Full-Time

Director of Revenue Operations

Updated on 9/8/2026

Defense Unicorns

Defense Unicorns

201-500 employees

Secure DevSecOps platform for defense

Compensation Overview

$204k - $276k/yr

+ Equity

Remote in USA

Remote

Remote within the United States, with travel 4 to 12 times per year for sales training and participation activities.

Category
Sales & Account Management (1)
Required Skills
Kubernetes
Microsoft Azure
Forecasting
HubSpot
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Docker
AWS
Terraform
Google Workspace
DevOps
Data Analysis
Helm
Google Cloud Platform

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Requirements
  • At least 7 years of experience in revenue operations, sales operations, or business operations, ideally in Government Technology.
  • Hands-on experience with HubSpot Sales Hub and Operations Hub, including workflow automation, custom objects, and reporting.
  • A track record of establishing sales processes in high-growth companies with long, multi-stakeholder deal cycles.
  • Experience building pipeline models, forecasts, and leadership dashboards.
  • Deal desk or Configure, Price, Quote experience, including pricing and approval workflows.
  • Familiarity with a structured qualification methodology such as MEDDPICC and the discipline to implement it in the customer relationship management system.
  • Experience working cross-functionally with sales, finance, legal, and product.
  • Experience operating independently in a remote-first company with little hierarchy.
  • Background in defense technology, Government Technology, or selling to the United States Department of Defense.
  • Working knowledge of government procurement, including competitive solicitations, contract vehicles, Federal Acquisition Regulation, and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement.
  • Experience across direct and channel or partner sales.
  • Some exposure to solutions architecture or technical pre-sales.
Responsibilities
  • Own HubSpot as the primary administrator, including data integrity, pipeline hygiene, and adoption across the go-to-market team.
  • Maintain deal pipelines for direct opportunities, competitive solicitations, and renewals with consistent stages, required fields, and automation.
  • Manage integrations between HubSpot and surrounding tools, including Slack, Google Workspace, Notion, and LinkedIn Sales Navigator.
  • Maintain clean and usable deal data, including naming conventions, MEDDPICC qualification fields, dates, deal review board data, product feature tags, and annual recurring revenue calculations.
  • Run the quarterly forecast process between sellers and revenue leadership, and identify thin coverage and upside.
  • Maintain forecast models based on pipeline stage, probability of winning, deal velocity, and historical conversion rates.
  • Provide leadership with deal-level and portfolio-level analytics, including coverage ratios, pipeline aging, and win/loss patterns.
  • Identify pipeline and deal risk early.
  • Work with sales and solutions architecture leadership to document and improve the sales process from qualified opportunity through focused discovery, deal review board, scoping, proposal, and close.
  • Set up lead routing, territory and account assignment, and handoffs between sales and marketing.
  • Run the cadence for pipeline reviews, quarterly business reviews, and annual planning.
  • Support competitive solicitations through opportunity tracking, bid/no-bid analysis, and capture management.
  • Run deal desk operations covering pricing, discounting, contract structure, and approvals.
  • Maintain SKU-level pricing across UDS Premium, Application Licenses, Edge Node Licenses, Software Factory, Site Reliability Engineering Operations, Platform as a Service, and training and services.
  • Work with Finance on bookings recognition, annual recurring revenue tracking, and revenue reporting.
  • Improve customer relationship management adoption and data quality through training, documentation, and follow-through.
  • Build playbooks, templates, and automation to reduce busywork for sellers and solutions architects.
  • Onboard new revenue team members to the systems and processes.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience in a Government Technology environment.
  • Experience with product-led and open-source go-to-market models.
  • Exposure to solutions architecture or technical pre-sales.
  • A consulting or advisory background in management consulting, go-to-market or revenue operations advisory, a Big Four firm, or a boutique strategy firm.

Defense Unicorns provides secure, open-source DevSecOps solutions and related services for defense and federal customers. Its platform is designed to be infrastructure-agnostic, integrating development, security, and operations to deliver software quickly while meeting strict federal security and accreditation standards. The company differentiates itself by focusing on mission-driven government and defense programs, leveraging open-source tooling, and offering training and consulting to help organizations upskill, transform digitally, and navigate DoD SBIR/STTR programs. The goal is to help government agencies and defense contractors deliver secure software at speed, acquire and integrate software solutions efficiently, and achieve compliance in complex procurement environments.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$171.5M

Headquarters

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Founded

2021

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • On January 13, 2026, Bain led $136 million Series B at a $1 billion valuation.
  • On June 2, 2026, UDS Fleet expanded centralized software management to tactical edge systems.
  • UDS Army and Navy CANES work target faster approvals and deployment across critical programs.

What critics are saying

  • DittoLive sued Defense Unicorns on July 9, 2026, alleging trade secret theft in Georgia.
  • Federal revenue concentration leaves budget slips at the Navy or Army instantly painful.
  • A failed classified-environment deployment would cripple trust and freeze procurement across DoD.

What makes Defense Unicorns unique

  • UDS ships airgap-native software to ships, submarines, and classified DoD networks.
  • Defense Unicorns holds Navy CANES Next Gen, Army UDS, and Space Force contracts.
  • Lauren Knausenberger joined in 2026, pairing Air Force CIO credibility with go-to-market muscle.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

401(k) Company Match

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Paid Parental Leave

Home Office Stipend

Conference Attendance Budget

Professional Development Budget

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-6%

1 year growth

-6%

2 year growth

-8%
PR Newswire
Sep 2nd, 2026
Former Air Force CIO Lauren Knausenberger joins Defense Unicorns as Chief Business Officer

Defense Unicorns has appointed Lauren Knausenberger as chief business officer. Knausenberger brings decades of experience in technology advancement, digital transformation, and cybersecurity across government and defence environments. She will drive the company's growth strategy, strengthen strategic partnerships, and expand its impact across the defence ecosystem. Most recently, she served as executive vice president and chief innovation officer at SAIC, where she led strategy and AI-enabled transformation. Previously, Knausenberger was chief information officer of the Department of the Air Force, overseeing a technology portfolio valued at approximately $17 billion. She supported around 20,000 cyber operations personnel globally. Defense Unicorns, founded in 2021, builds airgap-native technologies for secure software delivery across defence environments.

Telecom Reseller
Jul 29th, 2026
Defense Unicorns, Paramify, partner.

Defense Unicorns, Paramify, partner. Defense Unicorns and Paramify are teaming up to help defense and government organizations move software through secure environments faster by combining software delivery automation with compliance automation. The companies announced a strategic partnership that integrates Paramify's compliance automation platform into Defense Unicorns' Unified Defense Stack (UDS), giving federal customers a more streamlined way to manage security requirements while deploying mission-critical software. For government technology partners, the announcement highlights a growing challenge across federal IT: helping agencies modernize faster while meeting strict security and compliance requirements. Traditionally, compliance processes have required significant manual effort and documentation before new capabilities can be deployed. By automating more of that work, Defense Unicorns and Paramify aim to help organizations maintain security controls while reducing delays that can slow down mission deployments. The partnership initially targets defense and federal use cases, including programs supporting organizations such as the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy. The companies said the combined offering will help customers maintain compliance across complex environments while allowing updates and new capabilities to move more quickly. For solution providers supporting federal customers, the partnership reflects a broader shift in government technology. As agencies push for faster software delivery, partners that can help customers navigate security, compliance and deployment requirements will play an increasingly important role.

PR Newswire
Jul 16th, 2026
US Navy advances Defense Unicorns to shipboard deployment phase for software evaluation

The US Navy has selected Defense Unicorns to advance to shipboard deployment phase under a Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic Other Transaction Agreement. The phase transitions from lab-based to at-sea operational evaluations aboard naval vessels and shore facilities. Defense Unicorns previously completed the CANES Next Generation prototype, demonstrating its Unified Defense Stack's ability to rapidly configure hardware and launch software in secure, airgap-native shipboard environments. The company's UDS Enterprise provides a secure platform for deploying software in air-gapped environments, whilst UDS Fleet enables infrastructure management across multiple deployed environments. Defense Unicorns is a veteran-owned defence technology company founded in 2021 by Rob Slaughter, Jeff McCoy, and Andrew Greene. Its technology is used by the US Navy, Army, Air Force, and Space Force.

Intelligence Community News
Jun 3rd, 2026
Defense Unicorns launches UDS Fleet.

Defense Unicorns launches UDS Fleet. 0 Comments On June 2, Defense Unicorns, provider of airgap-native software delivery for national security missions, announced the launch of UDS Fleet, a purpose-built product within the Unified Defense Stack (UDS) platform designed to solve one of defense's most persistent challenges: deploying and managing software at scale across distributed systems operating on the front lines. UDS Fleet is built for mission operators managing dispersed fleets of tactical systems in complex, contested environments. By replacing fragmented, manual processes with centralized fleet management, operators gain the clarity and control needed to maintain operational readiness at speed and scale. "The way defense software gets deployed and managed hasn't kept pace with the speed of modern missions. UDS Fleet changes that at the edge. We're giving mission operators a clear, practical path to manage secure software across distributed systems, whether they're in a data center or operating in the most contested environments on the planet. This is about giving the people who defend this nation the tools they need to move fast and win," said Dr. Rob Slaughter, CEO, Defense Unicorns UDS Fleet is part of the broader Unified Defense Stack platform, which also includes UDS Enterprise - designed for platform engineers and cybersecurity teams managing cloud and on-premises data center environments. The two products are designed to work together, with UDS Fleet extending secure software delivery out to the edge as an organization's operational footprint grows. "UDS Fleet reflects our commitment to delivering software that is secure by design, operationally resilient, and built for the realities of modern defense missions. We're replacing complexity with clarity, from the data center to the tactical edge," added Slaughter. Like IC News? Then please consider subscribing. You'll get full access to its searchable library of 10,000+ articles, plus new articles each weekday.

PR Newswire
Jun 2nd, 2026
Defense Unicorns launches UDS Fleet for tactical edge software management

Defense Unicorns has launched UDS Fleet, a product designed to manage software deployment across distributed defense systems at the tactical edge. The platform gives mission operators centralised visibility and control over dispersed tactical systems in contested environments. UDS Fleet comprises two capabilities: Fleet Connect, which allows operators to manage software on individual systems via Android and browser-based apps, and Fleet Command, which provides unified fleet-wide visibility. The product complements UDS Enterprise for data centre environments. The San Antonio-based company serves all US military branches across over 80 mission systems. Defense Unicorns holds a $300 million Department of Defense contract for software and GenAI solutions in classified environments, plus a $15 million Space Force contract for launch range modernisation.