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Salary: USD 260,500 - 325,600 / 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 an unprecedented dataset of empirical information via a cloud-based platform to authoritative figures in 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 work from the San Francisco, CA or Arlington, VA office 3 days per week.
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 stack
- 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 (AWS GovCloud/C2S)
- Experience with multi-sensor data fusion workflows, including optical satellite imagery and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
