C

Constellation Space

AI-driven OS for satellite network management

Head of Business Development

Full-Time
$160k - $220k/yr
Expert
Bachelor's
Seattle, WA, USA
In Person
Sales & Account ManagementBusiness Development & Partnerships

About the job

Requirements
  • A Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts degree in Business, Engineering, or a related discipline.
  • At least 5 years of experience in government business development, capture, or complex enterprise software sales.
  • A proven track record of owning and winning high-value programs and navigating federal acquisition environments.
  • Technical literacy sufficient to articulate distributed systems and network orchestration to technical stakeholders.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Security Clearance.
Responsibilities
  • Define and execute Constellation’s multi-year strategy across DoD, USSF, SDA, NASA, and enterprise constellation operators.
  • Lead end-to-end capture for high-value programs, from early shaping through contract award.
  • Navigate government acquisition pathways, including OTAs, SBIR/STTRs, BAAs, and FAR-based contracts, and structure strategic teaming agreements.
  • Translate government and commercial demand signals into product and roadmap priorities alongside the engineering team.
  • Establish repeatable capture processes, pipeline discipline, and forecasting rigor to build a scalable business unit.

About the company

Constellation Space builds ConstellationOS, an AI-powered operating system for large satellite networks. It acts as an autonomous infrastructure layer that ingests telemetry from satellites, ground stations, and weather systems to predict link failures with over 90% accuracy, issuing a five-minute warning and autonomously rerouting traffic in under two seconds to prevent data loss without human intervention. The platform targets satellite operators and seeks to replace reactive NOC playbooks by enabling proactive, automated network management at mega-constellation scale. The team comes from SpaceX, Blue Origin, and NASA, lending domain experience, and the company aims to reduce industry losses from network failures (estimated at $2.5 billion annually) by improving resilience and efficiency. Financially, the company progressed from Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch with a $500K accelerator round to a $6.5M seed in March 2026 led by SGH Capital, to fund platform development and expansion.

Company Size

1-10

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$130K

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2025

Get referred to Constellation Space

See people who can refer or advise you

Simplify Jobs

Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • March 2026 seed financing and YC W26 extend runway for product and sales.
  • AWS Marketplace presence by May 2026 lowers procurement friction for satellite operators.
  • Commercial and government design partners validate demand for mission-assurance software.

What critics are saying

  • Design-partner phase in August 2026 means no proven production adoption yet.
  • AWS and incumbents can bundle constellation orchestration into existing aerospace stacks by 2027.
  • If predictive rerouting misses outages, operators abandon ConstellationOS after one failed fleet incident.

What makes Constellation Space unique

  • ConstellationOS targets autonomous satellite operations, not generic ground-software, since January 2026.
  • AWS Marketplace listing and shadow-pilot rollout signal productization beyond pitch decks.
  • Founders from SpaceX, Blue Origin, and NASA bring rare operational credibility.

Help us improve and share your feedback! Did you find this helpful?

Benefits

  • Company Equity