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The Role
Develop and execute business development and capture strategies for national security space opportunities. Build trusted relationships with government and commercial customers, identify and shape opportunities, support teaming and win approaches, coordinate engineering and internal teams, and contribute to proposal development, executive reviews, and customer engagements across DoW and IC mission areas.
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Be one of the Bedo 100
Albedo is making Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) mainstream, building the infrastructure to enable every satellite mission to enter this new orbital domain. We build buses, integrated satellites, and turnkey missions for customers to thrive in VLEO, below 300 km, where proximity compounds performance and drag self-cleans debris.
As part of the first 100 employees at Albedo, you will have a big impact on Albedo’s trajectory to proliferating VLEO — whether you’re advancing hardware to increase satellite longevity, scaling production for large constellations, building next-gen flight and ground software to push performance, or enabling missions that matter for national security and our day-to-day life here on Earth.
How We Operate: Albedo takes a first-principles approach — in space and in business. We move with speed, take calculated risks, and learn quickly. We use AI regularly to create leverage in every discipline across the company. We work in-person at our Broomfield, CO HQ to maximize team and company productivity. We work hard and with urgency to compound our first-mover advantage.
Who We're Looking For: Builders who want to own outcomes, not tasks. Systems thinkers who balance precision with iteration while thinking about the big picture. Individuals who are energized by creating a category rather than competing in an existing one. You’ll join a team that has already proven what others said wasn’t feasible and is now scaling and upgrading our VLEO buses & payloads to serve mission sets across sensing, communications, and responsive operations.
If you can feel the excitement running through your veins, apply to be one of the Bedo 100.
About This Role:
Albedo is redefining how to meet USG mission objectives from very low Earth orbit, and our national security business is scaling quickly. We're building out our BD team and hiring a Business Development and Capture Manager to leverage trusted customer relationships across the DoW and IC and convert mission challenges into captured opportunities. You'll help set the direction as much as execute it; shaping strategy, teaming, and win approaches alongside our capture and engineering teams.
What You'll Do:
- Serve as a primary customer-facing point of contact for assigned government and commercial accounts
- Define and execute business development and campaign strategies
- Build and maintain trusted relationships with customer stakeholders and mission owners
- Identify, qualify, and shape new opportunities aligned with Albedo's capabilities
- Support capture strategy development including value propositions, teaming, and win approaches
- Manage multiple campaigns, coordinating with capture and engineering support as needed
- Coordinate internal teams to ensure proposed solutions reflect mission realities
- Support proposal shaping, executive reviews, and customer engagement activities
Your Ideal Skills and Experience:
- Experience in national security space or government acquisition, either from the industry BD/capture side or the government side (program managers, contracting officers, COTRs who understand how buyers evaluate)
- Recent USG experience strongly preferred
- Strong understanding of relevant mission areas such as ISR, GEOINT, SIGINT, AMTI, multi-domain killchains, space warfighting, or space domain awareness (SDA)
- Demonstrated success supporting or leading capture campaigns
- Proven ability to manage customer relationships and long-term campaigns
- Excellent communication skills across technical, operational, and executive audiences
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline
- Based in Broomfield, CO or National Capitol Region
Nice to Have For This Role:
- Mission-domain fluency in at least one of: VLEO, EO, active/passive RF, SDA
- Existing network across government or IC agencies and mission partners
- Experience supporting classified programs
- Product or mission integration experience
- Demonstrated discretion and sound judgment in sensitive environments
- Active security clearance
Salary Range:
$134,525 - $164,214
Compensation and Benefits for Full-Time Roles:
- Employee friendly equity compensation
- 4% direct matching 401k
- Health Insurance: 100% employee coverage & 75% dependent coverage
- Parental leave and childcare coverage
- Flexible vacation and sick time from day one
- 12 company holidays
- $100 monthly wellness benefit
- Relocation package if not based in Denver
The final compensation package is subject to change if the candidate's experience and company need drive a different job level than originally slated for the position.
Albedo does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to Albedo employees. Albedo is not responsible for any fees or overhead related to unsolicited resumes.
Additional Requirements: In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire. All persons hired will be required to be a U.S. citizen, a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., or protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled: Albedo is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Relocation: Relocation support for this position is available
Applicants must be a U.S. Person as defined under 22 CFR 120.62
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Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other underrepresented people tend to only apply when they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Albedo, we'd rather hear from you. We care more about how you think than which boxes you check. We value people who do the math, make their assumptions explicit, and ask the annoying questions: what breaks, what's the failure mode, what has to be true for this to work? If that sounds like you, apply, even if you don't meet every line.
Skills Required
- Experience in national security space or government acquisition, from industry business development/capture or government program management, contracting, or COTR roles
- Recent U.S. government experience
- Understanding of mission areas including ISR, GEOINT, SIGINT, AMTI, multi-domain killchains, space warfighting, or space domain awareness
- Demonstrated success supporting or leading capture campaigns
- Experience managing customer relationships and long-term campaigns
- Excellent communication skills across technical, operational, and executive audiences
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline
- Based in Broomfield, Colorado, or the National Capital Region
- Mission-domain fluency in VLEO, EO, active or passive RF, or SDA
- Existing network across government or intelligence community agencies and mission partners
- Experience supporting classified programs
- Product or mission integration experience
- Discretion and sound judgment in sensitive environments
- Active security clearance
- U.S. Person status and authorization to work in the United States
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The Company
What We Do
Albedo is the first space company to commercialize and provide platform capabilities to the new orbit regime of VLEO. VLEO — very low Earth orbit — transforms satellite capabilities by operating twice as close to Earth, enabling dramatic improvements in performance while reducing system costs. Albedo’s first satellite Clarity-1 — launched in March 2025 and now operating in VLEO — exemplifies the disruptive potential of the company’s proprietary VLEO platform. Clarity-1 delivers imagery at a resolution previously exclusive to drones & aircraft or billion-dollar classified satellites, while showcasing a platform that can support a variety of mission types. The world is rapidly changing and a new level of visibility and transparency is required to solve some of our largest problems. Albedo’s 10cm visible and 2m thermal imagery will fuel insights for industries such as mapping, insurance, utilities, solar, agriculture, carbon offsets, infrastructure sustainability, national security, and much more.
