Technical Onboarding Specialist

Planet; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 50.000 - 70.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading space and data company is seeking an Onboarding Specialist in Berlin. This full-time hybrid role focuses on improving customer onboarding experiences, collaborating with multiple teams, and delivering technical training. Candidates should have over 4 years of experience in customer-facing roles, strong technical skills, and the ability to create and maintain onboarding content. Exceptional organization and collaboration skills are essential. Join us to help customers effectively utilize our data and tools.

Leistungen

Paid time off including vacation

Employee Wellness Program

Home Office Reimbursement

Tuition Reimbursement

Equity

Qualifikationen

• 4+ years of experience in a customer-facing role.
• Experience creating and delivering technical trainings.
• Solid technical aptitude to explain concepts to non-technical audiences.

Aufgaben

• Implement and deliver tailored onboarding experiences.
• Coordinate onboarding kickoff calls with new customers.
• Design and maintain onboarding content and processes.

Kenntnisse

Customer onboarding

Technical training

Customer education

Coding or scripting in Python

Collaboration and stakeholder alignment

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Jobbeschreibung

Overview

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 Onboarding Specialist is responsible for owning and evolving Planet’s technical customer onboarding program, with the goal of reducing time to value and helping customers successfully adopt Planet data, tools, and workflows.

Sitting within the Education & Enablement team, this role works closely with Technical Support, Customer Success, Professional Services, Product, and Revenue Operations to deliver a consistent, scalable onboarding experience across customer segments. The Onboarding Specialist leads the coordination of technical onboarding activities, contributes to live onboarding delivery, and plays a central role in designing and maintaining onboarding content, campaigns, and processes.

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

• Implement Planet’s technical customer onboarding program by delivering tailored and scalable onboarding experiences, aligned to customer needs.
• Lead and coordinate cross-functional onboarding kickoff calls with new customers, ensuring clear alignment on goals, timelines, and next steps.
• Partner with Technical Support to ensure smooth user provisioning and a seamless handoff into technical onboarding activities.
• Deliver and coordinate technical onboarding trainings, including:
• Leading select live onboarding sessions
• Coordinating delivery across Education, Support, and other subject matter experts as appropriate
• Design, maintain, and improve scalable onboarding content and campaigns, including:
• Automated onboarding communications
• Role, persona, or industry-specific onboarding resources
• Serve as a central point of contact for onboarding alignment across Education, Customer Success, Technical Support, Professional Services, and Product.
• Contribute to the definition and continuous improvement of onboarding processes, documentation, and internal enablement materials.
• Use onboarding engagement data and feedback to inform improvements to onboarding content, delivery, and coordination.

What You Bring

• 4+ years of experience in a customer-facing role such as customer onboarding, technical training, customer education, technical support, or customer success.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• Solid technical aptitude, with experience explaining technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Experience creating and delivering technical trainings, workshops, or enablement sessions.
• Hands-on experience with coding or scripting, particularly in Python, sufficient to understand customer workflows, troubleshoot issues, and support technical onboarding.
• Familiarity with adult learning principles and best practices for customer education.
• Ability to own and coordinate cross-functional programs, balancing organization, collaboration, and stakeholder alignment in a customer-facing environment.

What Makes You Stand Out

• Familiarity with GIS, remote sensing, or geospatial data platforms.
• Experience working in a SaaS, data, or developer-focused product environment.
• Experience working with Learning Management Systems (LMS) and education platforms.
• Exposure to onboarding automation, customer engagement platforms, or lifecycle communications.
• Experience supporting both live and scaled (self-serve or automated) onboarding models.
• Fluency in multiple languages.

Application Details

Application deadlines and processes are subject to change. Plan and apply accordingly.

Benefits

• 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

Belonging and EEO

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 is committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religion, 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.

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