Role Overview
VP, Advanced Technology Commercialization (Technology & Advanced Development) will transition Voyager’s advanced technology capabilities into market-ready products and commercial opportunities. This role serves as the primary conduit between the Advanced Technology Development group and Voyager’s operating business lines—bridging the gap between novel technical capabilities and the products, platforms, and services that generate business value.
Responsibilities
- Identify and Shape Commercialization Opportunities: Evaluate the external market potential of novel capabilities developed within the Advanced Technology Development group. Determine when a capability remains internal, becomes embedded, or emerges as a standalone product, platform, service, licensed technology, or new business line.
- Foment Product Development with Engineering Teams: Work with advanced engineering teams to translate early-stage capabilities into defined, buildable products. Set product requirements, define customer use cases, set scope boundaries, and maintain the roadmap from prototype to commercial-grade offering.
- Build a Commercialization Pipeline: Define the process for moving emerging capabilities from concept to commercial launch, including opportunity identification, prioritization, business case development, willingness-to-pay validation, pilot launches, and scale.
- Drive Build/Partner/Buy/Monetize Decisions: Determine when Voyager should build internally, partner for speed or distribution, buy to close a gap, or halt work due to weak external business cases.
- Develop Business Cases and Secure Investment: Build rigorous business cases for each priority opportunity—defining external customers, market size, competitive landscape, product form, pricing model, required investment, go-to-market path, and success metrics—and present to CTO and executive leadership for resource commitment.
- Forge Customer and Partner Relationships: Engage directly with external customers, strategic partners, government agencies, and commercial enterprises to validate demand, shape requirements, and establish early commercial relationships. Serve as the commercial face of the Advanced Technology Development group’s portfolio.
Basic Qualifications
- Technology Translation: Demonstrated ability to work with highly technical teams and translate their work into actionable external value propositions for customers, partners, and investors. Fluency in AI, software, systems engineering, and advanced hardware to identify real commercial leverage.
- Commercialization and Product Judgment: Proven track record of converting technical capabilities into monetizable products, platform services, or licensed offerings. Experience building business cases from early-stage ideas and making disciplined decisions on scaling, partnering, pausing, or spinning out.
- Go-to-Market Execution: Experience taking emerging technology from capability to paying customer, including discovery, segmentation, definition, pricing, pilot design, and launch.
- Executive Influence and Cross-Functional Leadership: Ability to drive decisions across a complex organization without direct authority. Build trust with engineering, strategy, and external customers, creating commercial opportunity rather than just pushing technology.
- Market and Domain Awareness: Sufficient knowledge of defense, space, and national security markets, including procurement, commercial adoption, and customer buying behavior. Think about mission assurance, dual-use potential, and program-of-record pathways.
- Security Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA or advanced degree in a relevant technical or business discipline.
- Experience launching or scaling technology products or platforms into aerospace, defense, or dual-use markets.
- Familiarity with AI and agentic workflow systems and how they are packaged, priced, and adopted in high-trust operational environments.
- Experience with government acquisition, proposal, and capture processes.
- Prior experience at a high-growth technology company, defense prime, or within a technology commercialization or venture role within a complex enterprise.
- Active U.S. Top Secret Security Clearance.
Travel and Physical Requirements
- Travel up to 25%, including possibility of overnight stays.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Clearance.
Compensation and Benefits
The good faith base salary range for this role is $200,000–$300,000 (depending on experience, skills, and location). This range reflects base salary only and does not include benefits or bonus/incentive plans. The position is incentive plan eligible.
Voyager offers a highly competitive total compensation package, including:
- Flexible Time Off (FTO) to support work-life balance.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
- Flexible, affordable gym memberships and wellness programs.
- 401(k) retirement plan with a 50% company match up to 8% of contributions.
- Additional voluntary benefits and employee support resources.
- Opportunity to work with a highly talented team in an innovative, mission-driven environment.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Voyager is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.
Applicants for this position must be a U.S. Person (U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual) and must be eligible to obtain any required export authorizations from the U.S. Department of State or the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran
The statements contained in this job description are intended to describe the general content and requirements for the performance of this job. This description is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, or requirements and is not an employment agreement or contract. Management has the exclusive right to alter the scope of work within this framework at any time without prior notice.
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