Director of Federal Sales

Remote [within the US], DC Metro Area preferred

Active TS clearance required; TS/SCI highly desired.

We are seeking an experienced federal sales leader to serve as the senior commercial lead for Hidden Layer’s Department of War and Intelligence Community business. The Director, Federal Sales will own federal sales strategy, pipeline development, account growth, customer engagement, and partner management.

Hidden Layer protects the world’s most valuable technologies from adversarial AI attacks. We were founded by AI professionals and security specialists with first‑hand experience of how insidious adversarial AI attacks can be to detect and defend against. Determined to prove that these attacks were preventable, the team developed a unique, patent‑pending, productized solution to support organizations in accelerating their adoption of AI securely.

Our dedication to innovation has been recognized by prestigious awards such as RSA's Innovation Sandbox Winner, CB Insights AI 100, Cyber Tech 100, and SC's Most Promising Early‑Stage Start‑up.

• Own and execute Hidden Layer’s federal sales strategy for the Department of War, Intelligence Community, and related national security organizations.
• Serve as the senior sales leader and primary commercial point of contact for Hidden Layer’s federal business.
• Requalify and manage the existing federal pipeline, ensuring each opportunity has defined mission requirements, customer alignment, acquisition strategy, funding path, next steps, and close plan.
• Build and maintain a qualified pipeline of new federal opportunities through account planning, customer engagement, capture activities, and partner collaboration.
• Develop and maintain relationships with senior government stakeholders, including SES-level executives, program leaders, technical authorities, contracting officials, and acquisition decision-makers.
• Lead complex federal pursuits from initial engagement and qualification through capture, proposal, negotiation, award, and expansion.
• Develop account, opportunity, and capture strategies for priority agencies, programs, contracts, and mission areas.
• Manage and expand relationships with federal partners, including VARs, FSIs, systems integrators, distributors, and other strategic channel partners.
• Establish partner engagement plans and identify joint business opportunities that contribute to qualified pipeline and contract execution.
• Coordinate with internal teams to develop tailored proposals, presentations, demonstrations, briefings, white papers, and other acquisition materials.
• Maintain accurate opportunity data, account plans, close plans, and forecasts in Salesforce and Clari.
• Provide market intelligence and customer feedback to inform product strategy, positioning, pricing, and federal go-to-market priorities.
• Represent Hidden Layer at federal conferences, industry events, customer engagements, and partner forums.
• Support the recruitment, onboarding, coaching, and development of future federal sales team members.
• Travel approximately 10-25%, based on customer, partner, and business requirements.

• Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, computer science, engineering, or a related field preferred.
• 8+ years of successful federal sales, capture, or business development experience, preferably in cybersecurity, AI, software, or national security technology.
• Experience managing and improving a federal sales pipeline, including opportunity qualification, requalification, capture planning, forecasting, and executive reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to operate as a player-coach by generating revenue while establishing the processes and team structure needed to scale a federal sales organization.
• Existing relationships…