# Sales Director - Central Asia and Europe

**Company**: Astranis
**Location**: San Francisco
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $190,000-$220,000 USD
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96372482

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## Description

Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity's reach into the solar system.

As a Sales Director - Central Asia and Europe, you will oversee the region and drive consistent deals to close. You will partner with engineers, business development, and the executive team to drive sales through the funnel and accelerate satellite sales.

Responsibilities:

- Drive leads through the pipeline quickly and efficiently, accelerating sales cycles

- Present Astranis technical materials confidently, championing products in the market as an external company representative

- Identify new sales prospects and qualify the pipeline to focus on promising deals

- Negotiate with client representatives to generate shareholder value while building long-term relationships

- Translate between business and technical requirements to find solutions for internal stakeholders and clients

- Communicate efficiently with internal Astranis stakeholders, particularly the Engineering team

- Build and maintain relationships with customers and navigate complicated corporate structures

- Prepare short- and long-term product sales forecasts, reports, and analyses for the Astranis Executive Team and Board of Directors

Requirements:

- Degree in Engineering, Business or a related discipline

- 5+ years of experience in the satellite industry

- 7+ years of experience in a customer-facing sales role

- Proven record of closing complex multi-million dollar enterprise deals

- Solid understanding of satellite communications and payload design

- Strong English-language communication skills

- Willingness and ability to travel up to 30% of the time

- US Citizen or Green Card Holder

Benefits:

- Base pay: $190,000-$220,000 USD

- Significant equity package via incentive stock options

- High-quality company-subsidized healthcare, disability and life insurance

- 401(k) retirement planning

- Flexible PTO

- Free on-site catered meals

## Skills

### Required
- satellite communications
- payload design
- sales
- English-language communication

### Nice to have
- digital network communications
- RF signal theory
- digital satellite network architectures
- IP networking
- financial modeling
- multilingual capabilities

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