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Salary: USD 228,700 - 285,900 / annual
Planet is seeking a Senior Director of Product Management to lead the Defense and Intelligence (D&I) product portfolio. As the product leader for the company's fastest-growing business segment, you will define strategy, build roadmaps, and drive execution of flagship dual-use products including the Global Monitoring Service (GMS), Marine Domain Awareness (MDA) platforms, automated change detection feeds, and agentic workflows.
You will manage a dedicated team of product managers and partner directly with the Vice President of D&I Engineering and executive leadership to transform raw satellite imagery and API services into scalable, mission-critical software solutions. A core responsibility is ensuring these capabilities thrive as dual-use solutions, leveraging Planet's commercial platform to meet rigorous national security requirements. Your work will directly empower government, allied mission partners, and enterprise customers to make critical, time-sensitive decisions.
Key responsibilities include overseeing the full product lifecycle for the D&I portfolio, synthesizing market requirements from global defense customers, and defining pricing and packaging for intelligence solutions. You will translate high-level market vision and defense mission requirements into actionable product roadmaps for dual-use GMS and MDA lines while recruiting, mentoring, and managing a team of product managers. You will work seamlessly with D&I Engineering leadership, UX researchers, account executives, product marketing managers, and external government stakeholders to align product strategy with engineering execution and system designs. You will build dual-use tools that monitor geopolitical events, ensure marine security, and protect critical infrastructure.
Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history, delivering empirical information via a cloud-based platform to commercial, environmental, and humanitarian sectors. The company controls every component of hardware design, manufacturing, data processing, and software engineering.
This is a full-time, hybrid role requiring 3 days per week in either the San Francisco, CA or Arlington, VA office.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Typically 10+ years of relevant work experience and 8+ years of supervisory/leadership experience in defense, intelligence, geospatial, or aerospace sectors
- Demonstrated track record of scaling end-to-end dual-use or defense software applications (domain awareness, automated change detection, spatial monitoring platforms) from concept to launch
- Comprehensive knowledge of Defense and Intelligence mission frameworks, workflows, and user needs, specifically regarding broad area monitoring and Marine Domain Awareness (MDA)
- Experience collaborating directly with executive engineering leadership to translate high-level market vision and defense mission requirements into scalable engineering roadmaps
- Familiarity with navigating product development within environments governed by International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR)
- Effective written and verbal communication skills for articulating product strategy, requirements, and roadmaps to internal executive leadership, commercial partners, and external mission partners
- Active high-level government security clearance, or eligibility to obtain top-secret clearance upon hire
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Direct product experience defining requirements for integration of advanced machine learning models, analytics, or agentic workflows into commercial or defense product stacks
- Direct professional experience serving in the intelligence community, military, or related government agency
- Background in defining product requirements for secure government environments, air-gapped systems, or sovereign cloud deployments (e.g., AWS GovCloud/C2S)
- Experience with multi-sensor data fusion workflows, including optical satellite imagery and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
