Jobs at Planet

Owns complex quote support and quote-to-cash operations across global sales organizations. Ensures compliance with SOX, revenue recognition, and booking policies while advising Sales, Finance, Legal, and Systems teams. The role analyzes operational data, standardizes processes, leads scalable improvements, supports audit readiness, and influences revenue strategy and system design.

Leads spacecraft systems engineering across customer mission requirements, system-level budgets, feasibility studies, satellite assembly, integration, testing, verification, and validation. Coordinates Mechanical, Thermal, ADSCS/GNC, Propulsion, Electrical, Manufacturing, Mission Operations, and data product teams. Supports environmental, functional, and end-to-end testing, anomaly resolution, design reviews, and ground-system integration for satellite missions and constellations.

Lead go-to-market strategy, positioning, and messaging for Planet's AI capabilities. Translate technical AI features into buyer value, drive product-market fit, produce sales enablement assets, and partner with Product, Sales, and Marketing to launch AI-powered geospatial products. Hybrid role based in San Francisco or Washington D.C.

Generate qualified enterprise and government account leads for Account Executives across North America. Research target accounts, identify stakeholders, create engagement strategies, develop account plans, and execute messaging sequences. Build familiarity with Planet’s satellite imagery and cloud data platform, communicate business value, achieve monthly performance targets, and ensure seamless handoffs to Account Executives. The role collaborates with Account Executives and field marketing in a hybrid San Francisco office environment.

Implements and audits quality management systems, develops inspection protocols, supports production troubleshooting, and leads root-cause analysis for manufacturing nonconformances. The role monitors quality metrics, conducts PFMEA and Lean Kaizen activities, improves process capability, manages MRB and supplier corrective actions, prepares audit materials, authors technical documentation, and mentors quality technicians while partnering with engineering, manufacturing, testing, maintenance, and supply chain teams.

Leads and scales multidisciplinary engineering teams developing mission-critical defense and intelligence software from satellite imagery and APIs. Owns architecture, data models, AI/ML integration, deployment pipelines, system reliability, SLAs, and ITAR/EAR compliance. Partners with product and executive leadership to deliver geospatial analytics, real-time alerting, automated detection, and agentic workflows across commercial and sovereign cloud environments.

Analyze and visualize data to solve product, business, and operational problems. Define performance metrics with stakeholders, develop and maintain accurate data models, and build datasets, dashboards, self-service tools, and data pipelines. The role uses SQL, Python, Git, dbt, and Omni, supports geospatial and enterprise data analysis, and contributes to a collaborative team through discussions and code reviews.

Lead Planet’s global Revenue Operations organization as a strategic partner to the CRO. Own forecasting, pipeline management, sales productivity, quota and territory planning, compensation, workforce planning, GTM processes, and AI adoption across the customer lifecycle. Align Sales, Marketing, Product, and Finance while scaling operations toward $1 billion in revenue, improving data architecture and operational efficiency, and building a collaborative global team.

Design and optimize complex satellite PCB and PCBA layouts for RF, microwave, power, digital, analog, and mixed-signal systems. Manage Altium libraries, fabrication and assembly documentation, configuration control, material and process selection, and vendor coordination. Ensure high-quality, high-reliability production meeting IPC standards, review subcontractor layouts, and support DFM, DFT, and design rule checks. The role is hybrid in San Francisco and involves export-controlled information.

Lead Planet's global talent acquisition strategy and team, build recruiting operating models (capacity planning, forecasting, analytics), manage systems and external partners, partner with executives to deliver hiring outcomes, champion inclusive candidate experience, and use data to measure and improve hiring performance across regions.

Own the Defense and Intelligence tasking product roadmap, translating mission rules into satellite collection workflows and reusable platform capabilities. Partner with field engineers, platform product teams, sales, compliance, and security to prioritize integrations, optimize tasking strategies, reduce latency, and support export-control and national-security requirements.

Own the product connection between Planet’s shared platform and Defense & Intelligence mission solutions. Partner with field engineers to convert recurring customer needs into reusable platform capabilities, prioritize mission requirements, maintain a D&I roadmap, and develop packaged offerings aligned with defense procurement and operational models.

Lead export/import compliance for a satellite/aerospace company: manage DDTC/BIS licensing, classify technology, review and approve shipments, train stakeholders, interface with US agencies, develop policies and controls, support audits and investigations, and partner with supply chain, engineering, and legal teams to mitigate trade risks.

Manage and grow a book of commercial accounts (agriculture and mapping verticals) by driving value realization, renewals, and expansions. Build success plans, deliver QBRs, coordinate cross-functional teams, and act as a strategic partner bridging technical geospatial workflows with commercial outcomes. Hybrid role based in San Francisco or Washington DC.

Leads customer and partner storytelling across video, written case studies, blogs, social content, webinars, and presentations. Manages multimedia production from concept through final approval, coordinates internal teams and external vendors, develops customer advocacy pipelines, and integrates stories into marketing campaigns. Tracks content performance and program insights while translating technical use cases into compelling, human-centered narratives.

Lead and grow a team of four product managers owning Planet's imagery portfolio. Set strategy across monitoring, high-res, hyperspectral, and mosaics/ARD products; drive cross-organizational alignment, customer discovery, product planning, metrics, and delivery with Engineering, GTM, and Space Systems to deliver measurable customer and business value.

Lead a founding engineering squad to productize geospatial AI into a reliable AI Geospatial Assistant. Own hiring, team operations, evaluation-led development, cross-functional roadmapping, mentorship, and translating research prototypes into production-grade systems focused on forensics and change detection.

As an Opto-Mechanical Engineer, you will design optical payloads for satellites, ensuring performance and manufacturability while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Manage full lifecycle of sales contracts and supplier subcontracts including negotiation, drafting, execution, administration, risk identification/mitigation, compliance with FAR/DFAR/NFS and export controls, stakeholder coordination, proposal support, audit assistance, and contract closeout across domestic and international customers.

Build and deploy production-grade enterprise AI applications, agentic workflows, and foundational AI infrastructure (AI Gateway, Agent Registry). Integrate LLM platforms (Gemini, Claude), manage cloud deployments on GCP/AWS, enforce ITAR/EAR compliance, implement logging/monitoring, collaborate with Security and Legal, and drive company-wide AI adoption.