Jobs at Planet

Manage vendor, supplier, and customer agreements using legal playbooks, templates, and approval guidelines. Draft and negotiate contracts, escalate legal issues, conduct research, and prepare memos. Maintain contract management systems and legal processes, support proposal documentation, and coordinate with global stakeholders. The role is hybrid in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and requires access to applicable U.S. export-controlled information.

Designs and presents geospatial solutions using satellite imagery for Australian and New Zealand defense and intelligence customers. Advises technical and executive stakeholders, supports tenders and proposals, leads customer engagements, collaborates with sales and product teams, and represents customer needs internally. The role also mentors team members, delivers workshops, processes imagery and geospatial data, and supports technical sales objectives. It is remote in Australia with up to 50% travel and requires Australian security clearance eligibility.

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 Planet’s Middle East sales organization and go-to-market strategy across defense, national security, and government sectors. Owns regional revenue growth, complex deal capture, forecasting, pipeline governance, and executive relationships across ministries, intelligence agencies, and prime contractors. Builds and coaches a high-performing sales team, recruits talent, and coordinates with government affairs, product, engineering, legal, marketing, pre-sales, and post-sales teams to secure and expand strategic accounts.

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.

Leads pre-sales engagements for Earth observation solutions across the Middle East and North Africa. Discovers customer needs, delivers technical demonstrations, advises government and commercial stakeholders, supports tenders and RFPs, develops account strategies, coordinates cross-functional teams, manages pipeline communications, and mentors team members. Requires expertise in GIS, remote sensing, imagery processing, Python, geospatial software, and government or commercial Earth observation communities.

Own and grow Planet’s government sales pipeline and customer base in France, focusing on the French Ministry of the Armed Forces and French Armed Forces. Prospect, qualify, negotiate, and close software and SaaS deals; manage government procurement and contracting; forecast pipeline; develop proposals and demonstrations; and collaborate with marketing, solution engineering, customer success, and post-sales teams. The role requires strong government and defense sales experience, military intelligence knowledge, French fluency, and eligibility for security clearance.

Develop and productionize machine learning algorithms that extract insights from satellite imagery time series for agriculture, land management, and climate applications. Own model validation, marker quality, production deliveries, and codebase improvements. Explore embeddings and AI-agent workflows, collaborate with scientists and engineers, document methods, and prepare research, client, and public-facing reports.

Lead and execute environmental qualification and acceptance testing for spacecraft at the Berlin site, including vibration, shock, thermal cycling, and TVAC. Own test readiness, instrumentation, data acquisition, real-time anomaly assessment, recovery plans, and reporting. Coordinate technicians and cross-functional teams, validate facility capability, supervise GSE and fixture work, and drive continuous improvement of test processes.

Develop and execute industry marketing strategies for AI-powered satellite and geospatial solutions targeting defense and intelligence audiences across EMEA. Create positioning, messaging, content, sales enablement assets, demos, and competitive insights. Partner with sales, product, pre-sales engineering, account-based marketing, and executives to support launches, campaigns, proposals, events, and pipeline growth. Present internally and externally while translating technical capabilities into compelling narratives for military and government customers.

Develop, deploy, and maintain scalable distributed services and highly available APIs using Go, Java, and Python. Collaborate across engineering and product teams, write maintainable production code, participate in code reviews, and operate services using SRE practices. Responsibilities include observability, load testing, alerting, dashboards, incident response, and on-call support. The role also involves using cloud platforms, databases, containers, CI/CD pipelines, and AI-assisted development tools.

Build, deploy, and maintain scalable distributed services and highly available APIs using Go, Java, and Python. Collaborate with engineers and product managers, write maintainable production code, and participate in code reviews. Own service operations through observability, load testing, alerting, incident response, and on-call rotations. The role requires hybrid work three days weekly from offices in Berlin, Haarlem, or Ljubljana.

Architect and operate Planet’s enterprise identity infrastructure, including Okta, Auth0, and Keycloak. Build automated HR-driven joiner, mover, and leaver workflows using Python or Go, infrastructure-as-code, and provisioning connectors. Improve reliability through automation, incident response, root-cause analysis, and self-healing systems. Partner with Security and IT teams to maintain secure, scalable, GDPR-compliant identity architecture using modern authentication protocols, PKI, certificates, and directory services.

Leads Planet’s sales organization across NATO and Nordic defense and government markets. Owns regional revenue targets, go-to-market strategy, pipeline governance, forecasting, complex negotiations, capture strategies, and partner ecosystems. Builds and coaches a high-performing sales team while collaborating with Government Affairs, Product, Engineering, Legal, Marketing, and post-sales teams. Requires extensive defense procurement expertise, executive relationships across NATO and European government institutions, and experience exceeding large enterprise quotas.

Own product marketing strategy for Planet’s Constellation Services portfolio, developing positioning, value propositions, messaging, ICPs, campaigns, and sales enablement assets. Collaborate with Product, Space, Business Development, Marketing, Sales, and Enablement teams to launch products, incorporate customer and competitive insights, support major opportunities, and communicate the value of satellite infrastructure and services to government, defense, intelligence, and enterprise customers.

Build and maintain full-stack systems for a global monitoring application supporting federal partners and satellite data access. Responsibilities include designing scalable backend services and frontend applications, improving architecture and infrastructure, integrating complex customer requirements, and owning mission-system quality and availability. The role requires collaboration across teams throughout the engineering lifecycle and experience with cloud infrastructure, observability, geospatial data, and complex integrations.

Lead cross-functional, end-to-end program execution for solutions development serving Defense and Intelligence customers. Build and manage schedules, metrics, risks, and dependencies; translate requirements between technical and non-technical stakeholders; drive decision-making, release delivery, and process improvements to scale operations.

Lead product marketing for Planet’s Global Monitoring Solutions serving defense, intelligence, and government customers. Own go-to-market strategy, launches, positioning, messaging, ideal customer profiles, campaigns, content, sales enablement, and product-market insights. Partner with Product, Sales, Industry Marketing, Enablement, and executives to translate complex AI, SaaS, geospatial, and monitoring capabilities into compelling customer narratives and usable assets.

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.

Drive complex, cross-functional technical programs from concept through delivery. Develop schedules, milestones, metrics, processes, and risk mitigation plans; coordinate Engineering, Product, Design, Space Systems, Enablement, Support, and customers. Translate technical and business requirements, manage dependencies, facilitate data-driven decisions, communicate program status, and improve operational processes. The role supports defense and intelligence solutions, custom deployments, and engineering release cycles in a hybrid Washington, DC or Denver office environment.