Technical Program Manager, Planet

• 4+ years of software development or program management experience in the areas of SaaS, platform development, APIs, Analytics, or UX
• Experience leading cross-functional projects across a broad organization
• Experience with the product life cycle: concept through development, launch preparation, go-to-market, deprecations, and end-of-life
• Analytical, problem-solving, and creative thinking skills paired with the ability to communicate findings and recommendations
• Equally comfortable explaining your analyses and recommendations to business leaders as you are discussing technical trade-offs with engineers
• Ability to balance the tactical day-to-day with forward-looking improvements to scale operational efficiencies

Desirable

• 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 focus on execution of programs through the product life cycle. 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
• You will work with cross-functional teams, both technical and non-technical, to steer programs through go-to-market launches
• This role is focused on Planet’s Insights Platform development. This includes admin and provisioning systems; APIs; core platform features. You will work with product, SW, and cross-functional teams to execute development and releases
• Orchestrate cross-functional efforts across teams such as engineering, product, design, marketing, enablement, and customer support for major go-to-market releases
• Scope and manage program schedules and break those into incremental milestones
• Facilitate development of product requirements with software teams
• Translate requirements across business and technical stakeholders with communication clarity
• Identify dependencies and risks and proactively mitigate them
• Facilitate decision making through data-driven analysis and healthy debate
• Communicate vertically & horizontally across Planet 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

• Application Deadline: April 30, 2025 by 11:59 PM PT