Government Relations Executive

Turning Space into a Transportation Layer for Earth

Inversion builds advanced reentry systems to deliver next-generation capabilities from space.

Our mission is to make Earth radically more accessible by turning Low-Earth Orbit into an on-demand logistics domain. We see space not as a destination, but as a platform — one that unlocks unprecedented speed and global reach.

Our spacecraft are designed to deliver payloads anywhere on Earth in under an hour, operating through extreme reentry conditions and landing with high precision. These systems open the door to new ways of testing, delivering, and operating at hypersonic speeds.

Inherently dual-use, our technology is built to meet urgent national security needs while laying the groundwork for future commercial applications. Backed by leading investors including Y Combinator, Spark Capital, and Lockheed Martin Ventures, and working with partners such as the U.S. Space Force and NASA, Inversion is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in space-based defense and logistics.

The Government Relations Executive will lead the company’s congressional engagement and federal government relations strategy.

We are open to considering candidates at the Director, Senior Director, or Vice President level. Final leveling will be based on the candidate’s experience, demonstrated scope and impact, depth of relevant relationships, leadership experience, and other applicable compensable factors.

This executive will serve as a trusted advisor to the Chief Executive Officer and senior leadership team on congressional priorities, defense authorization and appropriations, acquisition policy, federal budgets, and the political and programmatic factors affecting the company’s strategic objectives. The successful candidate will develop and execute integrated legislative strategies that protect and expand existing programs, support new business opportunities, shape relevant policy, and strengthen the company’s position within the national security community.

The ideal candidate will bring extensive, senior-level experience working in both chambers of Congress, including positions supporting the Senate Armed Services Committee and House Armed Services Committee. The candidate should possess deep relationships with congressional members and staff, Department of Defense leaders, military-service acquisition organizations, and other stakeholders.

• Develop and lead the company’s comprehensive federal government relations and congressional engagement strategy in alignment with corporate growth objectives and program priorities.
• Advise the CEO, executive leadership team, business-unit leaders, and program executives on congressional developments, defense budgets, acquisition policy, political dynamics, and legislative opportunities and risks.
• Design and execute legislative strategies supporting interceptors, integrated air and missile defense, hypersonic systems, and other advanced national security capabilities.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with members of Congress, professional and personal committee staff, congressional leadership, defense appropriators, relevant congressional delegations, and other key stakeholders.
• Lead engagement with the Senate Armed Services Committee, House Armed Services Committee, Senate and House Appropriations Committees, congressional leadership offices, and relevant member offices.
• Monitor, assess, and shape the National Defense Authorization Act, defense appropriations legislation, supplemental appropriations, committee reports, authorization and appropriations marks, and other legislation affecting the company’s programs and markets.
• Develop strategies to secure program…