Director, Partner Engineer

Welcome to Planet. We believe in using space to help life on Earth.

Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history. This constellation delivers an unprecedented dataset of empirical information via a revolutionary cloud-based platform to authoritative figures in commercial, environmental, and humanitarian sectors. We are both a space company and data company all rolled into one.

Customers and users across the globe use Planet's data to develop new technologies, drive revenue, power research, and solve our world’s toughest obstacles.

As we control every component of hardware design, manufacturing, data processing, and software engineering, our office is a truly inspiring mix of experts from a variety of domains.

We have a people-centric approach toward culture and community and we strive to iterate in a way that puts our team members first and prepares our company for growth. Join Planet and be a part of our mission to change the way people see the world.

Planet is a global company with employees working remotely world wide and joining us from offices in San Francisco, Washington DC, Germany, and The Netherlands.

About the Role:  

As a member of the team, the Director, Partner Engineering will build highly consultative trusted relationships with our strategic partners to provide business and technical thought leadership, and become a trusted advisor in solving mission-critical business and technical challenges with Planet data. This role combines technical and business skills to collaborate with our partners to ideate, scope, and bring Planet-powered features and products into the partners’ products, platforms, and apps. This will serve to grow the value we are able to provide to their customers and the world. In addition, you will be an internal advocate for our partners' needs, representing their input and feedback to drive feature innovation at the platform and product level. The ideal candidate will be able to understand and communicate deep technical topics, while working with stakeholders in different roles and levels of seniority on complex, highly visible initiatives.

Impact You’ll Own:

• Drive the technical success of our most strategic partners, guiding them to valuable, high-quality implementations of the Planet platform.
• Be at the forefront of technical discussions & solution deep-dives with partners on the value Planet can provide to their clients
• Provide technical consultation to partners, and work closely with them to troubleshoot and overcome technical hurdles.
• Engage with technical leads at key partners to share technology roadmaps, demonstrate the latest innovations
• Create and execute a strategy for improving our ability to help partners succeed with our products more easily and at greater scale in the future.
• Be a subject matter expert on the technical aspects of the platform, and how our partners use it
• Improve quality and value of Planet products by providing feedback and input to Planet’s product and engineering teams, influencing product roadmaps.
• Collaborate on technical content (sample code, demos, etc.) to show partners how to implement specific use cases or best practices
• Provide Partner-focused guidance on Planet’s product through feedback

What You Bring:

• 10+ years experience working in a technical software, including data products and API platforms
• Familiarity with cloud-based architectures and/or machine learning.
• Demonstrated ability to lead customer engagements.
• Ability to run workshops or training sessions with users.

What Makes You Stand Out:

• Experience processing imagery, manipulating vector data, creating geospatial web services, building APIs and/or building data processing pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with geospatial & software development in defense & intelligence, civil government or agriculture
• Experience programming javascript, especially interactive mapping applications
• Expertise in Sentinel Hub and/or Planet data
• Familiarity with statistical modeling and remote sensing spectral analyses
• Experience programming with Python
• Expertise with QGIS, Esri software, GDAL or other common geospatial software.

Benefits While Working at Planet:

• Comprehensive Health Plan
• Wellness program and onsite massages in specific offices
• Flexible Time Off
• Recognition Programs
• Commuter Benefits
• Learning and Tuition Reimbursement
• Parental Leave
• Offsites and Happy Hours

Compensation:

The US base salary range for this full-time position