Senior Sales Manager

Berlin · On-site

About this role

Your mission

At AIRMO, we're building the measurement stack across satellite, airborne, drone and ground systems that will make methane emissions visible, verifiable and comparable across the world's energy assets. We've closed our seed round, our first satellite launches in 2027, and we're already delivering methane monitoring for tier-one operators across Europe, MENA and Central Asia.

Role
The Senior Sales Manager owns the sales pipeline end to end: opening doors, running discovery, building proposals and closing deals, while helping shape product and company direction as part of the leadership group. This is a hands-on, in-the-deals role at a deep-tech company. The market is regulated, the technology is differentiated, and the mission is clear: help bend the curve on the fastest-acting greenhouse gas by giving industry and regulators data they can trust. The team is growing, so this is also a chance to shape what the AIRMO commercial function becomes.

Responsibilities
  • Pipeline and closing: own the sales cycle across AIRMO's offerings (site assessment, Global Insights, satellite/airborne services), from outreach, discovery and proposals through negotiation and close. You are in the deals, not directing from the side.
  • Revenue ownership: accountable for the commercial number, including pipeline conversion, signed contracts and revenue against target.
  • Commercial process: build a repeatable, documented sales motion, including CRM discipline, qualification and forecasting, that the team can run and scale.
  • Team building: grow the commercial team over time by defining roles, hiring, onboarding and managing sales and BD people as the function expands.
  • Leadership contribution: as part of the leadership team, feed commercial insight into product direction, pricing and company strategy.

Team & Reporting
  • You report directly to the CEO.
  • You are the key member of the commercial function. As it grows, sales and BD hires report to you, and the team expands under your leadership.
  • You coordinate closely with Country leads, product and technical teams but own the commercial outcome across them.
  • Marketing and customer success move under your remit as the function matures toward the CCO scope.

Your profile

Must have
  • 5+ years of B2B sales experience with a track record of closing enterprise deals. This is a hands-on closer role, not a strategy role.
  • Experience selling to industrial, energy or regulated markets (oil & gas, utilities, industrial infrastructure, ESG / environmental compliance, or similar)
  • Proven ability to own a pipeline end to end: outreach, qualification, technical discovery, proposal, negotiation, close
  • CRM discipline and confidence running a pipeline
  • Comfortable operating at C-level and technical-buyer levels in the same deal
  • Fluent English, good German

Nice to have
  • Experience in deep tech, remote sensing, satellite data or hardware-enabled services
  • Familiarity with methane regulation (EU Methane Regulation, OGMP 2.0) or broader emissions / ESG data markets
  • German or a MENA / Central Asian language
  • Prior experience building a sales function from small-team to scaled

Mindset
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and with writing the playbook as the company grows
  • Direct, honest, unafraid of hard conversations with customers or internally

Why us?

About us

AIRMO is a European climate-tech company using space and airborne technologies to monitor greenhouse gas emissions globally. Our instruments — combining LiDAR and hyperspectral imaging — detect and quantify methane and CO₂ emissions from industrial sites, pipelines, and national infrastructure.
We’re building a global monitoring system from ground to space, helping energy companies, governments, and investors take real action on climate impact.

Company at a glance

AIRMO is an international climate and space tech company with German roots. We monitor methane emissions using proprietary instruments: spectrometer and atmospheric LiDAR. Our machine learning learning algorithm runs processing enabling leakage detection and quantification.

We use in-house built instruments to measure methane from the ground, from the air, and - starting next year - from space.

We are a VCs and European Space Agency (ESA) backed startup with the goal to become the global leader in methane emissions monitoring.

Founded2022
Team Size11-50 employees
WorkspaceOn-site
IndustrySpace Research and Technology
Location
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Websiteairmo.io
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