Senior Analyst, International Trade Compliance

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

About the Role:

As a Senior Analyst, International Trade Compliance (ITC) for Planet, you will be a member of the ITC Team within Planet’s global Legal organization and will have the opportunity to work on issues that may have large compliance and/or financial implications for the company.  You will routinely interface with engineers, supply chain, IT, security, sales, and other local and international personnel, as well as external counsel and vendors to mitigate compliance risks and support secure and efficient global trade licensing and operations.  In this role, your primary focus area will be on compliance with export/import laws/regulations, while providing support as well for economic sanctions and anti-bribery/anti-corruption compliance.  

The successful candidate will have solid work experience in the satellite and/or aerospace/defense industry with past work experience in the areas of contracting, international trade and/or legal. The position will be responsible for integrating export/import regulations into business, preparing and managing all types of DDTC and BIS licenses/authorizations and ensuring legal compliance to maximize business outcomes for Planet.

This is a full-time, remote position based in the United States. If located near an office, you are expected to work from that office 3 days per week.

Impact You'll Own:

• Preparing export/import authorization requests required to support international sales and company operations, to include reviewing business documents to assist in scoping export-import authorizations to support business objectives
• Managing the full lifecycle of export/import authorizations, to include internal training/implementation, preparation and submission of post-approval regulatory filings, review of associated export activity, and associated recordkeeping
• Conducting export/import training and providing formal and informal communication/guidance to internal and external stakeholders regarding export/import compliance
• Serving as interface with U.S. government agencies in support of trade compliance initiatives
• Providing guidance and interpretation of US government regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR)
• Assisting in the development and implementation of policies and procedures, to include internal technology control plans
• Reviewing and approving international travel requests, foreign visit requests, and export/import transactions of hardware, data and services.
• Assisting in review of international trade compliance terms for proposals/contracts and providing recommendations
• Working with technical subject matter experts to document export classification order of review assessments and tracking new technology developments within the company
• Preparing/filing Commodity Jurisdiction Requests, Commodity Classification Requests, and Advisory Opinions, as needed
• Making formal presentations in meetings and/or training environments
• Negotiating export/import control matters with internal and external stakeholders and resolving in a win/win manner
• Supporting with sanctions and anti-bribery/anti-corruption compliance matters, when needed, which may include from time to time:
• Analyzing economic and financial sanctions for implications to business
• Supporting enhanced due diligence review of third party intermediaries
• Dispositioning automated flags for restricted party screening
• Supporting with conducting compliance audits/assessments/investigati