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title: 'Growth Lead, Space Force at Thread AI'
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# Growth Lead, Space Force at Thread AI

- **Company:** Thread AI
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-10-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/thread-ai/6a4f8637-9972-46c6-8f68-95ef6e022a13

## Job description

## About Thread AI

Thread AI is focused on building an AI orchestration engine and is looking for dedicated individuals to join its growing team. Our goal is to make infrastructure simple for enterprises and public sector agencies seeking to get the most from AI and AI Agents. Headquartered in New York, our growing team is a group of experts who have a track record of creating and executing against complex workflows and infrastructure.

## About the role

You will develop a Space Force portfolio for Lemma, Thread AI’s AI workflow orchestration platform. Your focus will be mission-data analysis and space-operations workflows where teams need to connect information, models and existing systems. You will own a focused portfolio within the Space Force, with the initial accounts and mission areas agreed with Thread’s federal leadership before you start. You will develop adjacent opportunities as you identify where Lemma can help. You will carry a bookings target for your portfolio. This is an individual contributor role: you own daily pursuits through award, coordinating technical and commercial contributors. Contract delivery owns execution after award; you retain the commercial relationship and expansion responsibility.

- Build relationships across national-security-space operations and acquisition. Establish how a proposed workflow fits existing mission systems and who can fund its adoption after evaluation.
- Build pipeline from a focused account list. Qualify the need, funding, buying path and next customer decision.
- Shape opportunities early, choose acquisition and teaming paths, and connect evaluations to follow-on buyers and budgets.
- Own capture plans and proposals. Write the commercial case and coordinate technical, pricing and legal contributions.
- Lead discovery and initial Lemma demonstrations. Plan deeper evaluations with technical support and agree on success criteria and delivery capacity.
- Lead negotiations and close funded awards within your delegated authority. Develop expansion opportunities from evidence of customer results.
- Maintain an accurate forecast and hand delivery a clear record of scope, assumptions and customer commitments.

## What we’re looking for

- Five or more years owning growth, business development or sales to US defense customers, with responsibility for a revenue target. We consider equivalent experience demonstrating the same commercial ownership.
- Funded software or technology awards you personally helped originate and win. You can explain the buyer, obligated funding and your contribution.
- Deep knowledge and current customer relationships within at least one relevant part of the Space Force, such as a mission area, command, program office or acquisition organization. Show how those relationships have helped you advance software buying decisions. Relevant Air Force space experience counts; Space Force service is not required.
- Working knowledge of national-security-space software acquisition and budgeting, including how technical evaluations, mission integration and operational acceptance affect a purchase.
- Evidence that you built pipeline and independently led pursuits through capture, proposals and award.
- Clear writing and product judgment. Explain AI workflows and their limits to customers, and turn a conversation into an actionable pursuit plan.

Relevant backgrounds include defense-software Growth or BD and strategic federal sales. Military, government and technical program experience is welcome alongside the commercial experience above. Previous people management is not required.

Nice to haves

- Experience winning awards through an OTA, CSO, SBIR Phase II or III, or BAA.
- Space operations, intelligence or acquisition experience paired with commercial software wins.
- Experience selling mission-data, sensing, analytical or command-and-control software in the national-security-space market.
- Experience as an early seller at a software startup, building a territory before a mature sales process existed.
- A record of moving a prototype or research effort into funded operational use and expanding into adjacent accounts.

## Why Thread AI

You will work directly with federal leadership and the team building Lemma. You will develop a defined portfolio and help establish how Thread sells to federal customers. What you learn in pursuits and evaluations will inform the product. We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. So regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, or age, we encourage you to apply! Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role and the company but your past experience doesn’t align with every qualification, we still encourage you to apply anyway - we’d love to get to know you and see if there’s a place for you at Thread!

## Compensation

The annual base pay range is $180,000-$250,000. Total on-target earnings are $280,000-$400,000, including base and variable pay, plus equity. An active U.S. Secret security clearance or higher is preferred, but not required. Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national or U.S. lawful, permanent resident. This is a full-time, remote position based in the United States. Washington, DC area preferred. Travel: Up to 50%.

## About Thread AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Thread AI builds Lemma, a composable AI orchestration infrastructure and workflow platform that enables enterprises to safely deploy governed, reliable AI agents in mission-critical operations.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed + Series A funding)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Angela McNeal (CEO) and Mayada Gonimah (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI infrastructure / enterprise software
- **Target customers**: Regulated industries, Fortune 500 enterprises, public sector agencies, and any organization running business‑critical processes that require audit, control, and reliability.
- **Mission**: Bridge the gap between powerful AI models and production operations by providing controlled autonomy – letting AI agents act independently within clearly defined operational boundaries.

## Products & Services
- **Lemma** – A composable AI orchestration infrastructure and workflow builder. Key features include:
  - Drag‑and‑drop workflow builder plus code‑first SDK and API access (REST, gRPC, GraphQL, SFTP).
  - Built‑in security and governance: SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA, GDPR, CJIS compliance; AES‑256 encryption at rest, TLS in transit; PII redaction; full audit trails.
  - Glass‑box observability with complete traceability for every agent decision and system access.
  - Dynamic workflow planning and execution supporting non‑deterministic, multi‑step agentic paths.
  - Human‑in‑the‑loop guardrails for critical decision points.
  - Deployment flexibility: VPC, on‑premises, or multi‑tenant SaaS.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$26M** across two rounds
- **Notable Investors/Partners**:
  - Seed round (Oct 2024): $6M led by **Index Ventures** (5 investors)
  - Series A (Jul 2025): $20M led by **Greycroft** (6 investors)
  - Additional seed investor in 2023
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew **+75% YoY** to 24 employees.
  - LinkedIn followers grew **+191% year‑over‑year** (3,213 followers).
  - Powering production AI in Fortune 500 operations and public sector agencies.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founding team** – Former Heads of AI/ML Product and Engineering at Palantir Technologies, bringing deep experience deploying large‑scale data systems in the world’s most demanding environments.
- **“Controlled Autonomy” architecture** – Enables autonomous agents to operate within defined guardrails, satisfying both builder flexibility and enterprise compliance.
- **Enterprise‑grade compliance out‑of‑the‑box** – SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA, GDPR, CJIS – no need to retrofit governance later.
- **Vendor‑agnostic composability** – Connects existing systems without replacing them (REST, gRPC, GraphQL, SFTP, SDKs).
- **Glass‑box observability** – Every workflow versioned, traced, and audit‑ready from first deployment.

## Strategic Focus
- Safely deploying AI in regulated environments where failure has real business consequences.
- Reducing infrastructure complexity so builders can prototype and productionize on a single platform without rebuilding.
- Maintaining strict data control: customers own their data and agents; no vendor lock‑in.

## Why Work Here
- **Founding story** – Built by AI leaders who left Palantir to solve one of AI’s hardest problems: reliable, governed deployment of agents.
- **Engineering culture** – Emphasizes “deep work, engineering excellence, and solving real‑world enterprise challenges.”
- **Growth trajectory** – Rapidly growing (24 employees, +75% YoY) with strong investor backing; early hires have significant impact.
- **Location & flexibility** – Office in New York, NY. Roles listed for New York; not explicitly remote/hybrid but open positions span engineering, sales, operations.
- **Notable perks** – Engineering‑first environment, opportunity to shape the infrastructure layer for enterprise AI.

## Sources
1. [threadai.com – Platform page](https://www.threadai.com/platform)
2. [threadai.com – Company page](https://www.threadai.com/company)
3. [linkedin.com – Thread AI Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/thread-ai)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com – Open positions at Thread AI](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/thread-ai)

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