Senior Business Development Manager, Satellite Constellations
Muon Space· Business Development
Hybrid (Northern VA)$147k - $164k + equity + bonusFull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Senior BD Manager focused on the Department of War (DoW) / IC portfolio for Muon Space, leading customer engagement, capture, proposals, and strategy to win new DoW space-related contracts.
Responsibilities
- Drive near term and long term growth for Muon Space in DoD.
- Lead customer engagement, pipeline development and capture efforts.
- Provide thought leadership in developing 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; develop win themes, engage with engineering for technical solutions, develop Price to Win, write content and review 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
Qualifications
- 10+ years of professional experience in aerospace/ defense with 5+ years in Business Development.
- Able to build a plan and execute with clear ownership and minimal oversight.
- Experience working with business development on USG captures and supporting and/or leading proposals.
- Demonstrated success capturing space business within the DoW.
- Continuous learner that is not afraid to lead through uncertainty, take chances, and learn from mistakes.
- Consistently takes initiative and champions causes that need to be addressed.
- Demonstrated emotional intelligence to interact 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.
- Ability to obtain a clearance.
Skills
Required:Business developmentProposal leadershipCapture managementStrategic planningCommunication
Benefits
- equity compensation
- medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401k retirement plan
- short & long term disability and life insurance
- three weeks paid vacation
- 12 paid holidays
- unlimited sick time
- paid parental leave
Last updated Sep 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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