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Vice President, Commercial Growth & Strategy

AIS (Applied Information Sciences) · Reston, VA · 2 mo ago
Business Development$192k–$289k/yrFull-time

Job Overview

AIS is scaling its Commercial business and maturing its growth model. This role offers the opportunity to shape how growth actually works, not just this quarter, but over time by strengthening leadership, aligning sales and delivery, and building a commercial engine that clients and team's trust.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own and deliver commercial revenue targets, with a strong focus on new logo acquisition

  • Build and maintain a healthy, high-quality pipeline with consistent coverage

  • Drive deal progression, conversion, and expansion

  • Personally engage in strategic client conversations and critical deals when it matters

  • Lead Business Development Executives (hunters), Account Executives (farmers), and Sales Operations

  • Establish clear coverage models, quotas, and account strategies

  • Build a high-performance sales culture grounded in accountability, clarity, and trust

  • Ensure consistent pipeline generation and disciplined execution across the team

  • Act as a coach and thought partner to sales and commercial leaders

  • Develop leaders who can operate independently and confidently, not just follow direction

  • Foster a culture of learning, ownership, and continuous improvement

  • Translate market opportunity into clear, executable GTM plays

  • Focus commercial effort on priority industries and target accounts

  • Continuously refine strategy based on pipeline data, delivery input, client feedback, and results

  • Bring prior delivery, P&L, or services leadership experience to growth decisions

  • Shape solutions, pricing, and scope that set delivery teams up for success

  • Anticipate delivery risk early and help design sustainable, trust-based client commitments

  • Partner closely with Service Delivery leadership to align growth, capacity, and quality

  • Help resolve tradeoffs between ambition and feasibility with shared accountability

  • Strengthen collaboration across sales, delivery, and the CTO’s horizontal technology solution teams

  • Lead with a “One AIS” mindset - driving collaboration, enabling team success, and ensuring growth is aligned with delivery excellence

  • Establish strong pipeline management, forecasting, and deal review rigor (clear standards, inspection, and follow-through)

  • Drive weekly, monthly, and quarterly commercial pipeline cadence

  • Improve visibility, predictability, and execution consistency across the business

Required For This Opportunity

  • 15+ years of experience in IT services, consulting, or technology-enabled services

  • Proven track record owning and delivering meaningful revenue targets

  • Experience leading enterprise sales organizations and senior leaders

  • Demonstrated strength in coaching and elevating leaders, with a focus on long-term development and capability building

  • Experience leading or closely partnering with services delivery teams, with accountability for outcomes

  • Hands-on experience shaping, pricing, and closing complex deals

  • Strongly Preferred: Prior P&L ownership spanning both growth and delivery

  • Prior experience building and executing Microsoft co-sell motions (field alignment, partner-led pipeline, and joint account planning)

  • Experience building industry-led or solution-led go-to-market motions

  • Managing@AIS: Responsibilities include Coaching, Career Development, Performance Management, Accountability and Results, and Promotions and Compensation.

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