Senior Technical Program Manager-Platform

Planetlabs; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Planet Labs is seeking a seasoned Program Manager to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives for a cloud platform enabling customers to discover, process, and stream data. You’ll translate product and engineering priorities into aligned plans, boosting delivery predictability and keeping teams coordinated from planning through launch and ongoing operations.

You will drive roadmap delivery across product, engineering, design, data science, and partner teams, build capacity-aware schedules, and

Qualifications

• At least 6 years of software development or program management experience in SaaS, data lifecycles, discovery or cloud content delivery.
• A bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• Experience leading cross-functional programs and managing product work from concept through launch, maintenance, and end of life.
• Experience improving delivery across matrixed engineering teams and coordinating high-stakes work across global time zones.
• A track record of migrations or service consolidations, such as bringing fragmented legacy tools into unified platform endpoints.
• Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to balance day-to-day execution and operational improvements; interest in using AI to improve workflows.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate roadmap delivery across product, engineering, design, data science, and other partner teams.
• Build capacity-aware plans with clear milestones, schedules, and completion criteria; reconcile commitments across teams.
• Track dependencies, risks, scope, and changing requirements, helping stakeholders address issues early.
• Facilitate decisions and escalations using analysis and constructive discussion, and keep technical and business partners informed.
• Coordinate external software developers and improve processes that support reliable execution.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Job description

Role overview

Lead complex, cross-functional programs for a cloud platform that helps customers discover, process, and stream data. You’ll turn product and engineering priorities into coordinated plans, improve delivery predictability, and keep teams aligned from planning through launch and ongoing operations. The role is remote within the Eastern Time zone.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate roadmap delivery across product, engineering, design, data science, and other partner teams.
• Build capacity-aware plans with clear milestones, schedules, and completion criteria; reconcile commitments across teams.
• Track dependencies, risks, scope, and changing requirements, helping stakeholders address issues early.
• Facilitate decisions and escalations using analysis and constructive discussion, and keep technical and business partners informed.
• Coordinate external software developers and improve processes that support reliable execution.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of software development or program management experience in SaaS, data lifecycles, discovery or search, or cloud content delivery.
• A bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• Experience leading cross-functional programs and managing product work from concept through launch, maintenance, and end of life.
• Experience improving delivery across matrixed engineering teams and coordinating high-stakes work across global time zones.
• A track record of migrations or service consolidations, such as bringing fragmented legacy tools into unified platform endpoints.
• Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to balance day-to-day execution and operational improvements; interest in using AI to improve workflows.

Nice to have

• Experience with remote software teams and asynchronous ways of working.