Business Development Lead - Middle East

CHAOS Industries is redefining modern defense with a multi-product portfolio that gives the ultimate advantage—domain dominance. The company's products are powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™), empowering warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams to act faster, adapt rapidly, and stay ahead of evolving threats. 

CHAOS Industries was founded in 2022 and has raised a total of $1 billion in funding from leading investors, including 8VC, Accel, and Valor Equity Partners. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, and London. For more information, please visit www.chaosinc.com.

• →Expand CHAOS’ Middle East pipeline by identifying business opportunities and trends across regional armed forces, ministries of defence, procurement and offset authorities, and local industry– with particular focus on the UAE, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the wider Gulf region. This includes continuous opportunity monitoring through active networking on the ground.
• →Provide insights into market dynamics and the regional competitor landscape, which contributes to opportunity qualification, teaming determination and narrative development.
• →Qualify business opportunities and evaluate attractiveness and probability of win.
• →Partner with BD and capture leadership to develop comprehensive capture plans at the strategic (pipeline-wide) and tactical (opportunity-specific) levels that align with business priorities and growth targets.
• →Partner with CHAOS government affairs and legal function to ensure that compliance with US government export procedures and licensing are facilitated and adhered to.
• →Partner with CHAOS government affairs for effective engagement of the Washington-based diplomatic community and US security cooperation agencies.
• →Attend customer meetings, industry days, conferences, exercises and trade shows across the Middle East (e.g., IDEX, World Defense Show, Dubai Airshow, SOFEX), and act as CHAOS’ ambassador to the customer and the customer’s ambassador back to CHAOS.

• Translate Middle East customer priorities into capability needs that inform engineering priorities.
• Participate in engineering planning sessions to ensure product development efforts are aligned to customer needs.

• Serve as the Middle East lead on proposals, market research, and white papers that support capturing regional business.

• Ideally based in the UAE, with other Middle East locations (including Jordan, leveraging CHAOS’ existing operational nodes) considered.
• Heavy travel (typically 50%, with flexibility for higher travel periods) to customer sites across the Gulf states, Jordan and the wider region, plus periodic trips to our Los Angeles HQ, DC and London office.

• Health Benefits: private medical, dental and vision benefits (for employees & dependents) will be 100% paid for by the company
• Additional benefits: 5% pension match
• Compensation Components: competitive base salaries, generous pre-IPO stock option grants, relocation assistance + (coming soon!) annual bonuses
• Team Growth: 250 employees and counting across 5 global offices

The stated compensation range reflects only the targeted base compensation range and excludes additional earnings such as bonus, equity, and benefits. If your compensation requirements fall outside of the range, we still encourage you to apply. The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. 

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