Space Jobs for Sales and Business Development

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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 212 out of 439 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 experience182
• Name a security clearance46
• Set a residency or work-authorization condition18
• Name u.S. person status (ITAR or EAR)13
• 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

Employer	Open roles	Pay stated
Muon Space	6	$83.2k–$224k/yr
Hubble Network	3	$110k–$250k/yr
Amazon Leo	24	$82.7k–$262k/yr
True Anomaly	1	$115k–$190k/yr
Momentus	1	$140k–$175k/yr
LeoLabs	3	Not stated
Stoke Space	1	$160k–$260k/yr
Inversion Space	1	$220k–$290k/yr
BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems	5	$133k–$261k/yr
Apex	10	$80k–$600k/yr
Loft Federal	1	$200k–$250k/yr
Albedo	1	$169k–$190k/yr
Varda Space Industries	3	$200k–$311k/yr
Loft Orbital	4	$130k–$200k/yr
Viasat	13	$80k–$285k/yr
Skylo	1	$155k–$170k/yr
Blue Origin	6	$145k–$237k/yr
Impulse Space	1	$100k–$150k/yr
Quantum Space	2	$125k–$230k/yr
Epsilon3	1	$140k–$200k/yr
HawkEye 360	1	$185k–$230k/yr
Planet	20	$67.6k–$166k/yr
BlackSky	2	Not stated
Slingshot Aerospace	3	$120k–$200k/yr
CesiumAstro	11	$65k–$371k/yr
Spire Global	9	$101k–$230k/yr
Voyager Technologies	3	$48.9k–$62.4k/yr
Northwood Space	1	$121k–$156k/yr
Orbit Fab	1	$150k–$200k/yr
Parsons	1	$177k–$332k/yr
Sierra Space	4	$90.7k–$347k/yr
Relativity Space	1	$122k–$182k/yr
Vast	2	$112k–$203k/yr
ICEYE	12	Not stated
OHB	8	Not stated
Telesat	5	Not stated
Telespazio	5	Not stated
ClearSpace	4	Not stated
HyImpulse	4	Not stated
Thales Alenia Space	4	Not stated
Astroscale	3	Not stated
Eutelsat	3	Not stated
Open Cosmos	3	Not stated
Redwire Space Europe	3	Not stated
ArianeGroup	2	Not stated
Constellr	2	Not stated
Foundational	2	Not stated
NewOrbit Space	2	Not stated
Airbus Defence and Space	1	Not stated
Axiom Space	1	Not stated
Dawn Aerospace	1	Not stated
Exotrail	1	Not stated
GHGSat	1	Not stated
Isar Aerospace	1	Not stated
Satellogic	1	Not stated
Star Catcher	1	Not stated
Synspective	1	Not stated
The Exploration Company	1	Not stated
ThrustMe	1	Not stated
Starfish Space	1	$100k–$180k/yr
Katalyst Space Technologies	1	$110k–$180k/yr
SES	4	Not stated
SpaceX	109	$80k–$260k/yr
ispace	5	Not stated
Redwire	2	$148k–$212k/yr
Rendezvous Robotics	3	$95k–$200k/yr
L3Harris	4	Not stated
Lockheed Martin	7	$81.5k–$325k/yr
Vantor	4	$219k–$365k/yr
SEAKR Engineering	1	$225k–$275k/yr
Blue Canyon Technologies	3	Not stated
AeroVironment (AV)	2	$80.5k–$123k/yr
Northrop Grumman	13	$75.8k–$263k/yr
Iridium	12	$88k–$306k/yr
Rocket Lab	22	$86k–$321k/yr
CACI	2	$115k–$302k/yr
Ursa Major	3	$80k–$330k/yr
Lunar Outpost	2	$49.9k/yr
Teledyne	7	$62.8k–$251k/yr
Astranis	12	$60.3k–$225k/yr

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.

Amazon Leo24 open

Assessment

Amazon's interview loop. How to apply

Interview

Interview

Blue Origin6 open

Assessment

No general test published. How to apply

Interview

None published

Thales Alenia Space4 open

Assessment

Thales interviews. How to apply

Interview

Interview

Airbus Defence and Space1 open

Assessment

Airbus interviews and role tests. How to apply

Interview

Interview

Lockheed Martin7 open

Assessment

Lockheed Martin's interviews. How to apply

Interview

Interview

Northrop Grumman13 open

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.

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).