Business Developer

As the Business Development Manager at cosine you play a key role in shaping and growing our presence in the Italian New Space market. You help turn advanced optical instrumentation into meaningful customer solutions that end up in space, supporting missions for leading commercial and institutional customers.

You work closely with the Remote Sensing Director and act as a key interface between customers and our technical teams. From early-stage opportunity identification to proposal, negotiation and contract closure, you help drive the full commercial cycle of highly innovative space instrumentation projects.

In a small and growing organization like cosine Italy, your impact is immediate and visible. You take ownership, build structure, and help define how we engage with the market while working on technology that is quite literally launched into orbit.

Tasks & responsibilities

In this role you will:

• Identify, develop and follow up on new business opportunities in the space and remote sensing market
• Prepare and coordinate high-quality proposals, tenders and commercial offers
• Build and maintain strong relationships with commercial and institutional customers
• Support the positioning and further standardization of cosine’s product and service offering
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams to align technical solutions with customer needs

Your profile

We are looking for candidates with the following qualifications:

• A technical background (e.g. engineering, physics or similar) combined with strong commercial drive
• Experience in business development, sales engineering or account management in a high-tech environment
• Ability to understand complex technical systems and translate them into clear customer value
• Comfortable working in a small, entrepreneurial organization with a high level of ownership
• Proactive, hands-on and flexible mindset with strong organizational skills
• Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities
• Fluent in English and Italian, both witten and verbal

What we offer

At cosine, we highly value our employees, and we will support your professional and personal development. We also provide our employees with:

• A unique, international working environment at the intersection of physics and engineering
• The opportunity to deliver end-to-end solutions in autonomous project teams, in close collaboration with customers
• A competitive salary with an annual bonus based on individual and company performance
• 20 days of annual leave (based on full-time employment)
• 13 th month salary payment
• Hybrid working options, including the possibility to work partially from home

About cosine

cosine transforms high-stake measurement challenges into scalable, real-world solutions.

What sets cosine apart is its integrated approach, linking insight, science, and engineering to deliver solutions that work in the real world, enable science and make an impact for humanity. Backed by over 25 years of heritage, expertise and deep systems thinking, cosine guides partners from defining the real need to deploying reliable, precision-built technologies that enable progress across space and planet.

What makes cosine a unique place to work is that your work goes end-to-end: from concept and design to building, testing, and delivering hardware that actually flies in space. You work in small, highly skilled teams where you have real ownership and impact, alongside experts in optics, physics, nanofabrication, and systems engineering.

Join out innovative and highly skilled team. We are looking forward to hear from you.