Planet

Compliance

• Preparing export/import authorization requests required to support international sales and company operations, to include reviewing business documents to assist in scoping export-import authorizations to support business objectives
• Managing the full lifecycle of export/import authorizations, to include internal training/implementation, preparation and submission of post-approval regulatory filings, review of associated export activity, and associated recordkeeping
• Conducting export/import training and providing formal and informal communication/guidance to internal and external stakeholders regarding export/import compliance
• Serving as interface with U.S. government agencies in support of trade compliance initiatives
• Providing guidance and interpretation of US government regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR)
• Assisting in the development and implementation of policies and procedures, to include internal technology control plans
• Reviewing and approving international travel requests, foreign visit requests, and export/import transactions of hardware, data and services.
• Assisting in review of international trade compliance terms for proposals/contracts and providing recommendations
• Working with technical subject matter experts to document export classification order of review assessments and tracking new technology developments within the company
• Preparing/filing Commodity Jurisdiction Requests, Commodity Classification Requests, and Advisory Opinions, as needed
• Making formal presentations in meetings and/or training environments
• Negotiating export/import control matters with internal and external stakeholders and resolving in a win/win manner
• Supporting with sanctions and anti-bribery/anti-corruption compliance matters, when needed
• Supporting with conducting compliance audits/assessments/investigations, implementing corrective actions, and drafting findings/disclosures, as needed

Senior Analyst, International Trade Compliance

Product Manager

• 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

Senior Product Manager, High Resolution Imagery

AI Engineer

• Develop and optimize multimodal LLM applications
• Build embedding & similarity search pipelines at planetary scale—batch over xarray/Zarr cubes, index with BigQuery or PostGIS, etc.
• Fine‑tune multimodal foundation models (e.g. CLIP-like models, MAEs, ViTs) for Earth‑observation tasks: change detection, land‑cover, semantic search, object counting
• Design and execute machine learning workflows for geospatial analysis
• Define success criteria and model benchmarks, adding instrumentation and model versioning where appropriate
• Co‑design tool schemas & guardrails with backend engineers so LLM‑generated JSON plans execute safely
• Collaborate with research scientists and engineers to design innovative models for remote sensing applications
• Assist in automating the preprocessing and labeling geospatial data for AI tasks
• Evaluate and improve algorithms for feature detection and classification in satellite imagery
• Publish findings internally & externally (e.g. IGARSS, CVPR, etc.)

Staff Applied AI Engineer

• Optimize and drive efficiency in collection logic across all missions to guarantee alignment with and fulfillment of customer demand
• Maximize overall system capacity and collection throughput across all missions to scale the product offering
• Define and own the core scheduling logic with Missions, including prioritization rules, retry mechanisms, and deconfliction logic in the scheduling systems
• Validate and refine modeling assumptions in close partnership with Missions & Systems teams to ensure the accuracy and reliability of feasibility studies and capacity forecasts
• Design and maintain internal tools and visualization with Missions to streamline and optimize capacity planning, enabling proactive sales support and successful commercial execution
• Collaborate tightly with Tasking and Ordering PM to ensure the backend system architecture and functionality seamlessly support evolving customer offerings and product capabilities of tasking systems
• Lead feasibility studies for commercial planning, providing data driven insights to shape opportunities and strategic decisions

Product Manager – Collection and Capacity

Engineer

• Support Collection Planning team during operational planning process
• Prepare geospatial data, maps and dashboards
• Run & interpret standard and complex feasibility studies
• Develops, validates and automates operational tools
• Proactively improve existing processes
• Collaborates with image quality support, orbits, mission software, space operations, data pipeline and product teams

Satellite Tasking Engineer, Collection Planning

Solutions Engineer

• Technical Solution Design: Lead or contribute to the design of scalable, mission-driven satellite and geospatial solutions for U.S. government and defense customers. Translate complex customer requirements into clear technical concepts, proposals, and deliverables that highlight Planet’s value.
• Technical Support in Strategic Pursuits: Partner with the Space Systems and Business Development teams to support strategic pursuits—from initial technical discussions through to solution definition, negotiation, and contract execution. Provide pre-sales technical expertise and ensure proposed solutions align with Planet’s products and operational capabilities.
• Customer & Cross-Functional Engagement: Act as the technical liaison between customers and internal teams, ensuring strong alignment across engineering, product, operations, and mission delivery. Capture customer feedback and emerging mission needs to inform Planet’s product roadmap and technical strategy.
• Support for U.S. Strategic Initiatives: Contribute technical input to U.S.-based strategic projects such as mission partnerships, constellation integration, and technology demonstrations. Support Planet’s work with the U.S. government and DoD/IC community to advance adoption of commercial space capabilities.

Space Systems Solutions Architect

• Understand clients’ needs and deliver tailored solutions
• Break down ambiguous, high-stakes problems into clearly defined, solvable components
• Leverage analytical skills to deliver products to our D&I customers and support mission requirements
• Design workflows, defining data models, configuring integrations, and helping define tooling that aligns to the customer’s mission.
• Train users, iterate with them in real time, and ensure that Planet solutions become mission-critical to daily operations.
• Translate operational requirements into actionable product feedback for Planet’s engineering teams.
• Communicate technical capabilities back to customers in clear, mission-focused language.
• Rapidly prototype, test, and adjust workflows to match real operational needs.
• Mapping out high-level strategy with decision makers by sitting next to analysts to debug workflows.
• Work closely with customer teams to understand their workflows, pain points, and mission priorities.

Solutions Architect – Deployment Strategist

Solutions Architect, Deployment Strategist

Customer Success Manager

• Build and maintain strong, long-lasting customer relationships
• Assist customers to expand their usage and adoption of our products
• Onboarding and training of new clients
• Co-own contract renewal with sales
• Provide excellent customer experience, ensure successful delivery of our services, produce timely solutions according to customer needs and goals
• Communicate consistently with clients throughout the contract life-cycle, escalating important issues where needed
• Work closely with Sales Representatives and other teams across the company
• Bring in domain knowledge and be the trusted advisor to our Defence & Intelligence customers