Senior Technical Program Manager Job Arlington Virginia USA,IT/Tech

Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history.

Key Responsibilities

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

Requirements

6+ years of software development or program management experience in the areas of SaaS, complex data life cycles, 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.
These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy.
Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
Generous Paid Time Off in addition to holidays and company-wide days off
16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Home Office Reimbursement
Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
Tuition Reimbursement and access to Linked In Learning
Equity
Commuter Benefits (if local to an office)