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About the Role

The Senior Constellation Services (CxS) Manager, Europe is responsible for steering initiatives that will deliver on Planet’s growing CxS business line throughout the EMEA market. This role will be responsible for programs valued over €100M to build, launch and operate a constellation of Pelican satellites for Planet and its strategic EMEA customers. This is a key strategic role for the Space Business Group and Planet as a whole. The Senior Manager will achieve success by coordinating teams and resources across the company to ensure that the capabilities delivered by the program meet customer requirements and provide excellent imagery products. The Senior Manager must ensure that the Pelicans delivered on orbit are healthy, productive satellites and will hire or enlist teammates that will establish plans, programs, and teams that maximize the chance for mission success. They will coordinate with Mission Directors and peers in Space Systems, Software Engineering, and other corporate functions to deconflict resources and balance timelines so Planet can maximize the overall success of its mission portfolio. The Senior Manager is successful through establishing a core program team to drive the top-level mission elements while enabling and empowering the executing teams. Thus, they must demonstrate a strong commitment to Planet’s cultural values, agile principles, and servant leadership to succeed in this role. They enhance their effectiveness through generating personal credibility and building relationships across the company.

Responsibilities

Acts as the Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) on overall program success, ensuring that the capabilities delivered by the program meet the needs of the customer and serve the customer and Planet’s business model.
Serves as the primary regional "bridge," ensuring that local EMEA European mission nuances and market developments are seamlessly integrated into Planet’s global strategic vision.
Accountable for ensuring that the program maintains close alignment to Pelicans commercial, technical and product roadmap, that it complements Planet’s other High Resolution and Constellation Service product offerings
Represents the program internally to senior leadership and the broader company.
Works with Space Business Group leadership to make sure that the program is best positioned and supported to achieve its objectives.
Lead, manage, and hire the core program team. This core team has scope that reaches across divisional and organizational boundaries and has the mandate to lead the program through integrated execution.
Develops and maintains high level cross-company program priorities and processes while addressing blockers to progress.
Holds overall program risk and balances risk across the various program elements, including engineering, launch, and operations.
Acts as the accountable individual for satisfying program-level requirements. If requirements need to change the Mission Director is Planet’s facilitator and negotiator of such changes between the customer and Planet.
Supports Systems Engineering in coordinating internal requirement flow among Product/Sales and the engineering divisions.
Works with the EPM (Engineering Program Manager) and TPM (Technical Product Manager) teams to maintain a clear view of program schedule and program-level risks to guide program strategy and execution.
Collaborates with finance and accounting teams to develop and apply standard practices for program financial management.
Acts as Planet’s ambassador for the program to potential partners, customers and the press as needed.

Requirements

10+ years experience in space systems development, management and/or operations
Deep expertise in LEO satellite operations, satellite design, and what is required to deliver mission success.
Generally knowledgeable about tasking business models and remote sensing technology.
The ability to operate effectively and decisively in an information rich environment with minimal guidance and extended autonomy.
The ability to make decisions that align with Planet’s technical and strategic roadmap as well as Planet’s core values.
Willingness to hold ambiguity and risk for the organization, and to make decisions when needed to bring clarity to executing teams.
Excellent interpersonal skills where team alignment can consistently be delivered and maintained.
The ability to travel within Europe as needed and to California 2-3 times per year.
Ability to maintain high availability during the start of the California workday (Pacific Time) for scheduled meetings and sporadic real-time collaboration.

Skills

space systems development
space systems management
space systems operations
LEO satellite operations
satellite design
mission success
tasking business models
remote sensing technology
program risk management

Location

Berlin
Europe
California

Work Type

Full-time
Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior

Benefits

Paid time off including vacation, holidays and company-wide days off
Employee Wellness Program
Home Office Reimbursement
Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
Equity
Volunteering Paid Time Off

About the Company

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, Austria, Slovenia, and The Netherlands.

Equal Opportunity

Planet is committed to building a community where everyone belongs and we invite people from all backgrounds to apply. Planet is an equal opportunity employer, and committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Know Your Rights.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.