Manager, Commercial & Civil Launch Services (Aerospace)

Location: Remote, U.S.-based; preference for Austin, TX, Huntsville, AL, Los Angeles, CA, or Washington, D.C. The role requires access to Firefly facilities, customer sites, meetings, and other business locations as needed.

Company

hirify.global is a space and defense technology company developing and operating launch and space systems from Earth to the Moon and beyond.

What you will do

• Manage intake and qualification of commercial and U.S. civil launch-service opportunities for the Alpha launch vehicle.
• Coordinate NDAs, customer communications, discovery sessions, follow-ups, and internal responses.
• Gather payload, orbit, launch-window, schedule, acquisition, integration, and decision-process information.
• Coordinate initial technical feedback and translate customer needs into organized internal requests.
• Prepare customer profiles, opportunity briefs, pursuit recommendations, leadership updates, proposals, Statements of Work, and response packages.
• Monitor customer, market, and competitive developments and improve intake, qualification, handoff, tracking, and proposal processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace, mechanical, systems, or related engineering or technical discipline.
• At least 5 years of relevant aerospace, space systems, launch-services, business-development, mission-management, or customer-facing engineering experience.
• Working knowledge of launch vehicles and launch services, including orbital mechanics, mission design, trajectories, propulsion, payload integration, and launch operations.
• Experience with customer discovery, opportunity qualification, market and competitive analysis, capture gates, pursuit decisions, and proposal support.
• Ability to operate independently, manage ambiguity, coordinate across technical and business teams, and handle multiple opportunities.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance and meet Firefly export-control requirements; ITAR eligibility requires U.S. citizenship, lawful permanent residency, protected-individual status, or required U.S. authorizations.

Nice to have

• 10+ years of relevant aerospace, launch-services, or technical business-development experience.
• Advanced engineering or business degree and active Secret or Top Secret clearance.
• Launch-services sales or business-development experience with Alpha-class or comparable vehicles.
• Experience with commercial satellite operators, NASA, U.S. civil-space customers, proposals, contracts, pricing packages, and business cases.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work in the United States with approximately 25% travel and up to 50% when required.
• Health, dental, and vision plans with low deductibles.
• Parental leave, educational reimbursement, short-term disability, and flexible PTO.
• Work across technical, business, mission-management, contracts, pricing, and leadership functions.