Director, Strategic Initiatives - EMEA

Loft

Remote regions

EMEA

Benefits

7w PTO

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About the Role:

  • Own and advance Loft’s highest-impact growth opportunities in Europe and the broader EMEA sphere.
  • Lead complex, high-value pursuits and serve as Loft’s senior counterpart to institutional and commercial stakeholders.
  • Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Operations to ensure each partnership is executable.

Must Haves:

  • 8+ years of space industry experience, with direct ownership of business development, sales, partnerships.
  • Proven record of originating, shaping, and executing complex, multi-year partnerships bringing creative thinking to deal structures.
  • Demonstrated success in business development, strategic partnerships, corporate development, or adjacent M&A/JV initiatives within industry.

Nice to Haves:

  • Direct ownership of government, agency, or prime-led programs—from opportunity shaping through execution and delivery.
  • Established relationships across space primes, agencies, or NewSpace operators, with experience managing cross-border programs.
  • Knowledge of French, German, Spanish, and/or Arabic.

Loft

Loft provides governments, companies, and research institutions with a fast, reliable, and simple way to deploy missions in orbit. With more than 30 missions flown and a growing fleet on track to reach 30 satellites by 2027, they are scaling up quickly across their offices in San Francisco, CA | Golden, CO | and Toulouse, France to meet accelerating demand for space infrastructure.

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