Vice President of Sales

Job Title:  Vice President of Sales

 

Group or Division:  Sales and Marketing

 

Reports to:  CEO/President

 

General Description:                                                                                                                       

Dynamic Defense Holdings, LLC (DDH) is a high-tech, entrepreneurial company focused on developing and manufacturing solutions for defense and security that include transparent armor, body armor and a portable armored wall.  DDH is also developing optical solutions for harsh environment applications and advanced energetic materials for a variety of uses.  Our patented technology is based on material science.  DDM is fast-paced and rapidly growing within a culture of “Quality is Teamwork”.  We seek a highly motivated Vice President of Sales to lead us into the next level of performance as we complete the transition from Development to Sales and Manufacturing for base level technologies and further grow the company through new material science innovations.

 

DDH is seeking a Vice President of Sales reporting to the CEO, responsible for leading and executing the sales efforts for two of DDH’s leading products.

 

DiamondView™ is a high performance glass ceramic armor window system that provides scalable protection against all threats at lower weight and superior multi-hit protection.  DiamondView™ offers superior ballistic and blast protection at lower weight with far greater night vision transparency for NVG devices and lower life cycle costs. It has been qualified for multi-hit against advanced sniper and IED threats.  DiamondView™ is a breakthrough in armored windows, aimed at the following markets:

 

·         US DOD military vehicles, replacement and OEM windows for MRAPS, JLTV and other programs, sold through both the US DOD and US OEM’s, as well as world wide to allies and friends

·         Homeland Security vehicles

·         Private security applications

·         Private commercial vehicle up-armoring

·         Architectural applications

·         Aerospace/ships/helicopters

 

Evaloch™ is a portable armored wall system providing quick protection against ballistic and blast threats.  It is configurable for a variety of threats and missions.  Evaloch™ is the first innovation and improvement over sand bags in the history of war fighting in its target applications and use, such as robust mobile expeditionary check points, entry control points, observation points, sniper points, vehicular check points, and other security and observation posts needing protection against sniper, small arms and IED threats. It is easily transportable, can be set up by three soldiers in several minutes and moved from point to point in less than 20 minutes. It includes DiamondView™ windows in a gun port configuration allowing observation and ability to fire.

 

The successful candidate will work closely with active board members and advisors, the CEO, the VP Marketing, the VP of Applied Technology, professional sales and product specialists, and distributors and reps, both domestically and internationally.  Members of the board and advisors include General Scott Custer (RET) General Barry McCaffrey, (RET), Ms Sandy Charles, (former NSA advisor to Presidents Regan and Bush) Congressman Curt Weldon (RET Former Vice Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee).

 

The target community for DiamondView™ includes several US DOD facilities, where qualification and product development must be coordinated, including TACOM, TARDEC, ARL, REF, ATEC and others.  Customers also include OEM’s involved in MRAP and JLTV programs, among others, such as Boeing, Textron, Force Protection, GD, Oshkosh, International Truck and Engine, BAE, and others.

 

The target community for EVALOCH is primarily the US DOD, the Army, the Marines and others.

 

The successful candidate will have experience and insights and relationships in these communities and in these areas of technical and program and operating topics.  Ideally, the successful candidate will have senior field grade military experience coupled with industrial experience in these or related products and programs.

 

The compensation package starts with a competitive base salary coupled with attractive stock options and contingent compensation tied to performance.

 

DDH is a young company with a slate of technologies:

 

·         DiamondView Armor Products, LLC is a DDH joint venture with SCHOTT focused on transparent and other armor systems using glass ceramics in composite systems.

·         Dynamic Defense Materials, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary focused on Evaloch™, the portable armored wall, whose development was funded by the DOD, and where a fully articulated highly automated manufacturing facility has been qualified.

 

DDH has four other technologies in sister subsidiary operating companies focused on these technologies:

 

·         Advanced ceramic technology funded by the DOD aimed at replacing the current ESAPI with superior performance at similar weight and lower costs

·         Advanced optical switch technology aimed at enabling the use of optical switches in the uncontrolled environment for aerospace, defense, and telecom applications

·         Nano-sizing technology for hard and reactive metals, currently aimed at rocket motors, squibs, airbags, and chemical and ceramic precursor applications

·         Solar silicon technology                                                                 

                                                                                                                            The successful candidate will engage in travel and teamwork internally and externally with program, technical, military, agency, commercial and other organizational elements discussing and promoting our products and technology by discussing our specs, our performance, our testing certifications and results, our costs, configurations and capabilities, learning, evaluating and matching customer and market needs to our capabilities, selling internally as well as externally, helping and leading in planning at multiple levels including bookings, forecasting, sales, capacity, etc.

 

We are seeking a detail oriented person who is a rainmaker and a relationship builder, who can build trust and context in business relations both internally and externally, and who has a passion for taking products that can help our young men and woman represented in our military more effectively complete their missions less dangerously.