Future Opportunities - Sales Engineer
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Responsibilities
- Work as lead within a team to support sales discussions with Space Services customers, assess requirements and design the best possible solutions.
- Serve as the primary technical POC for the Space Services customer throughout the sales cycle.
- Lead the team's preparation and delivery technical presentations and reports explaining Spire's products and services to prospective customers.
- Serve as a primary liaison between the sales and internal engineering teams and provide routine product updates and training to the sales staff.
- Lead the development of technical proposals and generating or sourcing technical content specific to the customer's application or problem set in a timely manner to ensure customer deadlines and sales objectives are met.
- Work closely with the sales team and product managers to identify gaps in current capabilities to drive the technology roadmap and enhance the product offering.
- Support initial Space Services program execution through the System Requirements Review, providing systems engineering support to document customer requirements and ensure a seamless transition from sales to execution.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in a customer-facing technical role.
- Bachelor's degree in relevant Engineering (e.g. Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical, Systems), Computer Science, Physics, or equivalent combination of technical and work experience.
- Experience leading a team.
- Experience presenting technical content to senior/ executive level management.
- Experience in satellite mission design, development, and testing with a clear understanding of major mission design trades and scope drivers (power / payload duty cycle, communications systems / data budgets, ground stations, launch and environmental loads, EMI/EMC, thermal management, etc).
- Knowledge of satellite design and
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Additional Information
This job posting is for pipeline-building purposes and does not reflect an immediate hiring need. We are always looking for top talent and encourage interested candidates to apply for future opportunities. While there is no active vacancy at this time, qualified applicants may be contacted as positions become available. The role of the Sales Engineer requires a deep understanding of challenges of building, launching and operating small satellites. With an emphasis on our Space Services offering, you will build intimate knowledge of the Spire satellite subsystems, payload capabilities, and system interfaces critical to customers seeking to deploy systems onto our network. Successful candidates will have a good balance of technical experience along with strong communications skills, leadership skills and the ability to thrive in a customer focused environment. The role involves supporting business winning campaigns on commercial and government business, owning the technical requirements negotiation and ensuring that the customer mission objectives can be achieved with the offered solution. This role will be the senior technical representative of the company to our International Government customers and will be comfortable presenting to executive level in high pressure situations.
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