Technical Program Manager

Responsibilities

• Orchestrate cross-functional efforts across teams such as engineering, product, design, marketing, enablement, and customer support for major go-to-market releases.
• 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 & 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 contributes to Planet's mission to use space to help life on Earth by managing the development of their Insights Platform, which delivers satellite data to commercial, environmental, and humanitarian sectors to solve world's toughest obstacles.

• 4+ years of software development or program management experience in the areas of SaaS, platform development, APIs, Analytics, or UX.
• Experience leading cross-functional projects across a broad organization.
• Experience with the product life cycle: concept through development, launch preparation, go-to-market, deprecations, 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.

• Paid time off including vacation, holidays and company-wide days off
• Employee Wellness Program
• Home Office Reimbursement
• Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
• Equity
• Volunteering Paid Time Off

Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history, delivering data via a cloud-based platform to commercial, environmental, and humanitarian sectors to develop technologies, drive revenue, power research, and solve world's toughest obstacles.