Manager, Starlink Enterprise Sales

Spacex; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX in Chicago is seeking a results-oriented Manager, Enterprise Sales for Starlink to drive enterprise adoption across North America. You will build relationships with key decision-makers and close impactful deals aligning Starlink products with client needs.

You will partner with cross-functional teams including market access, finance and legal to deliver compelling solutions for large organizations, with travel ~50% to client sites and SpaceX locations.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in business development or sales.
• Strong negotiation, presentation and relationship-building skills.
• Experience growing a new enterprise sales function and coaching teams.

Responsibilities

• Grow and build the enterprise sales function within Starlink.
• Meet revenue targets and close deals with enterprise customers.
• Identify and secure new enterprise customers and establish relationships with decision makers.
• Lead large-scale enterprise sales efforts for business and government customers.
• Collaborate with market access, account management, finance and legal teams.
• Gather customer requirements and relay feedback to product engineering.
• Represent Starlink at regional conferences and events.

Skills

10+ years sales experience

Team leadership

Negotiation skills

Strategic account development

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal ofenabling human life on Mars.

MANAGER, STARLINK ENTERPRISESALES

The Starlink Enterprise Sales team is hiring a local, results driven Manager, Enterprise Sales to support Starlink's adoption across North America. Starlink brings an unprecedented opportunity to significantly impact communities, businesses, and governments worldwide. The role requires personal drive to identify opportunities in your region, develop the necessary relationships, and ultimately sign deals that will have immediate impact.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Grow and build the enterprisesalesfunction within Starlink
• Meet your revenue targets – you should always be looking for opportunities for Starlink to make an impact and always be closing
• Identifyand secure new enterprise customers directly. This requires the establishment of relationships with the key decision makers and influencers in the various organizations, understanding their current and future needs, and working to find the right Starlink product for them
• Identifyand lead large enterprise sales efforts for business and private sector operations
• Identifyopportunities for alternative go-to-market strategies and be able to defend them internally
• Work in partnership with our market access, account management,financeand legal teams
• Gather customer requirements and work with the product engineering team to iterate on and improve Starlink product offerings
• Represent Starlink at regional conferences and events

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• 10+ years of professional experience in business development or sales

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Demonstrated ability toquickly and successfully grow and develop an excellent team and new function, including ability to develop and coach team members and ability to scale non-linearly
• Excellent negotiation and conflict resolution skills
• Familiarity with existing Starlink products,servicesand customer support systems/processes
• Independently motivated self-starter, with a demonstratedtrack recordof project ownership
• Strong salestrack recordwith the ability to consistently meet or exceed revenue targets – preferably in the satellite/telecommunications sector for enterprise or government customers
• Strong interpersonal, presentation, and negotiation skills
• Strong analytical skills in business and technical issues
• Highly detail oriented, diligent, and hard-working with excellent customer interface skills
• Sufficient knowledge of Starlink's network infrastructure to communicate to customers
• Experience working with cross-functional teams and external customers

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Must be available to work extended hours and weekends as needed
• Willingness to travel approximately 50% of the time to customer locations and other SpaceX locations
• Must sit out of Chicago, IL
• To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here .

SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

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