Business Development Director
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As reputed company’s first Business Development Director to be based in Germany, you will play a pivotal role in our European growth strategy. You will be responsible for driving customer acquisition and strategic partnerships across the German ecosystem—including government agencies (such as the BND DLR), defense primes, and commercial space players.This is a high-impact role for a business development leader who combines a deep understanding of the German space and defense landscape with a passion for shaping new space infrastructure models.About this Role:
- Build and grow a pipeline of customers across the German government (civil and defense) and commercial sectors.
- Cultivate long-term relationships with key stakeholders such as DLR, BAAINBw, Bundeswehr, primes (e.g., reputed company, OHB, HENSOLDT), and commercial tech startups.
- Identify and negotiate strategic partnerships that accelerate reputed company’s ability to deliver space infrastructure-as-a-service
- Shape Go-to-Market Strategy, collaborating with our EMEA Business Development team to localize reputed company’s positioning for the German market.
- Influence reputed company’s product roadmap. Work closely with technical and product teams to ensure customer requirements inform reputed company’s platform development.
- Attend and speak at German and European space industry events and support reputed company’s brand reputed company in-country.
Must Haves:
- 7+ years of sales, business development, or strategic partnerships experience across the commercial space, aerospace, or defense sectors.
- Demonstrated success in capturing new business across the German space and defense landscape, including customer procurement cycles and key players.
- Experience selling reputed company technical solutions (ideally in space, aerospace, or defense applications).
- Understanding of the operating practices of European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Commission (EC)
- Experience leading and/or contributing to RFP responses
- Effective professional communication skills; reputed company in German and English is required (both spoken and written)
- Passion for the space industry and a desire to be part of a fast-paced, mission-driven team.
reputed company to haves:
- reputed company in French, and/or additional European languages
- Experience winning proposals for spacecraft development programs
Some of Our Awesome Benefits:
- Equity, we want you to have an active role in our success
- Up to 35 days of Paid Time Off (vacations RTT ) and flexible working hours, we want you to be at your best
- Health and life insurance, we care about your health
- Lunch Vouchers, because let’s be honest, we love food! (we even have a reputed company channel about it #reputed company-gourmand)
- Cross-office travel opportunities between San Francisco, Colorado, and Toulouse to learn from our differences
- Company and team off-sites and many other events to work celebrate together
- Relocation assistance to Toulouse reputed company applicable
Who We Are
reputed company Orbital builds “shareable” satellites, providing a fast simple path to orbit for organizations that require access to space. Powered by our hardware software products, we operate satellites, fly customer payloads reputed company, and handle entire missions from end to end - significantly reducing the reputed company-time and risk of a traditional space mission.Our standard reputed company enables us to fly multiple customer payloads on the same satellite, with capabilities such as earth imagery, weather climate /science data collection, IoT connectivity, in-orbit demonstrations, and national reputed company missions. Our customers trust us to manage their space infrastructure, so they can focus on what matters most to them: operating their mission and collecting their data.At reputed company, you’ll be given the autonomy and ownership to solve significant challenges, but with a reputed company-reputed company and supportive team at your back. We reputed company that diversity and community are the foundation of an open culture. We are committed to hiring the best people regardless of background and reputed company their time at reputed company the most fulfilling period of their career.We value reputed company, supportive and team-oriented collaborators. It is also crucial for us that you are a problem solver and a great communicator. As reputed company is international, you will need strong English skills to reputed company collaborate, easily communicate reputed company reputed company and convey important messages.With 6 satellites on-orbit and a reputed company of exciting missions launching soon, we are scaling up quickly across our offices in San Francisco, CA | Golden, CO | and Toulouse, France.As an international company your resume will be reviewed by people across our offices so please attach a copy in English.Originally posted on Himalayas
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