Trade Compliance Leader

Company Overview

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refuelling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.

At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.

Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Group Overview

Metrea is actively building its presence in Australia as part of a deliberate, globally coordinated expansion into the Asia-Pacific region. Our Asia-Pacific Market Group, headquartered in Brisbane with an additional office in Perth, is the enterprise's dedicated regional interface — connecting Australia's national security community with Metrea's full suite of capabilities across three core domains: Aerospace, Electromagnetic & Cyber, and Digital & Synthetic. Metrea is now bringing that same depth of mission expertise and proven operating model to Australia.

Underpinning these capabilities is a global network of Support Groups spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement — ensuring that as we grow in Australia, we do so with the full weight of an established global enterprise behind us.

Metrea's solutions are built for elegance: effective, efficient, and evolving — enabling our partners to scale capacity and achieve asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Position Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Global Trade Compliance Leader to support export control and trade compliance activities within a regulated operating environment. Reporting directly to the Head of Global Trade Compliance, the role assesses exports, technology transfers, and services, oversees export licensing and compliance processes, and provides practical guidance to internal stakeholders.

Working across domestic and international operations, the position contributes to effective compliance outcomes, focusing on Australian export control requirements, as well as supporting U.S. and U.K. export control frameworks, while supporting risk management, record keeping, and audit readiness activities.

What You'll Do

• Australian Export Controls: Australian export control and trade compliance activities across business operations. Assess exports, transfers, and services to identify applicable compliance requirements and potential risks in a regulated environment
• Export Licensing: Manage export licensing and approval processes, including preparation, coordination, tracking, and ongoing administration of approvals and conditions
• International Export Controls (U.S. & U.K.): Support compliance activities involving U.S. export controls (ITAR/EAR) and U.K. export control requirements where Australian operations, cross-border transactions, or multinational programs are involved
• Compliance Advisory: Provide practical export control and trade compliance guidance to internal stakeholders to support informed, compliant business decisions
• Records & Audit Readiness: Maintain accurate export control records and documentation to support compliance assurance activities, audits, and reviews
• Policies & Procedures: Implementation and ongoing maintenance of export control policies, procedures, and internal compliance frameworks
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with technical, project, commercial, supply chain, and operational teams to embed export control requirements into business activities
• Monitoring & Continuous Improvement: Monitor changes in export control requirements and contribute to continuous improvement of compliance processes and controls

What You Bring

• 7+ years of experience supporting Australian export control and trade compliance activities within a regulated environment
• A working knowledge of Defence Export Controls (DEC), Defence Trade Controls Act and the Defence Strategic Goods List
• Ability to assess exports, transfers, and services against Australian export control and compliance requirements
• Working knowledge of Australian Government security requirements and Department of Defence security policies
• Experience with export licensing and approval processes, including preparation, coordination, tracking, and ongoing compliance
• Working knowledge of U.S. export controls (ITAR and EAR) and their application to Australian and multinational operations
• Experience supporting compliance with U.K. export control requirements in crossborder or collaborative programs
• Experience maintaining export control records and documentation to support audits, reviews, and compliance assurance activities
• Ability to provide clear, practical export control advice to internal stakeholders, including engineering, project, supply chain, financial and commercial teams
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to interpret regulatory guidance and manage competing priorities

Benefits

• Private Health Insurance
• Generous Annual Leave
• Annual incentive plan
• Paid parental leave
• Life and TPD Insurance
• Income Protection Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Novated Car Leasing

Security Clearance

Ability to obtain and maintain an AGSVA security clearance.

Diversity & Inclusion

We are committed to building a team that reflects a broad range of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates and make hiring decisions based on capability, potential and alignment with our values. If you require any adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please let us know.

Our Firmware

At Metrea, our single core value is Rooted in Humility, and our four cornerstone attributes are Entrepreneurial, Systematic, Discerning, and Over-Deliver. These form what we call our Teammate Firmware. Just like technical firmware connects software and hardware, our Firmware is the constant interface between our mission and our people. It defines how we show up, how we work together, and how we solve complex problems.

Our team Firmware creates a web-like, hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical way of working that helps us adapt quickly, communicate openly, and distribute decision-making to where expertise actually lives. It enables groups to self-organize around hard problems, shift fluidly as priorities evolve, and operate with the trust, curiosity, and discipline required in a complex mission space. This foundation allows us to deliver elegant, effective solutions and uphold our purpose: protecting our precious inheritance.