Senior PM, Mission Solutions — Defense & Intelligence

Front Door Defense; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 163,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plan

HSA contribution

Paid time off

Parental leave 16 weeks

Wellness program

Home office reimbursement

Phone/internet reimbursement

Tuition reimbursement

Equity

Commuter benefits

Volunteer PTO

Job summary

Planet is seeking a Senior Product Manager, Mission Solutions to define and deliver the D&I vertical across platforms, partnering with Forward Deployed Engineers to translate defense workflows into scalable platform capabilities. The role focuses on technical delivery with growth into end-to-end vertical solutioning, including market packaging and long-term strategy.

You will work in a hybrid role from San Francisco or Arlington, collaborating across defense and intelligence domains to shape

Qualifications

• 6+ years of technical product management experience bridging core platform teams and technical field teams (FDE, Solutions Engineering).
• Proven understanding of geospatial data platforms, cloud architectures, APIs, extension layers, and analytics/ML pipelines.
• Proven ability to separate generalizable platform capabilities from one-off customizations.
• Background in geospatial intelligence, satellite tasking/monitoring, remote sensing, and defense technology.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Forward Deployed Engineers on delivery: Help solve the right product challenges they hit in the field, and convert recurring customer-specific build patterns into durable, reusable GMS/MDA and core platform capability.
• Influence and help prioritize which mission requirements are worth building into the shared GMS/MDA platform versus solving for a single customer
• Keep D&I mission requirements visible against company-wide objectives, including how fast a tasked image becomes an insight and how fast a new site comes online.
• Scale Demand Intake: Consolidate inputs across field engineering, sales, and PM counterparts into a prioritized D&I product roadmap.
• Drive Vertical Product Strategy: Evolve GMS and MDA capabilities into packaged D&I offerings aligned with defense procurement and operational models.

Skills

Geospatial data

Cloud architectures

APIs

Analytics/ML pipelines

Job description

Planet is seeking a Senior Product Manager, Mission Solutions to define and deliver the D&I vertical across platforms, partnering with Forward Deployed Engineers to translate defense workflows into scalable platform capabilities. The role focuses on technical delivery with growth into end-to-end vertical solutioning, including market packaging and long-term strategy.

You will work in a hybrid role from San Francisco or Arlington, collaborating across defense and intelligence domains to shape