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Aerospace & Defense Industry Manager

🇺🇸 Natick, MA 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $145K - $231K 💻 Marketing 🗓️ May 5th, 2026

Edtech.com's Summary

MathWorks is hiring an Aerospace & Defense Industry Manager to drive industry strategy and customer engagement within the Aerospace & Defense sector in the Americas. The role involves collaborating with Sales, Product teams, and customers to advance MATLAB and Simulink adoption across complex aerospace programs, shaping product direction and messaging based on deep industry expertise and customer insights.

Highlights
  • Lead the definition and execution of Aerospace & Defense industry strategy for the Americas.
  • Identify customer challenges and emerging technologies impacting aerospace workflows.
  • Develop reusable industry guidance and messaging for account teams.
  • Enable Sales and Services teams with tailored industry context and strategy.
  • Drive adoption of MATLAB and Simulink in digital engineering, MBSE, autonomous systems, and certification workflows.
  • Act as liaison between customers, account teams, and Product Development to influence product roadmaps.
  • Synthesize customer feedback on technologies like MBSE, autonomy, V&V, and AI for product planning.
  • Require bachelor's degree plus 10 years of experience or equivalent.
  • Prefer strong Aerospace & Defense background, experience with Sales teams, and advanced degrees (engineering or MBA).
  • Require experience with MATLAB, Simulink, digital engineering, and familiarity with DO-178, DO-254 compliance standards is a plus.

Aerospace & Defense Industry Manager Full Description

Aerospace & Defense Industry Manager


Job Summary
MathWorks is seeking a senior industry professional to join the Aerospace & Defense (AeroDef) Industry Marketing team in the Americas. This role works as part of a collaborative regional team, where Industry Managers each own and deliver impact within defined business and application areas, while partnering closely with Sales, Customer-Facing Engineering, Product teams, and fellow Industry Managers to help customers successfully apply MATLAB and Simulink across complex, regulated AeroDef programs. By combining deep industry expertise with strong knowledge of MathWorks products, the role shapes industry strategy, messaging, and product direction, enabling teams across MathWorks to operate more consistently and effectively in the evolving Aerospace & Defense landscape.

Responsibilities

1. Architect MathWorks’ Engagement Model for the AeroDef Market

  • Lead and contribute to the definition and execution of the Aerospace & Defense industry strategy for the Americas with the Industry Field Team leadership team.
  • Identify recurring customer challenges, adoption barriers, and maturity gaps, as well as new technologies (such as AI) impacting customer workflows and use those insights to shape how MathWorks engages with AeroDef customers at scale.
  • Develop, test and refine reusable industry guidance, messaging, and content that help account teams address enterprise‑scale digital engineering, lifecycle continuity across development and deployment through sustainment.

2. Enable Account Teams with AeroDef Industry Strategy

  • Enable Sales and Services teams with industry context, messaging, and strategic framing for complex AeroDef programs.
  • Work directly with account teams to tailor this positioning to specific customers and programs while reinforcing consistent, reusable engagement approaches. 
  • Drive adoption of MATLAB and Simulink within customer initiatives such as digital engineering and MBSE at scale, software‑defined and autonomous systems, and verification, validation, certification, and sustainment workflows.

3. Influence Product Direction Through Applied Industry Insight

  • Serve as a bridge between AeroDef customers, account teams, and MathWorks Product Development teams to influence product roadmaps.
  • Synthesize customer feedback and usage patterns across key technologies and workflows (such as MBSE, digital engineering, autonomy, V&V and agentic AI) into actionable input for product planning and long‑term technology direction.

Minimum Qualifications
  • A bachelor's degree and 10 years of professional work experience (or equivalent experience) is required.

Additional Qualifications
  • Strong background in the Aerospace & Defense industry.
  • Experience working effectively with Sales teams and engaging with customers in complex, multi‑stakeholder environments.
  • Advanced degree in an engineering discipline and/or MBA.
  • Experience with MATLAB, Simulink, or comparable multi‑domain modeling and simulation tools.
  • Familiarity with digital engineering, MBSE, or system‑centric development approaches.
  • Experience in DO-178, DO-254, or other compliance standards is a plus