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Leads Planet’s U.S. government affairs strategy focused on national security policy, congressional advocacy, appropriations, and agency engagement. Builds relationships with Congress, the White House, NRO, NGA, and other federal stakeholders; shapes policy and funding opportunities; communicates Planet’s space and data capabilities; and advises executive, sales, business development, and customer success teams. The role also identifies political and programmatic risks, develops partnerships, drafts policy positions, and advances government programs.

Embed within product, software, and data teams to translate ITAR/EAR and OFAC requirements into scalable product features and workflows; conduct export classification reviews; design technical access controls and KYC/restricted-party screening; manage compliance vendor contracts; maintain contemporaneous documentation; audit deployment and development workflows to enable secure, compliant rapid delivery.

Lead and mentor ML engineering teams building and maintaining production ML products (research-to-production, training/inference pipelines, MLOps). Partner with product, define processes, and ensure reliable shipping and operations in a hybrid, distributed environment.

Deliver and coordinate technical onboarding and live training for Latin America customers, reduce time-to-value, provide ongoing technical enablement, build trusted customer relationships, design and improve onboarding content and resources, and monitor engagement while coordinating cross-functional teams to ensure seamless adoption of Planet products.

Lead and grow a team of four product managers owning Planet's imagery portfolio. Set strategy across monitoring, high-res, hyperspectral, and mosaics/ARD products; drive cross-organizational alignment, customer discovery, product planning, metrics, and delivery with Engineering, GTM, and Space Systems to deliver measurable customer and business value.

Lead a founding engineering squad to productize geospatial AI into a reliable AI Geospatial Assistant. Own hiring, team operations, evaluation-led development, cross-functional roadmapping, mentorship, and translating research prototypes into production-grade systems focused on forensics and change detection.

As an Opto-Mechanical Engineer, you will design optical payloads for satellites, ensuring performance and manufacturability while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Build, maintain, and operate cloud-based services and automation for satellite operations. Manage infrastructure, design/deploy critical systems, support microservices and CI/CD workflows, ensure reliability and SLAs, collaborate with cross-functional teams to minimize operational burden and automate satellite operations.

Manage full lifecycle of sales contracts and supplier subcontracts including negotiation, drafting, execution, administration, risk identification/mitigation, compliance with FAR/DFAR/NFS and export controls, stakeholder coordination, proposal support, audit assistance, and contract closeout across domestic and international customers.

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.