Remote Senior Technical Program Manager

Summary

Join Planet and be a part of our mission to change the way people see the world. As a Technical Program Manager (TPM) at Planet, you will drive Planet’s largest, complex efforts that cross many teams and organizational boundaries.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

Benefits

• 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