About the Role:
As a Technical Program Manager (TPM) at Planet, you will drive Planet’s largest, complex efforts that cross many teams and organizational boundaries. You will focus on execution of programs through the product life cycle. This role is focused on Planet’s Insights and Solutions offerings, such as Planetary Variables and analytic feeds. You will work with cross-functional teams, both technical and non-technical, to steer programs through go-to-market launches.
Impact You’ll Own:
- Partner with cross-functional teams such as engineering, product, marketing, and customer support for major releases
- Identify and translate business and technical requirements across stakeholders with communication clarity
- Scope and manage program dependencies; identify risks and proactively mitigate them; facilitate decision making through data-driven analysis and healthy debate
- Identify, design, implement, and refine processes for collaboration and communication; own change management across teams
- Drive for results by continuously improving ways of working and processes, now and for the future
- Be collaborative by aligning stakeholders to common goals
What You Bring:
- 8+ years of scientific or engineering experience
- Experience leading cross-functional projects with stakeholders across a broad organization and managing tight timelines
- Experience with the product life cycle: concept through development, launch preparation, and go-to-market, plus deprecations and end-of-life
- Solid analytical, problem-solving, and creative thinking skills paired with the ability to communicate findings and recommendations
- Equally comfortable and confident explaining your analyses and recommendations to business leaders as you are discussing technical trade-offs with engineers
- Experience with organizational change management, listening to your audience and meeting their current state with a plan for incremental change
- Ability to balance the tactical day-to-day with forward-looking improvements to scale operational efficiencies
What Makes You Stand Out:
- Experience with remote sensing, EO data, or imaging
- Experience in cloud computing, platform development and integrations, APIs, Analytics, or UX
- Demonstrated self-starter who initiates efforts and augments existing programs with new ideas
- Experience working with remote, distributed, worldwide teams
- A desire to improve processes, tools, and ways of working to scale development cycles
- A growth mindset and a desire to learn quickly
Benefits While Working at Planet:
- Additional company winter holidays and regular global days off
- Remote friendly work environment and flexible working hours
- Contribution to our growth by offering equity options for employees
- Giving back to the community - one day per quarter for charitable work
- Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
- Regular hack-weeks and meetup events to exchange knowledge
- Home office budget
- Employee Resource Groups providing empowering spaces for connection and mentorship
