Product Manager, Tanager
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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.
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About the Role:
As a Product Manager for Tanager at Planet, you will be responsible for overseeing product development and setting product strategy for our hyperspectral data products. Planet’s Tanager-1 satellite is operational, and its data products have achieved General Availability. You will now oversee the product's continued evolution and scaling to ensure the hyperspectral offering delivers valuable and actionable insights for end users in commercial, government, and non-profit domains. You will define the product roadmap in alignment with overall company strategy and engage customers to understand needs and set product requirements to meet them. You will work very cross-functional with Sales, Marketing, Science, Software Engineering, Legal, and other teams at Planet. At its core, this role requires strong product leadership including listening deeply to customers, mobilizing cross-functional teams, and making clear, accountable decisions to drive outcomes in ambiguous environments. The Tanager Mission is at the core of Planet's commitment to "Do Good" through the monitoring of global emissions and our impactful partnership with Carbon Mapper.
Join Planet and be a part of our mission to change the way people see the world.
Impact You'll Own:
- Oversee the evolution and scaling of our hyperspectral products, setting clear strategy and making principled tradeoffs across competing priorities, constraints, and uncertainty to drive revenue growth as the constellation scales.
- Drive commercial growth by growing the foothold in the methane market and strategically evolving the product portfolio into new markets to find product-market fit.
- Collaborate with Platform Product teams to ensure customers can task, order, and access our products
- Build and maintain the Product Roadmap for our Hyperspectral Offering, synthesizing inputs from customers and internal stakeholders (Sales, Engineering, Customer Success, etc.) while making clear, accountable prioritization decisions aligned with company strategy.
- Work closely with Sales and Product Marketing to clearly articulate value of the hyperspectral derived products for targeted markets
- Lead cross-functional alignment across Engineering, Science, and Commercial teams, ensuring clarity of direction while navigating ambiguity and evolving constraints.
- Collaborate with Solutions teams to explore how Tanager data can enhance Planet's internal products
What You Bring:
- 5+ years as a power-user of satellite imagery, remote sensing and GIS, preferably with experience using hyperspectral imagery
- Demonstrated ability to operate in ambiguity, assess risk, and make high-quality decisions with incomplete data, with strong product judgment and a proven track record of making difficult tradeoffs without relying on consensus.
- Experience in an industry where advanced sensing could be applied such as defense, atmospheric sciences, agriculture, energy, environmental conservation or geology
- A solid understanding of the benefits and challenges of processing and analyzing EO data
- Proven capacity for delighting customers
- Experience working in a fast paced, high growth environment
- Outstanding executive communication (speaking and writing), interpersonal, and organizational skills
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and creative thinking skills
- Ability to collaborate well across a wide variety of stakeholders
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Application Deadline:
July 27, 2026 by 11:59p / 23:59 CET (Central European Time)
EAR/ITAR Requirements:
This position requires access to export-controlled information, and as such, employment (or hiring of a contractor) is contingent upon the candidate’s ability to access all applicable export-controlled information without additional export licensing being required by the Bureau of Industry and Security and/or the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.
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
- 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.
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Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Why we care so much about Belonging.
We’re dedicated to helping the whole Planet, and to do that we must strive to represent all of it within each of our offices and on all of our teams. That’s why Planet is guided by an ultimate north star of Belonging—dreaming big as we approach our ongoing work. If this job intrigues you, but you’re thinking you might not have all the qualifications, please... do apply! At Planet, we are looking for well-rounded people from around the world who can contribute to more ways than just what is listed in this job description. We don’t just fill positions, we aspire to fulfill people’s careers, most excited about folks who are motivated by our underlying humanitarian efforts. We are a few orbits around the sun before we get to where we want to be, so we hope you’re excited to come along for the ride.
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