Senior Technical Program Manager

Who you are

• 6+ years of software development or program management experience in the areas of 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 preparation, go-to-market, deprecations, and end-of-life
• Experience optimizing cross-team delivery cycles and establishing predictable execution patterns within a matrixed engineering organization
• Experience coordinating high-stakes technical programs across global timezones, with a focus on building asynchronous workflows and healthy decision-making cultures
• Track record of managing system migrations or service consolidations, specifically moving from fragmented legacy tools to unified platform endpoints
• Analytical, problem-solving, and creative thinking skills paired with the ability to communicate findings and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to balance the tactical day-to-day with forward-looking improvements to scale operational efficiencies
• Actively explores AI technologies to automate workflows, improve data, or enhance team productivity
• Experience with remote sensing, earth observation data, or geospatial systems
• Experience working with remote, 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

What the job involves

• 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
• 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
• Manage relationship, scope and approve work for external contract integration software developers
• Continuously identify dependencies and risks, and work with stakeholders to make them actionable while still small
• Facilitate decision making and healthy escalation through data-driven analysis and constructive debate
• Communicate vertically & horizontally across business and technical teams 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

Benefits

• Comprehensive health plan
• Wellness program and massages
• Flexible time off
• Recognition programs
• Commuter benefits
• Learning and tuition reimbursement
• Parental leave
• Offsites and happy hours
• Volunteering benefits