Business Development & Strategy Engineer - HASTENew$72K

Rocket Lab
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The opportunity

Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, expand humanity’s reach to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. We move fast, build real hardware for meaningful missions, and make the impossible routine.

What you'll do

  • Draft proposals for new business opportunities in collaboration with Business: Development and Engineering teams.

  • Support the Business Development team in tracking opportunities, analyzing: pipeline activity, and forecasting demand for HASTE capabilities.

  • Coordinate with Engineering to assess mission requirements and develop timely: technical responses to inquiries related to HASTE capabilities.

  • Work cross-functionally with Production and Engineering to establish: realistic, achievable NRE timelines and launch dates for future missions.

  • Collaborate with Communications and Business Development to maintain and: improve HASTE marketing materials, data sheets, and user guides. Partner with Engineering to identify and address technical gaps and support efforts to improve and standardize customer-facing technical documentation.

  • Use internal tools, including Salesforce, to track leads, opportunities, and: proposals and support Business Development reporting and KPI development.

What they're looking for

  • Support Business Development activities related to launch service agreements,: technical assistance agreements, and non-disclosure agreements, as well as Jira ticket creation, tracking, and prioritization.
  • Build and maintain knowledge of the suborbital launch and hypersonic test: markets, including competitive capabilities, customer demand, and emerging trends, to support sales forecasting, pricing strategy, business planning, and HASTE product development.
  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, or other technical discipline.
  • Professional or internship experience in an engineering role within the: aerospace, defense, or national security industries.