Join the Peraton Labs team to provide business development and capture support with a focus on advanced Cyber research. This critical domain spans offensive and defensive cyber capabilities, cyber resilience, automated thread detection, and AI-enable cyber operations. We are seeking a versatile business development and capture director to help grow our space research portfolio by identifying new opportunities, shaping capture strategies, engaging customers, and coordinating proposal development. This role requires a blend of customer-facing business development skills, domain experience in space research, and hands-on proposal leadership. As part of a small, agile team, the successful candidate will take ownership across the opportunity lifecycle from early customer engagement through proposal submission and award.

Key responsibilities include:

Business Development and Opportunity Identification

Identify, qualify, and pursue new business opportunities across multiple customers in the cyber research domain
Develop and maintain strong customer relationships to understand mission needs, research priorities, and funding trends
Monitor solicitations, roadmaps, and research initiatives to anticipate future opportunities
Collaborate with management and technical leadership to align customer needs with organizational capabilities and strategic objectives

Capture and Solutioning

Lead capture activities, including win strategy development, competitive analysis, teaming, and solution shaping
Apply space domain expertise to inform approaches, discriminators, and value propositions
Work closely with architects, engineers, and researchers to develop compelling, executable solutions
Support pricing, risk identification, and execution planning in coordination with internal stakeholders

Proposal Management and Development

Serve as Proposal Manager for selected opportunities, particularly in support of a small-team environment
Develop proposal schedules, outlines, compliance matrices, and color team plans
Coordinate inputs from technical, management, and business contributors
Ensure proposals clearly articulate customer value, technical credibility, and competitive differentiation
Manage reviews, track action items, and ensure on-time delivery

Job ID

164111

Security Clearance

TS/SCI

About Peraton

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We’re not mired in the past. We look at all problems with fresh eyes. We look past the obvious to bring the best talent, tech, and ideas together to completely transform how things get done, no matter the challenge.

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