Have you seen Apollo 13, The Martian, or Armageddon and recall all of the NASA engineers in a room with a bunch of monitors? Quindar is digitizing that away. Satellites are flying servers in space and we are revolutionizing the future of spacecraft operations by building the DataDog for space.

Our team has worked at SpaceX, OneWeb, Lockheed Martin, Iridium, Boeing, AWS, and RedHat. We've operated dozens of satellites, worked on broadband and earth observation constellations, and serviced commercial and government users. We are using lessons learned from our previous aerospace and startup experiences to revolutionize the space industry and enable access to space without being an expert.

What You’ll Be Doing:

The Director of Business Development & Sales (Commercial) is responsible for driving new business growth and expanding Quindar’s footprint across the commercial space sector. This leader will own pipeline creation, customer acquisition, and partnership development, working directly with the CEO and cross-functional leaders to execute the go-to-market strategy.

The ideal candidate brings a deep network of relationships within aerospace and understands complex enterprise sales cycles and can translate technical capability into business value for primes, operators, and integrators.

This role is a “hunter” position - responsible for building a predictable, scalable new logo engine while collaborating with Customer Success on expansion and Product on roadmap alignment.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Build and Execute the Commercial Go-To-Market Motion

2. Drive Pipeline and ARR Growth

3. Strengthen Market Position

4. Cross-Functional Collaboration

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in Business Development or Enterprise Sales, preferably in aerospace, defense, or dual-use SaaS.

• Demonstrated ability to sell complex, technical solutions with ACVs in the six- to seven-figure range.

• Existing warm relationships with decision-makers across commercial satellite operators, primes, and integrators

• Proven ability to build and manage pipelines, forecast accurately, and close multi-stakeholder deals.

• Strong understanding of SaaS metrics: ARR, pipeline coverage, CAC payback, win rate, and velocity.

• Exceptional executive presence, relationship management, and storytelling skills.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, or related field; MBA preferred.

Preferred Skills:

• Deep knowledge of the satellite ground software or mission operations market.

• Experience leading or mentoring SDR/BDM teams in high-growth SaaS environments.

ITAR REQUIREMENTS

• 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.

Why you'll love working at Quindar

• We work in a cutting edge industry and you will get the opportunity to be part of a small team with a large direct impact on the success of our customers’ space missions!

• We take work life balance very seriously. We require employees to take 15 days off but provide unlimited PTO and follow most US federal government holidays.

• Mental health is just as important as physical so we provide quarterly health & wellness benefits.

• Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family with 100% coverage for employees.

• We encourage employees to save for retirement and provide 4% 401(k) matching.

• Each quarter we have a 4-day company offsite. Previous locations include San Francisco, Nashville, Denver, Santa Fe, New Orleans, San Diego, Bozeman, and New York City.

• Our culture and company is evolving. You will be key in creating the next major or minor version!

Quindar is looking for candidates that like using modern software tools, cloud based services, and architecting software designs. Our frontend is built with React on top of Hasura deployed with Terraform on AWS GovCloud. We have a microservice architecture powered by Python and rely heavily on CI/CD processes.

Aerospace experts are NOT required to help build out our platform. We are looking for candidates that want to build software that tracks, contacts, and operates hundreds of flying computers in space that operate on different operating systems for various customers.