Export Control Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Fictiv Exists to Enable Hardware Innovators to Build Better Products, Faster

Fictiv exists
to help product innovators create.

Fictiv is a global manufacturing and supply chain company that enables organizations to scale globally across Fictiv's four global manufacturing centers in India, Mexico, China, and the U.S.. Companies use Fictiv to access high-quality production, optimize supply chain logistics, and mitigate supply chain risk—ensuring they can move from prototype to full-scale manufacturing with speed and confidence. To date, Fictiv has delivered more than 35 million commercial and prototype parts for industries such as aerospace, robotics, automotive, climate tech, and more, helping them innovate faster, free up precious resources, and drive profitable growth.

As Fictiv's Export Control Manager, you will define, optimize, and maintain end-to-end processes for Fictiv's regulated services offerings. Your focus will be on ensuring compliance with export-controlled regulations, NIST 800-171, and CMMC frameworks, while enabling our teams to deliver excellence at scale.

You will partner closely with leadership, technology, legal, sales, and operations teams to design workflows that are secure, compliant, and efficient. You will also help us expand capabilities in supporting export-controlled applications and develop systems certified to increasing CMMC compliance levels.

Areas of Responsibility

Define, document, and maintain business processes for export-controlled and federally-funded projects.

Act as a cross-functional driver across Technology, Legal, Sales, Operations, Quality, and Finance for export-controlled and federally-funded projects.

Where applicable, compliance with NIST 800-171, EAR, ITAR, and CMMC requirements, embedding security best practices into processes and policies.

Project manage cross-functional initiatives related to regulated services, export control, and information security.

Lead process audits and gap analyses; identify risks and implement secure, compliant solutions.

Develop and deliver training for internal and external stakeholders on regulated service workflows and system usage.

Build data dashboards and KPIs to track compliance, project health, and continuous improvement effectiveness.

Drive continuous improvement initiatives, leveraging Lean, Six Sigma, or Agile methodologies.

Lead change management efforts to ensure smooth adoption of new systems and policies.

Travel : Ability to travel up to 20% annually

All employees are expected to maintain and contribute to the QMS.

Desired Traits, Qualifications, Education and Experience Equivalency

4+ years in a process engineering or project management role within regulated industries.

Direct experience designing and maintaining workflows in high information-security environments (e.g., export-controlled, government contracts).

Experience working with and developing processes for how to manage information security for technical data that is controlled under EAR or ITAR.

Experience developing or managing CMMC Level-certified systems and workflows.

3+ years leading continuous improvement initiatives, including business analysis and process optimization.

Must be a U.S. Person in compliance with U.S. ITAR regulations.

Strong experience in cross-functional collaboration and live stakeholder training.

Experience with manufacturing, supply chain, or regulated services environments required.

Excellent leadership, project management, and communication skills.

Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, with a security-first mindset.

Excellent communicator—able to simplify and visualize complex workflows.

Experience rallying teams around compliance and process discipline.

Skilled in facilitating workshops, training, and change management.

Digitally fluent; comfortable working with ERP, CRM, and PLM systems (e.g., Netsuite, Salesforce, Arena).

Self-starter comfortable with ambiguity and shifting priorities.

The salary range for this role is $115,000 - $155,000 depending on experience.

Perks and Benefits

• Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401K plan
• Monthly Virtual Work stipend for things like food, internet, travel, pet care, health and wellness
• Parental leave programs
• Paid volunteer days
• Onboarding setup, including : standing desk, laptop, monitor, and chair, and a stipend for additional items such as headphones, blue light glasses, or any other ergonomic supplies you may want or need
• And much, much more!

Fictiv is continuing to expand our remote US workforce. Applicants from the following states are eligible to apply :

Arizona (AZ), California (CA), Colorado (CO), District of Columbia, (DC), Delaware (DE), Florida (FL), Georgia (GA), Hawaii (HI), Iowa (IA), Illinois (IL), Indiana (IN), Kansas (KS), Massachusetts (MA), Maryland (MD), Michigan (MI), Minnesota (MN), Missouri (MO), North Carolina (NC), Nevada (NV), New Hampshire (NH), New Jersey (NJ), New York (NY), Ohio (OH), Oregon (OR), South Carolina (SC), Texas (TX), Tennessee (TN), Utah (UT), Virginia (VA), Washington (WA), West Virginia (WV), Wisconsin (WI), Wyoming (WY)

About Fictiv

Fictiv is transforming how the next rockets, self-driving cars, and life-saving robots are designed, developed, and delivered to customers around the world. People who succeed at Fictiv are talented, creative, and driven to achieve professional excellence and support our vision to help product innovators create.

We're actively seeking teammates who :

We encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups, including but not limited to women, members of the LGBTQ community, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans.