Senior Product Manager, Mission Solutions

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.

Planet's Global Monitoring Service (GMS)  and Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) solutions drive actionable insights. As Senior Product Manager, Defense & Intelligence (D&I) Mission Solutions, you will own the connective tissue between Planet's shared platform and our Defense & Intelligence solutions. You will translate defense workflows into platform specs, ensuring core architectures support high-consequence operational environments. You will focus on technical delivery—partnering with Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) to build robust extension points and APIs. As the team grows, your scope will evolve into end-to-end vertical solutioning, including market packaging and long-term product strategy.

This is a full-time, hybrid role which will require you to work from our San Francisco, CA or Arlington, VA office 3 days per week.

• Partner with Forward Deployed Engineers on delivery: Help solve the right product challenges they hit in the field, and convert recurring customer-specific build patterns into durable, reusable GMS/MDA and core platform capability.
• Influence and help prioritize which mission requirements are worth building into the shared GMS/MDA platform versus solving for a single customer
• Keep D&I mission requirements visible against company-wide objectives, including how fast a tasked image becomes an insight and how fast a new site comes online.
• Scale Demand Intake: Consolidate inputs across field engineering, sales, and PM counterparts into a prioritized D&I product roadmap.
• Drive Vertical Product Strategy: Evolve GMS and MDA capabilities into packaged D&I offerings aligned with defense procurement and operational models.

• 6+ years of technical product management experience bridging core platform teams and technical field teams (FDE, Solutions Engineering).
• Proven understanding of geospatial data platforms, cloud architectures, APIs, extension layers, and analytics/ML pipelines.
• Proven ability to separate generalizable platform capabilities from one-off customizations.
• Background in geospatial intelligence, satellite tasking/monitoring, remote sensing, and defense technology.
• Track record of prioritizing backlogs across competing technical and operational demands.
• Ability to articulate technical trade-offs and mission impact to both engineers and executives.
• Ability to work independently with minimal oversight while managing multiple concurrent priorities.

• Experience scaling vertical product layers on top of shared platform infrastructure.
• Active or prior U.S. Security Clearance (Secret or TS/SCI).
• Operational experience within or supporting the U.S. Defense & Intelligence Community

November 19, 2026 at 11:59p PT

This position requires access to export-controlled information, and as such, employment (or hiring of a contractor) is contingent upon the candidate’s ability to access all applicable export-controlled information without additional export licensing being required by the Bureau of Industry and Security and/or the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.

Why we care so much about Belonging. 
We’re dedicated to helping the whole Planet, and to do that we must strive to represent all of it within each of our offices and on all of our teams. That’s why Planet is guided by an ultimate north star of Belonging—dreaming big as we approach our ongoing work.  If this job intrigues you, but you’re thinking you might not have all the qualifications, please... do apply!  At Planet, we are looking for well-rounded people from around the world who can contribute to more ways than just what is listed in this job description.  We don’t just fill positions, we aspire to fulfill people’s careers, most excited about folks who are motivated by our underlying humanitarian efforts.  We are a few orbits around the sun before we get to where we want to be, so we hope you’re excited to come along for the ride. 

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