Senior Manager, Launch Sales
Business - Villeneuve, CH
The position
- Crew
- Business
- Location
- Villeneuve, CH
- Type of contract
- Full-time
Your role
Satellite operators are asking for LYOBA capacity while the vehicle is still being built. We need the person who turns those conversations into signed contracts.
PAVE Space is building LYOBA, a heavy kick stage moving up to 4-ton payloads from LEO to high-energy orbits in under 24 hours. Launch access is scarce across the industry, so every slot we sell matters, and every slot we sell is backed by a launcher we secure in parallel.
So, why now?
The vehicle is being built now, and the pipeline has to grow at the same pace. Today the commercial cycle runs through our CEO. You'll take ownership of it: answering customers within 24 hours, moving reservation agreements forward week by week, and building a pipeline we can stand behind with customers, launch partners and investors.
You will own
The full LYOBA commercial cycle, from first conversation to signed contract
Negotiation of reservation agreements and full launch contracts, with our CEO and Head of Legal
A pipeline and forecast in our CRM that is accurate any day of the week
Proposals and RFP responses, built with a senior Mission Manager at your side
Market feedback into product decisions: what customers ask for, and what they push back on
The sales process itself, built, documented and improved as volume grows
What we are looking for
A track record closing multi-million deals with complex B2B or government buyers, on 12 to 24 month cycles
Experience in space, aerospace, defense or complex industrial sales
Proven pipeline discipline: you can show how you tracked, followed up and forecast
Negotiation on price and terms, with the judgment to know what to escalate
The ability to learn technical and contractual detail fast, and to say "I'll check" rather than guess
Fluent English
Nice to have: a network among satellite operators or launch providers, French or German.
You will fit if
You'd rather close one deal than fill a pipeline with prospects.
Your CRM is clean because you need it to be, not because someone asked.
You treat a reply to a customer as part of the product: fast, accurate, and impossible to misread.
You build the process before the volume arrives, and fix it when it breaks.
You can tell a customer what the product does not do yet, and still keep the deal moving.
The role is fully on-site in Villeneuve (VD), with trade shows and customer visits about once a month. You'll sell a vehicle that has not flown yet, to buyers with every reason to be cautious, and the processes around you are still being written. What makes that worth it: the contracts you sign book the first LYOBA missions and shape what the vehicle becomes, and the sales machine you design is the one PAVE Space will scale on.
PAVE Space is the most ambitious space program in Switzerland, and one that ships: real hardware, real funding, real milestones. Apply to sign its first missions, or send this to the best closer you know.