Trade Compliance Specialist
Owns day-to-day U.S. import and export compliance operations, including ITAR/EAR classification, licensing, screening, training, audits, and controlled-information access. The role requires 5+ years of trade compliance experience, a bachelor's degree, U.S. citizenship, and eligibility for a DoD clearance.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Perform and document restricted and denied party screening for customers, partners, vendors, visitors, and foreign persons.
- Administer foreign-person and visitor compliance requirements, including screening, access reviews, DDTC notifications, certifications, and documentation.
- Prepare, submit, administer, and track export licenses, agreements, authorizations, and classification requests through DDTC's DECCS and SNAP-R, including DSP-5 licenses, TAAs, MLAs, commodity-jurisdiction requests, and other applicable authorizations.
- Prepare and track correspondence with the U.S. Department of State and DDTC regarding personnel, foreign-person access, technical data, software, defense articles, and ITAR-controlled activities.
- Perform jurisdiction and classification analyses for software, source code, technical data, hardware, and integrated systems under USML and CCL/ECCN frameworks.
- Administer ITAR exemptions, EAR license exceptions, Technology Control Plans, and Technology Transfer Plans.
- Maintain records of licenses, agreements, classifications, provisos, exceptions, exemptions, expiration dates, reporting requirements, and continuing obligations.
- Partner with ISSM, FSO, IT, Security, and Engineering to control and document access to export-controlled information.
- Support import compliance, including tariff classification, country-of-origin documentation, customs documentation, and coordination with customs brokers and freight forwarders.
- Deliver new-hire, role-specific, and recurring export-control training; conduct internal audits and self-assessments; document findings; and track corrective actions.
- Maintain audit-ready trade compliance records and continuously improve the Export Management and Compliance Program (EMCP), including policies, procedures, forms, checklists, workflows, and recordkeeping practices.
- Coordinate trade compliance reviews for software and technical-data releases, technology transfers, international shipments, demonstrations, deployments, and foreign customer engagements.
- Monitor regulatory developments and strengthen trade compliance processes as the business scales.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on experience supporting or executing U.S. import, export, or trade compliance activities, including ITAR and EAR requirements.
- In-depth working knowledge of ITAR, EAR, the Commerce Control List (CCL), Export Control Classification Numbers (ECCNs), and deemed exports.
- Hands-on experience preparing, administering, or tracking DDTC and/or BIS export licenses, agreements, authorizations, or classification requests, including DSP-5s, TAAs, MLAs, or similar authorizations.
- Familiarity with DECCS and SNAP-R.
- Ability to prepare and coordinate regulatory correspondence, notifications, requests, and approvals with DDTC and other U.S. government agencies.
- Proficiency in restricted- and denied-party screening and compliance documentation.
- Familiarity with Technology Control Plans, Technology Transfer Plans, and similar export-control access requirements.
- Strong knowledge of audit-ready trade compliance recordkeeping.
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Finance, or a related field.
- U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense security clearance.
Nice-to-haves
- Active DoD security clearance at Secret level or higher.
- Graduate degree in Business, Law, or Finance.
- Experience in defense technology, aerospace, autonomous systems, robotics, or another highly regulated technical environment.
- Experience supporting a registered ITAR manufacturer and exporter or U.S. government contractor.
- Experience with BIS commodity classifications, license applications, and EAR license exceptions.
- Familiarity with OFAC sanctions and embargo requirements.
- Experience maintaining or supporting an EMCP or similar internal compliance program.
- Experience conducting internal trade compliance audits, self-assessments, investigations, voluntary disclosures, and corrective actions.
Skills
Itar, Ear, Commerce Control List, Eccn, Deccs, Snap-R, Restricted Party Screening, Export Licenses, Dsp-5, Taas, Mlas, Ofac
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