proven ability to influence without direct authority and to drive accountability across functions and geographies
- Strong executive communication: leadership briefings, dashboards, metrics, and decision-support materials that lead to decisions rather than discussion
- Deep operational rigor in integrated schedules, critical path, milestones, action tracking, dependency management, and risk mitigation

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