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MANAGER, STARLINK LOCAL GROWTH (U.S.)
Starlink is a revolutionary satellite constellation delivering low-latency broadband internet around the world—bringing an unprecedented opportunity to significantly impact communities, businesses, and governments worldwide. In the United States, Starlink is rapidly expanding access to high-speed internet for rural, suburban, and underserved communities.
The Growth Team is seeking a Manager, Local Growth (US) to build and lead Starlink’s on-the-ground growth organization across the country. This role will be responsible for designing, hiring, and scaling a distributed team of regional and state-level growth leaders focused on driving consumer subscriber acquisition through partnerships, field marketing, local distribution, and community-driven initiatives. This leader will define Starlink’s local go-to-market strategy in the U.S.—owning how we launch, scale, and win markets at the state and regional level. The role requires building repeatable playbooks for local expansion while empowering teams to execute with speed and autonomy in highly varied rural and suburban environments. The ideal candidate is a highly entrepreneurial operator with deep experience building and scaling field-based growth, business development, or market expansion teams—particularly in consumer technology, telecommunications, marketplaces, or subscription-based businesses. This is a unique opportunity to build Starlink’s local growth engine from the ground up and directly accelerate broadband adoption across the United States.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Own Starlink’s U.S. local growth strategy, accountable for subscriber growth across states and regions
- Build, hire, and lead a high-performing team of regional and state-level growth leaders
- Design scalable playbooks for local market growth customer acquisition business models
- Define priority markets across rural, suburban, and underserved communities
- Establish and scale local acquisition channels including new partnerships (e.g., affiliates, local businesses)
- Oversee field marketing, events, and grassroots growth initiatives
- Drive partnerships from opportunity identification through execution
- Develop partner pipeline unlocking scalable distribution
- Track subscriber growth, partner productivity, and return-on-investment
- Collaborate cross-functionally to align on go-to-market
- Build feedback loops to inform product and pricing
- Lead growth experimentation across markets
- Represent Starlink externally with local channel partners and stakeholders
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree
- 5+ years of experience in growth, business development, sales, marketing, consulting, or operations
- 2+ years of direct people management experience
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
- 8+ years of experience in growth, business development, sales, marketing, consulting, or operations
- 3+ years building local, distributed teams starting from zero
- Experience scaling local or regional growth teams (rideshare, marketplaces, telecom, etc.)
- Experience working with consumer technology, telecommunications, broadband, utilities, or subscription-based services
- Deep understanding of rural consumer acquisition
- Track record building successful field-based teams
- Experience building partnerships and distribution channels
- Success launching products across multiple markets
- Strong execution in ambiguous environments
- Strong analytical and ROI tracking skills
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills
- Entrepreneurial mindset
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Must be available to work extended hours and weekends as needed
- Willingness to travel approximately 50% - 75% or more of the time to customer locations and other SpaceX locations
ITAR REQUIREMENTS:
- To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.
SpaceX is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with SpaceX is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
Applicants wishing to view a copy of SpaceX’s Affirmative Action Plan for veterans and individuals with disabilities, or applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application/interview process should reach out to [email protected].
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- 5+ years of experience in growth, business development, sales, marketing, consulting, or operations
- 2+ years of direct people management experience
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity grants are a core part of total compensation, with periodic company-run tender offers that create liquidity before any public listing. These mechanisms can make the equity component feel materially valuable in practice.
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Healthcare Strength — The package includes comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with on-site clinics and health resources at major sites. This breadth of coverage is presented as a strong element of the offering.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Major locations feature on-site amenities such as fitness facilities, food/coffee, clinics, and other conveniences. These lifestyle perks enhance day-to-day value alongside cash and equity.
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SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk to revolutionize space transportation, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary. SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company ever to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in December 2010. The company made history again in May 2012 when its Dragon spacecraft attached to the International Space Station, exchanged cargo payloads, and returned safely to Earth — a technically challenging feat previously accomplished only by governments. Since then Dragon has delivered cargo to and from the space station multiple times, providing regular cargo resupply missions for NASA.







