Senior Deployment Strategist

The role

You will implement, integrate, and analyze new software and data products for Defense and Intelligence customers. You will be embedded with customers to train users, design workflows, and translate requirements into product feedback.

What you will do

• Understand clients' needs and deliver tailored solutions
• Break down ambiguous, high-stakes problems into clearly defined, solvable components
• Leverage analytical skills to deliver products to D&I customers and support mission requirements
• Design workflows, defining data models, configuring integrations, and helping define tooling
• Train users and iterate with them in real time
• Translate operational requirements into actionable product feedback
• Communicate technical capabilities back to customers in clear, mission-focused language
• Rapidly prototype, test, and adjust workflows
• Map high-level strategy with decision makers by sitting next to analysts to debug workflows
• Collaborate with customer teams to understand workflows, pain points, and mission priorities

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in supporting D&I customers, with specialized technical experience in the general areas of systems integration
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software, Systems Engineering, or similar
• Fluent in Golang, Python, Postgresql, & React or related technologies
• Experience with cloud deployments; GCP, AWS, Azure
• Solid problem-solving and systems thinking skills
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management
• Ability to quickly learn new technical domains and tools
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous, dynamic environments
• Fluency in translating between technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience with solving complex problems through analytical skills
• Experience scaling and maintaining production systems

Nice to have

• Experience working with defense and intelligence organizations in the Asia Pacific Region
• Systems integrations experience working with multi domain/multi-level security architectures, particularly the Defence and Intelligence
• Working knowledge of JavaScript and its mapping libraries (OpenLayers, Leaflet, ArcGIS API for JavaScript), Google Earth Engine and its SDK
• Experience with RDBMS (PostgreSQL, SQL) and distributed databases (NoSQL)
• Experience in geopolitics and data science
• Ability to pick up new technologies quickly
• Experience with building analytical products from complex datasets
• Experience with geospatial technologies and data
• GEOINT experience, imagery exploitation and analysis
• Fluency in multiple languages

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. The company is both a space company and a data company.