US Field Marketing Manager

Advanced Navigation is the world’s most determined innovator in AI robotics and navigation technologies across land, air, sea and space applications. Founded on a culture of research and discovery, Advanced Navigation's mission is to be the catalyst of the autonomy revolution. Fields of expertise include artificial intelligence, underwater sonar, GNSS, radio frequency systems, inertial sensors, robotics, quantum sensors and photonics.

Today, Advanced Navigation is a supplier to some of the world's largest companies, including Airbus, Boeing, Google, Tesla, NASA, Apple, and General Motors. Discover it for yourself:


Overview of Role

Advanced Navigation is a global leader in precision navigation and inertial navigation systems, delivering high performance PNT solutions across defense, aerospace, marine, mining, and autonomous systems. Our products operate in the world's most demanding environments, and our field marketing must match that standard.

We are looking for a highly organized, execution focused Field Marketer to join our Americas team based in Huntsville. This is a fast-paced role focused on event delivery, requiring rigorous attention to detail. You are responsible for bringing the Advanced Navigation brand to life through exceptional customer experiences at trade shows, regional events, site visits, roadshows, and product demonstrations.

The role has a primary focus on the defense sector, supporting engagement with defense primes, government agencies, and system integrators across the United States. You are someone who takes genuine pride in how things are run: every event well executed, every demonstration well prepared, every customer interaction thoughtfully considered.

Advanced Navigation is proud of its employment of veterans and strongly encourages veterans to apply. The deep understanding of the customer, the operating environment, and the mission that comes with military service is exactly what this role demands.

This role reports jointly to the Americas Regional Head and the Global Event Marketing Manager in Sydney, and operates as part of a globally coordinated field marketing function that drives Advanced Navigation's presence across APAC, Americas, and EMEA.

Roles & Responsibilities

Sales Enablement, Field Execution

  • Work directly with regional Sales and Business Development teams to support deals through targeted field marketing activity
  • Coordinate with sales to support customer site visits, product demonstrations, and capability briefings with key accounts and prospects
  • Develop and maintain regional sales enablement materials in collaboration with the Product Marketing and Content teams
  • Support account based engagement by providing marketing led touchpoints at key stages of the sales cycle
  • Gather and relay field intelligence, customer feedback, competitive observations, buying signals, back to the central marketing and product teams

Regional Events & Roadshows

  • Plan, coordinate, and execute Americas trade events, exhibitions, and roadshows in close collaboration with the Global Event Marketing Manager
  • Manage Advanced Navigation's presence at flagship regional events including AUSA Annual, Sea Air Space, DSEI Americas, and regional defense and industrial trade events
  • Oversee all event logistics including booth management, shipping, contractor coordination, on site operations and budget management
  • Oversee end to end regional marketing inventory, including the procurement and tracking of non-functional products, printed collateral and branded merchandise
  • Develop pre and post event outreach campaigns in coordination with the Digital and Content teams to maximize lead generation and follow up
  • Track and report event performance metrics including attendance, lead quality, pipeline contribution, and cost per engagement
  • Execute on-site content capture for company social media channels, ensuring all photography and video align with pre-determined brand guidelines and content strategies

Customer Demonstrations

  • Coordinate and deliver compelling product demonstrations, live, virtual, and at customer sites, that translate product capability into operational value
  • Work with Sales and Application Engineering to develop standardized demonstration formats tailored to key customer segments and use cases
  • Work with CS&S to manage demonstration equipment, logistics, and scheduling across the region
  • Continuously improve demonstration quality based on customer feedback and field outcomes

Regional Market Presence

  • Build and maintain relationships with key regional stakeholders including US defense primes, government program offices, industry associations, and technology integrators
  • Identify regional engagement opportunities, events, associations, and partner activities, that align to the regional plan and flag recommendations to the Regional Head for approval
  • Represent the Advanced Navigation brand with professionalism and technical credibility across all field interactions
  • Coordinate with global marketing on regional campaign localization and timing

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or a related discipline

Experience

  • Minimum 5 years in field marketing, events marketing, or sales enablement in a B2B technology, defense, or industrial environment
  • Proven track record coordinating trade events and exhibitions end to end, including budget management, logistics, and post event reporting
  • Experience coordinating customer demonstrations and technical capability briefings
  • Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across sales, marketing, and product teams in a geographically distributed organization
  • Experience operating within or marketing to US defense, government, or industrial sectors is strongly preferred

Skills, Mandatory

  • Strong organizational and project management skills, able to run multiple events and activities in parallel with discipline and pace
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, confident engaging with senior stakeholders, technical audiences, and customer teams
  • Exceptional attention to detail, nothing is too small when it comes to getting the customer experience right, from event logistics to follow up communications
  • Strong time management and prioritization, able to juggle multiple concurrent activities without dropping the ball on any of them
  • Proficiency in CRM (Salesforce preferred), marketing automation (Hubspot), and event management tools

Skills, Nice to Have

  • Technical qualifications or demonstrated technical literacy in navigation, sensing, robotics, or related fields is advantageous
  • Familiarity with defense procurement processes, acquisition programs, or government sales cycles
  • Prior experience in navigation, sensing, autonomy, or embedded systems contexts
  • Security clearance eligibility or existing clearance is advantageous
  • Prior military service or direct experience with defense forces, capability managers, or deployed operational environments is highly regarded

Key Measurables

Pipeline Contribution

  • Volume and quality of marketing sourced and marketing influenced leads generated through field activity
  • Contribution to opportunity creation and stage progression within regional accounts
  • Measurable return on investment from events, roadshows, and demonstration programs

Event & Program Execution

  • On time, on budget delivery of all regional events, roadshows, and customer engagements
  • Post event lead follow up rate and CRM input quality
  • Stakeholder satisfaction from regional Sales and Business Development teams

Field Intelligence & Feedback

  • Regular, structured reporting of field insights to central marketing and product teams
  • Demonstrated contribution to positioning improvements, campaign adjustments, or product feedback loops based on direct customer observations

Operational Excellence

  • Accurate tracking of regional marketing spend and event budgets
  • Proactive communication with the Global Event Marketing Manager on planning, execution, and reporting
  • Contribution to global marketing planning cycles and performance reporting

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