Senior Technical Program Manager-Platform
Senior Technical Program Manager leads cross-functional programs for Planet’s Insights Platform, focusing on data discovery, processing, and delivery. Bridges product, engineering, and design teams to execute roadmaps, manage timelines, and resolve dependencies for high-performance cloud-based services.
- Compensation
- $142.8K–$178.5K / yr
- Location
- US - Remote Eastern Standard Time
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Category
- Project management
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 6+ years of software development or program management experience in SaaS, complex data lifecycles, discovery/search engines, or cloud-based content delivery
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field
- Experience leading cross-functional projects across a broad organization
- Experience with the product lifecycle (concept through development, launch, deprecations, and end-of-life)
- Experience optimizing cross-team delivery cycles and establishing predictable execution patterns in matrixed engineering
- Experience coordinating high-stakes technical programs across global timezones with asynchronous workflows
- Track record of managing system migrations or service consolidations (legacy tools to unified endpoints)
Nice to have
- Experience with remote sensing, earth observation data, or geospatial systems
- Experience working with remote, worldwide teams
- Desire to improve processes, tools, and ways of working to scale development cycles
Full description
Welcome to Planet. We believe in using space to help life on Earth.
Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history. This constellation delivers an unprecedented dataset of empirical information via a revolutionary cloud-based platform to authoritative figures in commercial, environmental, and humanitarian sectors. We are both a space company and data company all rolled into one.
Customers and users across the globe use Planet's data to develop new technologies, drive revenue, power research, and solve our world’s toughest obstacles.
As we control every component of hardware design, manufacturing, data processing, and software engineering, our office is a truly inspiring mix of experts from a variety of domains.
We have a people-centric approach toward culture and community and we strive to iterate in a way that puts our team members first and prepares our company for growth. Join Planet and be a part of our mission to change the way people see the world.
Planet is a global company with employees working remotely world wide and joining us from offices in San Francisco, Washington DC, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, and The Netherlands.
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 act as an accelerant, focusing on illuminating the path for teams and owning the predictability of execution through the product lifecycle. You will work closely with team leads to develop and manage end to end program plans. This includes establishing and managing internal processes, schedules, metrics, risks, and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders.
This role is focused on Planet’s Insights Platform development. This includes leading the technical programs that power how customers find, process, and stream our data. You will focus on building new experiences to discover what is in our catalog and scaling the high-performance services that deliver data and insights directly to user applications.
This is a full-time, remote position requiring candidates to work within the Eastern Time (ET) zone.Impact You'll Own:
- Work with functions such as Product Managers, Tech Leads, Engineering Managers, Design, Data Science, and other Technical Program Managers.
- Drive product and engineering roadmap execution and delivery.
- Translate Product and Engineering inputs into realistic, capacity-checked timelines and reconcile commitments across teams to surface and resolve conflicts.
- Work closely with engineering to ensure product and design requirements are implemented to scope.
- Create and manage program schedules and break those into incremental, visible milestones with definitions of done.