A front-line growth role at a pioneering private aviation brand—focused on creating qualified meetings, new opportunities, and a real pipeline for the sales team.
About Sentient Jet
Sentient Jet has been shaping private aviation since 1999, when it introduced the Jet Card and helped create an entirely new category in the market. Today, Sentient Jet is known for thoughtful service, safety, innovation, and a premium client experience. For more than 26 years, the brand has continued to evolve how people access private aviation through flexible programs, digital booking tools, and a strong service heritage.
Why This Role Matters
The Business Development Representative sits at the front end of growth. In this role, you will partner with an assigned Sales Director to generate a qualified pipeline by creating meaningful prospect engagement, identifying fit, and setting high-quality meetings. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys proactive outreach, thoughtful research, and the energy of opening doors with senior level prospects.
What You’ll Do
- Generate pipeline for assigned Sales Director(s) by engaging both existing leads in our database and net new prospects outside the database.
- Use a multi-channel prospecting approach including calls, personalized email, and social selling to drive engagement and open qualified conversations.
- Research prospects and accounts against Sentient Jet’s ideal customer profile (ICP) and identify strong-fit opportunities.
- Qualify potential need, timing, and suitability before scheduling meetings for your associated Sales Director.
- Create, update, and maintain clean records in Salesforce, including lead, contact, activity, and opportunity data.
- Leverage a strong technology stack to prioritize activity, personalize outreach, and improve conversion.
- Partner closely with sales leadership and cross-functional teams to refine messaging, targeting, and follow-up strategy.
What Success Looks Like
Success Area
You’re Winning When…
Representative Measures
Activity
You are consistently creating enough top-of-funnel coverage.
Calls, conversations, and outreach execution
Meetings
You are delivering qualified introductions for Sales Directors.
Meetings set, held-meeting rate
Pipeline
Your work is turning into measurable commercial value.
Pipeline generated and influenced
Net-New Growth
You are opening doors beyond the current database.
New Salesforce opportunities created
Revenue Impact
The opportunities you help create progress and close.
Closed-won business influenced
What We’re Looking For
- A proactive, self-driven professional who is energized by outreach, prospecting, and opening new conversations
- Strong communication skills with the confidence to engage prospects by phone and the judgment to personalize outreach across channels
- Comfort working in a fast-paced, metric-driven environment where activity, meetings, and pipeline all matter
- An organized operator who can manage follow up, maintain clean CRM records, and move opportunities forward with discipline
- A coachable teammate who is curious, resilient, and eager to develop within a high-performance sales environment
- Experience in sales development, business development, inside sales, hospitality, luxury services, membership sales, or a similarly client-facing growth role is helpful
- Familiarity with Salesforce and modern prospecting tools is preferred; experience with technology such as Outreach, ZoomInfo, and Wealth Engine is a plus
Why Join Us
- Join a company that has helped define modern private aviation and continues to innovate in the category.
- Build foundational sales skills in a role that directly impacts revenue and offers clear visibility to leaders and Sales Directors.
- Work in an environment where professionalism, thoughtful service, and performance all matter.
- Play a meaningful role in helping a premium brand create exceptional client experiences from the very first conversation.
Career Path and Development
This role is designed as a strong entry point into private aviation sales. You will work closely with experienced Sales Directors, build deep prospecting and qualification capability, and develop commercial judgment in a premium, relationship driven category.
Additional Information
Competitive salary, paid time off, 401K, health/dental/vision/FSA, long-term and short-term disability insurance, life and AD&D insurance, tuition reimbursement, a contemporary work environment in our modern headquarters with an onsite cafeteria, gym, corporate shuttle to public transportation, dedicated co-workers, and the satisfaction of knowing you are part of a global leading Jet Card program.
This job description is a guideline for hiring, promotion and an overview of responsibilities for existing employees. It is not meant to be all-inclusive, and management reserves the right to change duties and responsibilities at any time.
Skills Required
- Proactive, self-driven approach to outreach and prospecting
- Strong verbal and written communication; confidence to engage prospects by phone
- Comfort working in a fast-paced, metric-driven environment
- Organized with ability to manage follow-up and maintain clean CRM records in Salesforce
- Coachable, curious, resilient team player
- Experience in sales development, inside sales, hospitality, luxury services, or membership sales
- Familiarity with Salesforce and modern prospecting tools
- Experience with Outreach, ZoomInfo, or Wealth Engine
Flexjet Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Flexjet and has not been reviewed or approved by Flexjet.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits include a dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 6%, with pilots eligible for added company retirement contributions and a deferred compensation program that begins after year three. Feedback suggests these features lift total retirement value beyond base pay for pilots and certified technicians.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Pilot work rules emphasize home basing across 115+ domiciles, company-paid positioning on scheduled days, no reserve or calls on days off, and the ability to keep hotel and airline points. A high per diem and company-paid training further support day-to-day quality of life.
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Pay Growth & Progression — Pay is considered to have improved for pilots in 2024+, with first-year totals rising and base pay viewed as good relative to some Part 135 operators. Feedback suggests several non-flying roles track at industry standard or slightly above, aligning with local market medians.
Flexjet Insights
What We Do
Flexjet first entered the fractional jet ownership market in 1995. Flexjet offers fractional jet ownership and leasing. Flexjet’s fractional aircraft program is the first in the world to be recognized as achieving the Air Charter Safety Foundation’s Industry Audit Standard, is the first and only company to be honored with 21 FAA Diamond Awards for Excellence, upholds an ARG/US Platinum Safety Rating and is IS-BAO compliant at Level 2. Flexjet’s fractional program fields an exclusive array of business aircraft—some of the youngest in the fractional jet industry, with an average age of approximately six years. In 2015, Flexjet introduced Red Label by Flexjet, which features the youngest fleet in the industry, flight crews dedicated to a single aircraft and the LXi Cabin Collection of interiors. To date there are more than 40 different interior designs across its fleet, which includes the Embraer Phenom 300, Challenger 350, the Embraer Legacy 450 and Praetor 500, Global Express, the Gulfstream G450, G500, G650 and G700, and the Aerion AS2 supersonic business jets. Flexjet is a member of the Directional Aviation family of companies. For more details on innovative programs and flexible offerings, visit www.flexjet.com or follow us on Twitter @Flexjet and on Instagram @FlexjetLLC.
