Senior Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure

• Manage internal technology releases and migrations, focusing on Planet's high-scale infrastructure systems.
• Scope and manage program schedules and break those into incremental milestones.
• Facilitate development of product requirements with software teams.
• Translate requirements across business and technical stakeholders with communication clarity.
• Identify dependencies and risks and proactively mitigate them.
• Facilitate decision making through data-driven analysis and healthy debate.
• Communicate vertically and horizontally across Planet to keep stakeholders informed of progress, priorities, risks, and changes to requirements or plans.
• Drive for results by continuously improving ways of working and processes, now and for the future.

This role fosters the long-term maturity of the technical foundation that powers Planet's products and services, which deliver unprecedented data to help solve the world's toughest obstacles in environmental and humanitarian sectors.

• 6+ years of software development or program management experience in the areas of platform engineering or cloud-based infrastructure.
• Experience leading cross-functional projects and migrations across a broad organization.
• Experience partnering with engineers to develop and execute change management plans.
• Experience with the product life cycle: concept through development, launch, deprecation, and end-of-life.
• Analytical, problem-solving, and creative thinking skills paired with the ability to communicate findings and recommendations.
• Equally comfortable explaining your analyses and recommendations to business leaders as you are discussing technical trade-offs with engineers.
• Ability to balance the tactical day-to-day with forward-looking improvements to scale operational efficiencies.

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
• Generous Paid Time Off in addition to holidays and company-wide days off
• 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Home Office Reimbursement
• Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
• Equity
• Commuter Benefits (if local to an office)
• Volunteering Paid Time Off

Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history, delivering an unprecedented dataset of empirical information via a cloud-based platform to commercial, environmental, and humanitarian sectors to help solve the world's toughest obstacles.