Director, International Sales (Aerospace)

Location: United Kingdom only for internationally based candidates. US-based candidates may be hired only from the listed eligible US states.

Company

hirify.global develops data and software solutions designed to make space operations safer and more secure, supporting global security, disaster response, climate monitoring, and critical infrastructure.

What you will do

• Lead the international sales organization and own bookings, Annual Recurring Revenue, pipeline conversion, forecast accuracy, and customer growth.
• Build trusted relationships with government and commercial customers and develop account strategies, engagement plans, and long-term growth objectives.
• Manage qualified opportunities through proposals, negotiations, contract awards, renewals, and expansions.
• Maintain pipeline visibility, CRM discipline, forecasting, business reviews, and accurate reporting in HubSpot or equivalent systems.
• Translate technical capabilities into customer value propositions and represent customer insight across product, engineering, programme delivery, finance, legal, and leadership teams.
• Lead, coach, and develop Account Executives and Account Managers while scaling sales processes, tools, operating cadence, and capabilities.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading enterprise, government, defence, aerospace, complex technology sales, or an equivalent commercial function.
• Demonstrated success owning sales targets and converting complex opportunities into bookings, recurring revenue, or long-term customer growth.
• Experience managing senior customer relationships, complex sales cycles, pipelines, forecasts, account plans, bookings, and revenue reporting.
• Experience using HubSpot or an equivalent CRM to support disciplined sales execution and accurate reporting.
• Strong commercial judgment and the ability to communicate complex technical products to technical, operational, commercial, and executive audiences.
• Demonstrated people-management experience, including coaching, performance management, expectation-setting, and sales talent development.

Nice to have

• Experience selling into space, defence, intelligence, national security, civil government, or related sectors.
• Experience with software, data, SaaS, analytics, command and control, space-domain-awareness, or satellite-operations solutions.
• Experience selling into international government or defence markets and existing relationships across relevant customer communities.
• Familiarity with government procurement, RFP processes, framework agreements, or multi-year contracting structures.
• Experience building repeatable sales operating models, dashboards, forecast cadences, and performance metrics.

Culture & Benefits

• Work alongside builders, thinkers, and problem-solvers focused on creating safer and more secure space operations.
• A fast-moving environment that values curiosity, initiative, experimentation, and accountability.
• Collaborate across sales, business development, partnerships, product, engineering, programme delivery, finance, legal, and campaigns teams.
• A diverse and inclusive workplace that values different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds.