International Business Development Manager

Summary

Join Muon Space as an International Business Development Manager and drive growth in international missions (commercial and government). Reporting to the VP of Growth, you will lead customer engagement, pipeline development, and capture efforts. Responsibilities include creating and leading new opportunities, managing proposals, and collaborating with various departments. This role requires 10+ years of aerospace/defense experience with 2+ years in business development, a technical understanding of satellites, and demonstrated success in capturing space business. Muon Space offers a competitive salary, equity, and benefits including health insurance, retirement plan, paid time off, and parental leave.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional experience in aerospace/ defense with 2+ years in Business Development
• Able to build a plan and execute with clear ownership and minimal oversight
• Technical understanding of satellites and space missions
• Experience working with business development on International Space captures and supports and/or leading proposals
• Demonstrated success capturing space business within the DoD/ IC
• Continuous learner that is not afraid to lead through uncertainty, take chances, and learn from his/her mistakes
• Consistently takes initiative and champions causes that need to be addressed
• Demonstrated emotional intelligence to interact and empathize with staff, colleagues, cross-functional teams, and customers
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Comfortable working in a dynamic and fast-paced development environment
• Able to travel up to 35% of time
• Satellite technical understanding

Responsibilities

• Drive near term and long term growth for Muon Space in International
• Lead customer engagement, pipeline development and capture efforts
• Provide thought leadership in the development and synthesis of a cohesive and executable strategy for target organizations
• Identify new opportunities and lead capture throughout pipeline stages to support company growth targets
• Create, maintain and implement customer engagement plans
• Lead proposals and RFI responses. As part of proposal leadership- develop win themes, engage with engineering to develop technical solutions, develop Price to Win, write content and perform overall review of content before submission
• Leverage Muon Space’s tools and processes to track and manage opportunities
• Collaborate with other BD personnel and engineering on opportunities
• Provide input from Customers into the product technology roadmap
• Work with Legal and Finance on opportunities
• All other duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in technical field
• Demonstrated experience delivering to DoD/IC
• Experience with remote sensing satellite development and/or mission operations
• Experience working with a diverse set of International customers
• Understanding of systems engineering processes and system architectures

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• A 401k retirement plan
• Short & long term disability and life insurance
• Three weeks paid vacation for new employees
• 12 paid holidays
• Unlimited sick time
• Paid parental leave
• Equity compensation