About this role
**About the role**
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.