Aerospace, Aviation & Defense Executive Roles
More than 348 executive roles classified in Aerospace, Aviation & Defense, with 19 new this week. Executive leadership at primes, OEMs, MRO, space, and defense systems companies — engineering- and program-management-heavy.
Tier breakdown
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Founder36
C-Suite221
VP6
Sr Director85
DirectorWhat this category covers
Aerospace, Aviation & Defense covers executive roles at primes, OEMs, MRO providers, space companies, and dual-use defense tech. The talent mix skews engineering, program management, and operations leadership.
Includes new-space companies (launch, satellites), commercial aviation services, and defense-software firms when their primary customer is government.
Across the 348 active roles in this category, the largest tier is VP. The classifier weighs company size, scope, and reporting line — not just the title prefix — so the tier mix reflects real responsibility, not vanity titles.
Sample Jobs (10 of 348)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Chief Engineer, Ground Maneuver Anduril Industries Lead the architecture and delivery of a vehicle-to-mission interface layer, ensuring robust, cost-effective systems ready for the field. C-Suite | Costa Mesa, California, United States Onsite |
| Starlink Enterprise Sales Director, SLED SpaceX The role involves building and executing a go-to-market strategy for the SLED market, leading a sales team, and meeting revenue targets. Director | Bastrop, TX Onsite |
| Manufacturing Programs Leader GE Aerospace The role involves leading manufacturing programs, ensuring product readiness, execution, and delivery. It requires managing complex manufacturing issues and driving GE Aerospace's Lean operating system. VP | Istanbul, Türkiye Hybrid |
| HR Leader - Edison Works Engineering GE Aerospace Lead a team of HR professionals supporting the Edison Works Engineering Team, focusing on HR strategies, leadership coaching, and talent development. VP | Evendale, Ohio, United States of America Onsite |
| Materials and Logistics Quality Leader GE Aerospace The role involves providing strategic and technical leadership to drive Zero Defect Culture and Proactive Quality across the warehousing and materials network. It includes leading the quality organization for internal logistics and warehouses and partnering with leadership for continuous improvement. VP | Erlanger, Kentucky, United States of America Onsite |
| Principal Product Innovation Lead Stratolaunch The role involves serving as a technical and strategic bridge between various departments to identify and mature new business opportunities in the aerospace sector, focusing on national security. It requires aligning emerging opportunities with internal technology investments and transitioning them into customer-funded programs. VP | Mojave, CA Hybrid |
| Senior Director, Tax & Treasury Stratolaunch Lead tax and treasury functions for a mid-size aerospace and defense contractor, focusing on tax compliance, planning, and treasury services. Sr Director | Mojave, CA Unknown |
| Director, USG Mission Demand Generation HawkEye 360 Responsible for developing and executing demand generation campaigns for USG missions, focusing on INDOPACOM and subordinate components. VP | Herndon, VA Onsite |
| Director, Contracts Management Ursa Major The Director, Contracts Management will lead contract management activities, serve as the lead contracts professional, and work closely with various teams. This role is part of the Legal Department and reports to the General Counsel. VP | Berthoud, Colorado Hybrid |
| Market Access & Development Director (LATAM) SpaceX Lead new market regulatory efforts, oversee business operations for existing markets, and identify new commercial opportunities for Starlink in the LATAM region. Director | Remote - FL Remote |
How classification gets to this category
Aerospace, Aviation & Defense classification follows the same multi-stage pipeline as every other category, with category-specific signal at three stages:
- Title recognition. Direct title hits resolve fast — common variants are recognized immediately, including the senior, VP, and Director-tier flavors.
- Compensation threshold. An exec-tier base-comp floor filters out individual-contributor roles that share the title language. Roles below the floor in unambiguous category titles are flagged for manual review rather than auto-classified.
- JD signals for ambiguous cases. GPT reads the JD for program-management authority, security-clearance signals, and government-customer focus. The classifier weighs program scope and contract responsibility heavily. See the AI Classification page for the full signal hierarchy.
Negative filters explicitly block adjacent IC and analyst roles whose titles can resemble executive ones. The result: Aerospace, Aviation & Defense as a category in your inbox is the executive cut, not the entry-level cut.
How matching works for your search
Matching on Aerospace, Aviation & Defense is conjunctive. Every dimension you add narrows the result set rather than expanding it.
Example: select Aerospace + VP-tier and above and you see Engineering VPs and Program leaders at primes and OEMs — your inbox shows the intersection, not the union. You won't see roles that match only one of the filters and not the other.
Tier filtering layers on top. If you only want VP-tier and above in this category, the seniority-tier filter does that cleanly. Restrict further to C-suite only to see the most senior seats, or open it up to Director-tier to widen the funnel during early-stage exploration.
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