Mission Success Lead, US

Rowden is one of Europe's fastest-growing companies, building operational edge systems for defense, national security, and emergency response teams.
 
Veteran-founded in the UK in 2017, we turn advances in AI, sensing, and communications into practical capability for environments where connectivity is limited, degraded, or denied. Our focus is on getting useful technology into the hands of frontline teams faster, improving decision-making, and protecting people and critical assets. 

We've grown to more than 200 employees, with a strong track record delivering critical programs for the UK Ministry of Defence and other national security customers. Alongside this, we're developing our own export-focused hardware and software products across RF and fleet management. 
 
In 2026, Rowden secured £25 million from the UK's National Wealth Fund to accelerate growth across the UK and internationally. 

We're now building on strong customer and partner traction in the United States, and this role will be part of Rowden's founding US team. 

About the role 

Rowden was founded with a core value to focus on the end user. As we enter the US, we want someone who genuinely backs that ambition: someone who loves our products, believes they can deliver real value for the US operational community, and wants to bring them something genuinely differentiated from a company whose values align with theirs. 

The Rowden Mission Success Lead, US, exists to represent the US operational community and convert this engagement into revenue: generating leads, running demos and trainings, supporting exercises, and building advocacy for Rowden’s products among the users who need it. You will be the Rowden representative on the ground that end users trust, and the one who translates what they need into evidence Rowden can act on. This is a founding commercial role, made for someone entrepreneurial who wants a career-defining challenge with significant upside. Alongside your mission success remit, you take on operational responsibility for building Rowden’s US business as part of the founding team, including supporting hiring, facilities, and compliance processes. 

Your initial focus will be introducing Rowden’s electromagnetic portfolio to US operational users, building the relationships, evidence and demand needed to establish it in the market. Our first product has won industry recognition and is already attracting export interest in Europe, with a wider set of connected, coordinated capabilities to follow. You’ll also scale up our fleet management platform for edge systems across defence and other critical sectors.

You will report directly to UK leadership, working across customer success, business development and product development teams. You will partner closely with Rowden's VP Growth, US, feeding field insight into qualified opportunities.  

We are looking for a recent veteran who has been an end user of EW systems, comms, or related deployed technology. Ideally you will have worked as both an operator and requirements or technology portfolio lead inside a PAE, such that you understand how user need becomes a requirement, and how a requirement becomes a budget line. 

Our compensation packages are highly competitive and structured to create meaningful upside for strong performance.

Ideally you'll already be based within North Carolina or be willing to relocate for this opportunity.