Senior Product Manager - D&I Tasking & Satellite Strategy

Planet; United States; Hybrid; USD 143,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Medical, Dental, Vision

HSA with company contribution

Paid Time Off + holidays

Parental leave (16 weeks)

Wellness & EAP

Home office reimbursement

Phone & Internet reimbursement

Tuition reimbursement

Equity

Commuter benefits

Volunteering PTO

Job summary

Planet seeks a Senior Product Manager for Defense & Intelligence Tasking Solutions to bridge core Tasking platform with defense mission offerings. You will own Tip-and-Cue and the Tasking Strategy Engine, translating mission rules into satellite collection while aligning with Constellation Services and Real-Time Insights.

You will partner with Forward Deployed Engineering to turn field integration patterns into reusable platform capabilities, enabling faster delivery in high-consequence

Qualifications

• 6 to 8 years of technical product management experience bridging core platform teams and technical field teams.
• Solid understanding of tasking, scheduling, or workflow-orchestration systems, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Proven ability to separate generalizable platform capabilities from one-off customizations.
• Experience translating operational rules, mission logic, or domain-specific business processes into system workflows and product requirements.
• Background in geospatial intelligence, satellite tasking, or a closely related defense technology field.
• Track record of prioritizing backlogs across competing technical and operational demands.
• Experience presenting technical trade-offs and mission impact in both engineering design reviews and executive/customer briefings.
• Experience independently owning a roadmap or workstream spanning multiple concurrent priorities, with minimal day-to-day oversight.

Responsibilities

• Define how customer config-driven logic translates to sensor/constellation selection, collection cadence, multi-constellation/all-weather logic that converts mission intent into optimized satellite collection calls.
• Partner with Forward Deployed Engineers in the field to identify recurring customer integration patterns, converting them into generalizable, reusable platform features rather than one-off custom builds.
• Convert defense business rules and domain logic into dynamic tasking strategy designs, directly driving down pixel-to-insight latency.
• Consolidate inputs across field engineering, GTM/sales, and adjacent PM counterparts into a prioritized D&I Tasking Solutions roadmap.
• Collaborate closely with the Commercial Tasking, CxS and RTI product managers to ensure D&I tasking, capacity, and low-latency delivery requirements are represented in the shared platform roadmap.
• Work with compliance and security teams to ensure all products and services adhere to export control laws, national security constraints, and data privacy standards.
• Collaborate with adjacent D&I Solutions PMs to deliver a seamless end-to-end user experience.

Skills

Tasking systems

Geospatial intelligence

Defense tech

Roadmap ownership

Stakeholder management

Technical product mgmt

Tools

APIs

Job description

Planet seeks a Senior Product Manager for Defense & Intelligence Tasking Solutions to bridge core Tasking platform with defense mission offerings. You will own Tip-and-Cue and the Tasking Strategy Engine, translating mission rules into satellite collection while aligning with Constellation Services and Real-Time Insights.

You will partner with Forward Deployed Engineering to turn field integration patterns into reusable platform capabilities, enabling faster delivery in high-consequence