Hiring: Senior Product Manager, Mission Solutions Company: Planet Location: Arlington, VA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-17 12:49:55 Employment Type: Full-time / Remote Target Skills & Keywords : Product Management, Product Strategy, Security Clearance About the job Experience: •6+ years of technical product management experience bridging core platform teams and technical field teams (FDE, Solutions Engineering). Required Skills: •This is a full-time, hybrid role which will require you to work from our San Francisco, CA or Arlington, VA office 3 days per week. •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. Qualifications: •Understanding of geospatial data platforms, cloud architectures, APIs, extension layers, and analytics/ML pipelines. •Demonstrated capacity to separate generalizable platform capabilities from one-off customizations. •Background in geospatial intelligence, satellite tasking/monitoring, remote sensing, and defense technology. •Track record of prioritizing backlogs across competing technical and operational demands. •Demonstrated capacity to articulate technical trade-offs and mission impact to both engineers and executives. •Demonstrated capacity to work independently with minimal oversight while managing multiple concurrent priorities. •What Makes You Stand Out •Active or prior U.S. Security Clearance (Secret or TS/SCI). •Operational experience within or supporting the U.S. Defense & Intelligence Community •11:45pm PT on the date stated below. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. This posting may be removed earlier than projected if a suitable pool of applications has been received. For this reason, we recommend applying as soon as you are able to. Compensation: •$142,800 - $178,500 / year •Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives (bonus and equity) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!