Customer Success Manager, Defence & Intelligence

Reposted 3 Days Ago
28 Locations
Remote
6-6
Senior level
Aerospace • Big Data • Greentech • Hardware • Social Impact
Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites on Earth.
The Role
Manage customer relationships in the Defence & Intelligence segment, ensuring customer satisfaction, facilitating onboarding, and coordinating contract renewals and service delivery.
Summary Generated by Built In

Welcome to Planet. We believe in using space to help life on Earth.

Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history. This constellation delivers an unprecedented dataset of empirical information via a revolutionary cloud-based platform to authoritative figures in commercial, environmental, and humanitarian sectors. We are both a space company and data company all rolled into one.

Customers and users across the globe use Planet's data to develop new technologies, drive revenue, power research, and solve our world’s toughest obstacles.

As we control every component of hardware design, manufacturing, data processing, and software engineering, our office is a truly inspiring mix of experts from a variety of domains.

We have a people-centric approach toward culture and community and we strive to iterate in a way that puts our team members first and prepares our company for growth. Join Planet and be a part of our mission to change the way people see the world.

Planet is a global company with employees working remotely world wide and joining us from offices in San Francisco, Washington DC, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, and The Netherlands.

About the Role:  

The Customer Success team at Planet is seeking a new Customer Success Manager to maintain relationships with customers in our strongly growing EMEA Defence and Intelligence segment.  Your mission will be to act as our main point of contact and trusted advisor for our customers during their time with Planet and focus on client retention. The ideal candidate is a self-starter, creative thinker, and a great communicator. Maintaining a human-centered approach, you will help drive value realization and return on the client’s investment. In addition, you will grow and utilize your defence & intelligence domain expertise and good working knowledge of remote sensing, GIS and geospatial imagery products to be our customer’s go-to Planet ambassador.

This is a full-time, remote position based in Europe. If located near an office, you are expected to work from that office 3 days per week.

Impact You’ll Own:

  • 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

What You Bring:

  • Experience successfully managing customer relationships or projects
  • 6+ years of experience in Customer Success, account management or similar
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, the language of the company
  • Ability to successfully communicate and coordinate with international customers & sales teams
  • Experience working with defence and intelligence customers across the EMEA region
  • Excellent problem-solving skills, proactive work style, and ability to work independently
  • Ability to multitask and prioritize job requirements
  • Ability to travel internationally
  • Experience operating within a classified environment
  • Ability to obtain and maintain NATO security clearance

What Makes You Stand Out:

  • Working proficiency in another European language 
  • Experience in earth observation and related fields
  • Experience working with government customers
  • Working knowledge of geospatial technologies, GIS or Remote Sensing
  • Experience as an intelligence professional, imagery analyst or related field
  • Experience working with, or in, NATO

Application Deadline:

November 4, 2025 by 23:59 Pacific Time (11:59 PM PT)

Benefits While Working at Planet:

These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy.

  • Paid time off including vacation, holidays and company-wide days off 
  • Employee Wellness Program 
  • Home Office Reimbursement
  • Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
  • Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
  • Equity 
  • Volunteering Paid Time Off
#LI-REMOTE

Why we care so much about Belonging. 
We’re dedicated to helping the whole Planet, and to do that we must strive to represent all of it within each of our offices and on all of our teams. That’s why Planet is guided by an ultimate north star of Belonging—dreaming big as we approach our ongoing work.  If this job intrigues you, but you’re thinking you might not have all the qualifications, please... do apply!  At Planet, we are looking for well-rounded people from around the world who can contribute to more ways than just what is listed in this job description.  We don’t just fill positions, we aspire to fulfill people’s careers, most excited about folks who are motivated by our underlying humanitarian efforts.  We are a few orbits around the sun before we get to where we want to be, so we hope you’re excited to come along for the ride. 

EEO statement:
Planet is committed to building a community where everyone belongs and we invite people from all backgrounds to apply. Planet is an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Know Your Rights.

Accommodations: 
Planet is an inclusive community and we know that everyone has their own needs. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation during the hiring process, please reach out to [email protected] or contact your recruiter with your request. Your message will be confidential and we will be happy to assist you.

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Privacy Policy (European Applicants): By clicking "Apply Now" at the top of this job posting, I acknowledge that I have read the Candidate Privacy Notice GDPR Planet Labs Europe, and hereby consent to the collection, processing, use, and storage of my personal information as described therein.

Top Skills

Geospatial Technologies
Gis
Remote Sensing
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The Company
San Francisco, CA
747 Employees
Year Founded: 2010

What We Do

You can’t fix what you can’t see. Planet believes in using space to help life on Earth. We design, build, and operate a constellation of earth-imaging satellites that deliver a dataset of geospatial imagery used to help solve the worlds most critical problems. Planet is passionate about building a community of diversity, belonging and inclusion.

Why Work With Us

Do you want to be a part of a mission-driven agile aerospace company? Planet’s team is an inspiring mix of experts from a variety of domains, who control every component of hardware design, satellite manufacturing, image processing, and software engineering. We strive to put our team members first and foster empowering careers in space technology.

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