Director Business Development - Aviation

The real world is the next frontier and at Metropolis we are creating the artificial intelligence to make it responsive. We are pioneering the Recognition Economy — a future where mundane repetition disappears and being known unlocks access comfort and belonging everywhere you go. From transforming parking into a seamless drive-in drive-out experience for millions of Members to expanding our intelligence layer across retail and hospitality we are building a world that feels instinctive and magical. The future isn’t coming; it’s here and we need builders innovators and problem solvers to help us create it.

Metropolis is seeking a strategic and dynamic Director Business Development - Aviation to join our fast-growing team. As a key individual contributor on the Airports revenue team you will partner with our Vice Presidents of Aviation to deploy our integrated platform at over 75 airports in the U.S. and participate in net-new business RFPs. This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in expanding Metropolis’s presence as we revolutionize the passenger experience at airports with computer vision. You’ll leverage your analytical skills attention to detail and business development experience to advance and ultimately close key deals that transform our organization.

• Support the full sales cycle from initial pitch through contract execution
• Manage end-to-end sales pipelines for cycles ranging from 6 to 24+ months maintaining full accountability for personal deal flow and prospecting
• Collaborate on high-stakes aviation accounts serving as the strategic second chair to the VP of Aviation to navigate and close complex enterprise-level deals
• Represent Metropolis at national and local industry events
• Deploy a solutions-based and product-led approach that uncovers pain points of our airport partners and translates them into actionable financial and operating proposals
• Lead or co-lead customer presentations including discovery sessions and proposal delivery in person and virtually
• Build upon and create new relationships across key stakeholders inside our existing and prospective airport partners to build internal support and advocacy 
• Work cross-functionally with our deal desk team on complex underwriting and financial modeling and collaborate with additional internal teams such as Marketing Operations and Legal to drive deals forward to execution
• Monitor and manage pipeline development and sales performance metrics in Salesforce CRM; be fully accountable for providing Salesforce inputs to ensure accurate forecasting
• Continuous education on our product and how it operates in the field; plan to spend at least one day per month at one of our airports with our operations team members

• 7+ years in B2B business development and/or sales which may include expertise in government affairs or commercial development; ideally experience selling hardware and software solutions not just one-time product sales
• Highly analytical and proven experience in financial underwriting and modeling 
• Proficient with Salesforce and associated reporting and tools to manage pipeline
• Skilled in managing complex multi-threaded deals with sales cycles as long as 24+ months
• Creative approach to communicating value propositions across diverse audiences
• Experience working with cross-functional teams throughout a deal cycle including product engineering marketing operations legal and finance
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills
• Willingness to travel at least 25-50% of the time

• Experience selling into airports and/or government organizations
• Experience working in a high-growth fast-paced tech organization
• Passion for the aviation industry

4 Days in Office: Metropolis values in-person collaboration to drive innovation strengthen culture and enhance the Member experience. Our corporate team members hold to our office-first model which requires employees to be on-site at least four days a week fostering organic interactions that spark creativity and connection.

When you join Metropolis you'll join a team of world-class product leaders and engineers building an ecosystem of technologies at the intersection of parking mobility and real estate. Our goal is to build an inclusive culture where everyone has a voice and the best idea wins. You will play a key role in building and maintaining this culture as our organization grows. The anticipated base salary for this position is $160000.00 USD to $175000.00 USD annually. The actual base salary offered is determined by a number of variables including as appropriate the applicant's qualifications for the position years of relevant experience distinctive skills level of education attained certifications or other professional licenses held and the location of residence and/or place of employment. Base salary is one component of Metropolis' total compensation package which may also include access to or eligibility for healthcare benefits a 401(k) plan short-term and long-term disability coverage basic life insurance a lucrative stock option plan bonus plans and more. #LI-KD1 #LI-Onsite

What We Do

Metropolis Technologies Inc. is an artificial intelligence company whose computer vision platform enables checkout-free payment experiences for the real world. Its proprietary AI-driven technology reaches more than 50 million customers while reducing costs increasing transparency and capturing additional revenue for real estate partners. Following its take-private acquisition of SP+ Metropolis is now the largest parking network in North America with more than 4000 locations. To learn more about Metropolis please visit www.metropolis.io.

Why Work With Us

We’re not your typical technology company. We’re world-class software and hardware engineers we’re neighborhood urbanists and operators we’re caring customer support specialists we’re nerdy data scientists and machine learning engineers we’re designers and architects… and many things in-between and beyond.

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