Sales and business development
Space Jobs for Sales and Business Development
, SpaceJobs.Now lists 438 open roles for sales and business development professionals on 80 space industry employers, including Muon Space, Hubble Network and Amazon Leo; typical pay across them is $132k to $288k a year (median $165k), topped by $600k a year advertised at Apex.
Sales Manager, Global Government, Southern Europe (opens the job details)
SES · Programs & Business · Betzdorf, Luxembourg· 1d agoDetails
Sales Manager, Global Government, Poland & Baltics (opens the job details)
SES · Programs & Business · Betzdorf, Luxembourg· 1d agoDetails
Sales Representative (opens the job details)
SES · Programs & Business · Munich (Unterföhring), Germany· 1d agoDetails
Measured from 205 distinct posted rates, across 48 employers, each as a year's pay (an hourly rate × 2,080 hours). 207 of the 438 listings open here post no pay at all.
Space companies hire sales and business development professionals to win launch contracts, sell satellite services and data, and capture government programs. Each listing here is re-verified on the employer's own job board once an hour.
Live roles for sales and business development professionals
Updated 31 Oct 2026, 23:02 UTCListed here: SES roles. See every employer
Account executives and customer success
1 openSell to and look after enterprise, aviation, maritime and government customers of satellite services and data.
Sales Representative (opens the job details)
SES · Programs & Business · Munich (Unterföhring), Germany· 1d agoDetails
Sales professionals
3 openSales roles across space companies.
Sales Manager, Global Government, Southern Europe (opens the job details)
SES · Programs & Business · Betzdorf, Luxembourg· 1d agoDetails
Sales Manager, Global Government, Poland & Baltics (opens the job details)
SES · Programs & Business · Betzdorf, Luxembourg· 1d agoDetails
Director, Sales APAC (opens the job details)
SES · Programs & Business · SG, 119963· 1d agoDetails
Before you apply
Space hardware is built, tested and flown in person, so many roles name a factory, a test site, a launch site or a control room, and each listing states its location. US roles that touch export-controlled technology (ITAR or EAR) can ask that you be a U.S. person, and some ask for a security clearance. A real employer never charges you to apply, never interviews you only by chat app and never asks you to buy equipment.
Pay by specialty
Every specialty gets its typical band from its own open roles, computed by the same method as the rest of the site (the 25th percentile of what roles pay (the middle of each posted range, as a year's pay: an hourly rate counts at 2,080 hours, 40 a week for 52 weeks) to the 90th-percentile posted top). A specialty is listed once three or more distinct rates have been posted.
What the roles ask for
Drawn from the requirement lines of 233 out of 438 open roles for sales and business development professionals, the same lines each role's pop-up quotes from its posting. Each role is counted once, at the lowest degree it will accept.
- Name years of experience193
- Name a security clearance50
- Set a residency or work-authorization condition21
- Name u.S. person status (ITAR or EAR)14
- Require programming (Python, C++, MATLAB and similar)6
- Ask for a professional license1
Where a posting states years of experience, the median ask is 6 years.
Who hires sales and business development professionals in the space industry
Sorted by the expected value of an application (acceptance odds times posted pay). A referral agreement, if an employer has one, can raise it in this order but never changes the salary it offers.
Sales or Business Development Professional salary by employer
What each employer's own postings pay sales and business development professionals, by level and by site, with every role and its posted pay.
- SpaceX Sales or Business Development Professional salarymedian $150k/yr, 109 open roles
- Amazon Leo Sales or Business Development Professional salarymedian $169k/yr, 24 open roles
- Rocket Lab Sales or Business Development Professional salarymedian $224k/yr, 22 open roles
- Planet Sales or Business Development Professional salarymedian $129k/yr, 20 open roles
- Northrop Grumman Sales or Business Development Professional salarymedian $152k/yr, 13 open roles
- Astranis Sales or Business Development Professional salarymedian $169k/yr, 12 open roles
How each employer checks you
For every employer currently hiring sales and business development professionals: its process as its own hiring guide describes it, each line with its source. The complete steps sit on that employer's page. Sorted by the expected value of an application (acceptance odds times posted pay). A referral agreement, if an employer has one, can raise it in this order but never changes the salary it offers.
- Assessment
- Amazon's interview loop. How to apply
- Interview
- Interview
- Assessment
- No general test published. How to apply
- Interview
- None published
- Assessment
- Thales interviews. How to apply
- Interview
- Interview
- Assessment
- Airbus interviews and role tests. How to apply
- Interview
- Interview
- Assessment
- Lockheed Martin's interviews. How to apply
- Interview
- Interview
- Assessment
- The recruiter screening and team interviews. How to apply
- Interview
- Interview
Where these roles are posted
The US states with the most open roles for sales and business development professionals, and the roles posted for a single country. A place name leads to its own page, and a country's count lists the matching roles.
Students and recent graduates: 8 open space internships for sales and business development professionals.
In the US, by state
Space industry jobs by US state
In the US, by metro area
What our research measures about programs & business work
Read from the open postings on 2026-10-30 by our space industry research, rebuilt every day. Every figure opens the row of the report it comes from.
- Who is hiring2,351 open roles (14.8% of the space roles we read) at 134 employers, 948 of them posted in the last 30 days.
- Where the jobs are4.1% of these roles are remote; the rest are on-site or hybrid.
- Who can apply59.4% of the postings are open only to US persons or US citizens, and 31.7% name a security clearance.
- Skills and toolsThe skills its postings name most: Excel (21%), SAP or another ERP (15%) and Jira (8%).
- Degrees and experience4.8% of the postings take a high school diploma or an associate's degree, 25.0% name a master's or PhD, and they ask for a median of 5 years of experience at the least.
- Pay transparency58.8% of the postings state their pay, at a median $148,000 a year.
- Internships and entry level95 open roles are for someone starting out (4.0% of its open roles).
- Shifts, weekends and travel15.0% of the postings ask for weekend work, 17.1% for overtime or extended hours, and 0.4% name an evening, night or rotating shift.
- What applications askThe application forms for this work ask your citizenship or U.S. person status (77.6% of them), about a security clearance (47.7% of them), your GPA (25.3% of them), SAT, ACT or GRE scores (24.4% of them), your salary expectations (26.5% of them) and whether you have worked or interviewed at the company before (41.7% of them).
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Frequently asked questions
How much do sales and business development professionals earn in the space industry?
Going by the 205 distinct salaries currently posted for roles for sales and business development professionals (each put on a full-time year), the typical range is $132k–$288k/yr and the median is $165k/yr. The top posted figure is $600k/yr, at Apex. 207 of the 438 open roles for sales and business development professionals state no pay, so check each listing.
What do space sales roles ask for?
Most ask for years of sales or business development experience, often in aerospace, defense, telecommunications or government contracting, and a technical degree helps in sales engineering. Roles that sell to national security customers can ask for a security clearance. Every posting spells out its exact requirements and work site, so read each one. Of the 233 open roles for sales and business development professionals whose requirements we read, 4 a master's, 157 at least a bachelor's and 72 name no degree.
What does a sales or business development professional do at a space company?
A sales or business development professional at a space company finds and wins the customers that pay for launches, spacecraft, connectivity and Earth observation data. In the defense and civil market that means capture management and proposals for government contracts; in the commercial market, account executives and customer success teams selling satellite connectivity and data to enterprises, airlines, shipping and governments.
How do space companies hire sales and business development professionals?
Each employer runs its own hiring, and each listing says what it asks for: the degree or the hands-on experience, the location, and for export-controlled work in the US, often U.S. person status. Of the employers hiring sales and business development professionals now, none publishes a recorded interview or an ID check in the guides we hold. The section on how each employer checks you quotes each guide with its source.
Are these jobs real?
Every role here is read from a space employer's own careers page or job board (Muon Space, Hubble Network, Amazon Leo and True Anomaly among them), and each employer's page here covers who they are and how they hire. A real employer never charges you to apply, never asks you to buy equipment and never interviews you only by chat app.
Which space companies pay sales and business development professionals the most?
Of the 6 employers whose postings for sales and business development professionals state enough pay for a figure, the highest medians are Rocket Lab ($224k/yr), Amazon Leo ($169k/yr) and Astranis ($169k/yr). A median is of what each employer's open roles post today, by the same formula for every employer.
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