Head of Business Development

Inflection Space; Culver City (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Inflection Space Systems is seeking an experienced business development professional to build customer relationships and turn mission needs into spacecraft sales. This full-time, onsite role reports to the CEO and is based at Inflection’s HQ in Los Angeles, CA.

You will own BD for Inflection’s spacecraft platforms, translate mission needs into requirements and proposals, and lead pricing, schedules, and contract negotiations with the founders and engineering team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of business development experience selling complex technical products or services.
• Experience in customer development, proposal writing, pricing, and contract negotiations.
• Experience translating spacecraft capabilities into value for government and commercial audiences.
• A high degree of knowledge about the space industry, spacecraft technologies, and commercial and government space applications.
• Demonstrated track record of success converting initial customer engagement into contract awards.
• The ability to get hands-on, and an appetite to learn new things.

Responsibilities

• Own business development for Inflection’s spacecraft platforms, from identifying opportunities through contract award.
• Build relationships with customers and partners; translate mission needs into actionable requirements and proposals.
• Lead proposals and coordinate pricing, schedules, and contract negotiations with the founders and engineering team.
• Manage the opportunity pipeline, sales forecasts, and customer follow-through.
• Bring customer and market feedback into spacecraft design decisions and manufacturing line development.
• Support the transition from signed contracts to program execution and maintain customer relationships through programmatic execution.

Skills

Business development

Proposal writing

Pricing

Contract negotiations

Space industry knowledge

Customer development

Spacecraft value translation

Job description

Inflection is seeking an experienced business development professional to build customer relationships and turn mission needs into spacecraft sales. This role reports directly to the CEO. This is a full-time, onsite role based out of Inflection’s HQ in Los Angeles, CA.

What you\'ll do

• Own business development for Inflection’s spacecraft platforms, from identifying opportunities through contract award.


• Build relationships with customers and partners; translate mission needs into actionable requirements and proposals.


• Lead proposals and coordinate pricing, schedules, and contract negotiations with the founders and engineering team.


• Manage the opportunity pipeline, sales forecasts, and customer follow-through.


• Bring customer and market feedback into spacecraft design decisions and manufacturing line development.


• Support the transition from signed contracts to program execution and maintain customer relationships through programmatic execution.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of business development experience selling complex technical products or services.


• Experience in customer development, proposal writing, pricing, and contract negotiations.


• Experience translating spacecraft capabilities into value for government and commercial audiences.


• A high degree of knowledge about the space industry, spacecraft technologies, and commercial and government space applications.


• Demonstrated track record of success converting initial customer engagement into contract awards.


• The ability to get hands-on, and an appetite to learn new things.

About Inflection Space Systems

Inflection Space Systems is redefining how spacecraft are designed and manufactured. The company was founded on the belief that humanity’s future in space will be defined by scale: tens of thousands of spacecraft operating across many orbits to unlock abundance for humanity. Inflection exists to make this scale real, by mass manufacturing spacecraft using the same supply chains and technologies already utilized by established, high-volume industries. If you are passionate about the industrialization of space, an expert in your field, and not afraid to get your hands dirty, Inflection may be the place for you.