Senior Product Manager, Planet
High Resolution Imagery
$142.8-203.2k
Global daily Earth data provider
Be an early applicant
Global daily Earth data provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$142.8-203.2k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To image all of Earth’s landmass every day, and make global change visible, accessible and actionable.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate has a passion for applying Earth Observation to solve global challenges
- 6+ years of product management experience, ideally in Earth Observation, geospatial, or related technical domains
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field
- Excellent understanding of satellite imagery, remote sensing, or large-scale data products
- Experience balancing technical trade-offs and customer needs in complex product ecosystems
- Ability to align diverse stakeholders around strategy, priorities, and execution
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts into business value
- Superb analytical and problem-solving skills, with a data-informed decision-making approach
- Experience effectively collaborating with Engineering teams and delivering results
- Experience working with and meeting the needs of customers
- Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and prioritize appropriately
Desirable
- Experience with high-resolution, tasked EO products
- Background in remote sensing science, image processing, or geospatial data analysis
- Experience building and scaling core data or imagery products that serve multiple market segments
- Experience working closely with operations teams and understanding the realities of satellite or sensor constraints
What the job involves
- As the Senior Product Manager for High Resolution Imagery Products, you will own the strategy and roadmap for how we collect, process, and deliver global high resolution imagery
- This role bridges satellite operations, engineering, and commercial teams to ensure our core imagery product delivers maximum value to customers who rely on rapid revisit high resolution imagery for insights and decision-making. The
- Define and drive the end-to-end product strategy for high resolution imagery, aligning with company priorities and customer needs
- Evolve product requirements for Planet’s newly released Pelican mission and strategically make product decisions to ensure a smooth transition to Pelican from SkySat
- Define collection and product requirements for low-latency, high-res systems
- Prioritize improvements in cadence, image quality, coverage, cost, and latency, in support of company priorities
- Partner with image processing, quality, and engineering teams to improve imagery quality and delivery pipelines
- Analyze usage patterns and customer feedback to drive iteration on how we serve specific customer use cases and Planet solutions
- Interface with Platform and Tasking teams to drive delivery requirements for high-res missions
- Define success metrics and use data-driven insights to guide product decisions and communicate impact
- Champion the voice of the customer to ensure our imagery products enable solutions across industries and use cases
Application process
- Application Deadline: March 17, 2026 at 11:59pm PT
Our take
Planet’s high resolution, high frequency Earth-imaging satellites make daily changes in the earth more visible, allowing the company to provide quick turnaround geo-spatial data to its customers. The company was founded by a group of former NASA employees driven by a desire to make global change more actionable by rendering it more visible.
Planet operates the largest Earth-imaging satellite network available, putting it ahead of any competitors. Its landmass data is easy to access, requiring only a subscription from its members - who range from ecological organizations, to private companies and government bodies. The company is also supporting SES and Telesat on their space relay projects for NASA.
The current focus of Planet seems to be on employing its network towards climate and environmental issues. A partnership with Accenture comes with the goal of developing AI-powered geospatial intelligence tools to support sustainability projects; and the company's acquisition of Salo Sciences will allow it to develop offerings around enabling customers to quantify carbon stocks, monitor forest change, and mitigate climate risks.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
29% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2019
$184m
SERIES D
Apr 2015
$93m
SERIES C
Total funding: $342.1m
Company 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
Company HQ
South Beach, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Will Marshall
(CEO& Co-Founder)After a Ph.D. at UCSB and Postdoc at Harvard, they worked for almost 6 years as a NASA Scientist. They left in January 2012 to co-found Planet the following month.
Robbie Schingler
(CSO & Co-Founder)They took an MBA at Georgetown University before spending over 5 years at NASA. They left their Chief of Staff role in October 2011 to co-found Planet with Will.
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