Senior Technical Program Manager, Solutions

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: As a Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) at Planet, you will drive Planet’s largest, most complex efforts that cross many teams and organizational boundaries. You will act as an accelerant, illuminating the path for teams and owning the predictability of execution through the product lifecycle. You will work closely with team leads across multiple time zones to develop and manage end-to-end program plans, including processes, schedules, metrics and risks, and communicate them clearly to stakeholders. This role leads internal program management for Planet’s solutions in the DACH region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland), starting with a large, multi-year dedicated satellite constellation and sovereign platform deployment for a public-sector customer. You will be the accountable program owner for Product and Engineering, working alongside the customer-facing program manager to turn contract commitments into one coordinated plan across Product, Engineering, Infrastructure and Space Systems. The role grows with the DACH portfolio. Customer meetings and documents are in German, so native German is required. This is a full-time, hybrid role which will require you to work from our Berlin office 3 days per week. Impact You’ll Own: • Own the internal program plan for DACH deliveries: scope, schedule, incremental milestones with definitions of done, and the dependencies across teams. • Set up and maintain program governance: who is accountable for each workstream, decision levels and reporting. • Work daily with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, Tech Leads and other TPMs, and with the customer-facing program manager and Customer Success teams who own the customer relationship. • Translate customer requirements into clear technical requirements, and work with Product Managers to prioritize requests against the roadmap. • Run the program’s operating rhythm (cross-team syncs, go/no-go decisions, release coordination) so each meeting ends in decisions and owned actions. • Challenge plans for completeness, accuracy, and fit for purpose, and surface risks and conflicts between commitments, priorities and capacity while they are still small. • Keep stakeholders from engineering teams to leadership informed of progress, risks and changes, and escalate early when needed. • Improve ways of working so each future deployment is faster and more repeatable. What You Bring: • 6+ years of program management or software development experience in the areas of SaaS, cloud platforms, data products or geospatial systems, ideally including rem