About the Role:

The Head of Imagery Products will be responsible for leading the product organization for Planet’s Imagery and Derived Product portfolio, which includes Planetscope, High Resolution Tasking, hyperspectral imagery and derived products such as Analytic Ready Planetscope and Fusion. This leader will lead a team of product professionals and will further develop the organization’s people and processes. 

The Head of Imagery Products will be responsible for adding energy, passion, commitment and high-quality management to this rapidly evolving operation. This candidate is collaborative in their leadership style, unblocking the team, giving Product Managers autonomy and offering career growth prospects for employees.  This will require strong leadership capabilities as well as a roll-up-your sleeves, hands-on mentality. Coupled with a strong technical acumen, they must be able to simultaneously manage multiple products with various dependencies across a global environment and engage with the Marketing and Commercial teams to drive higher growth and broader market adoption.

This role can either be located in our San Francisco, CA or Washington, DC office, or be remote in North America. 

Impact You’ll Own:

• Own overall product execution to align company strategies toward product initiatives and roadmaps.
• Bring product scaling processes to the organization and deliver a roadmap on time with quality.
• Ensure the organization has the product capacity to fulfill the long term vision while covering near-term strategy across the suite of Planet’s products. 
• Communicate Planet’s products internally to drive engineering, marketing, sales and product alignment.
• Understand and react to the competitor and partner landscape.
• Help develop pricing and business models, as appropriate.
• Build and nurture close working relationships with key customers to help guide and influence the overall direction of Planet’s imagery products.
• Nurture collaborative relationships with the existing leadership team, and work cross-functionally across sales, marketing and engineering to ensure that a Product mentality is integrated into the culture and fabric of the company.

What You Bring:

• 10+ years of Product Management leadership experience overseeing successful products that have scaled and generated significant revenue; can point to clear, commercial product success in the market.
• Experience in leading an existing Product Management team where growth and development will be important.
• Experience with geospatial data, GIS, remote sensing and/or earth observation products. 
• Experience in large CapEx/OpEx business and need to balance the need to go fast within a constrained budget.
• Experience managing a sophisticated product suite across multiple segments (verticals + international).
• Proven analytical experience with measuring attributes across the sales pipeline, internal costs, and user behavior to make data-driven decisions for future investments.
• Experience successfully monetizing massive data sets is highly preferred.
• Ability to lead and influence both external customers and partners, as well as with senior management at Planet.

What Makes You Stand Out: 

• Ability to listen deeply, and incorporate multiple perspectives into a coherent organizational voice, and ensure that cross-organizational priorities are aligned and incorporated.
• Experience building positive relationships with peers and others within a company.  
• Ability to gather and use customer/market input in improving existing products and launching new solutions. 
• Experience using data collected from sales, engineering, and finance to advocate for company investments to make decisions.
• Ability to think critically and strategically, combining analytical thinking and creativity when attacking problems.
• Ability to continually learn and foster growth and collaboration within and across teams.

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Application Deadline:

May 18, 2025 by 11:45pm PST

Benefits While Working at Planet:

These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy.

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
• Generous Paid Time Off in addition to holidays and company-wide days off 
• 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Remote-friendly work environment 
• Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Home Office Reimbursement
• Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
• Equity
• Commuter Benefits (if local to an office)
• Volunteering Paid Time Off

Compensation:

The US base salary range for this full-time position at the commencement of employment is listed below.  Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives (bonus and equity). The final salary range is determined by job related experience, skills and location.  The range displays our typical hiring range for new hire salaries in US locations only.  Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.