Senior Deployment Strategist

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, Austria, Slovenia, and The Netherlands.

About the Role

Planet’s Professional Services team helps our Defense and Intelligence (D&I) customers adopt the Planet Platform and rapidly realize return on investment in Planet data and analytics. The Professional Services Global D&I team is looking for a Solutions Architect responsible for the implementation, integration, and analysis of new software and data products that extend the Planet Platform and deliver new capabilities to our strategic D&I customers.

In this role, you will be embedded with our customer to train users on Planet products, translate requirements, design workflows, and communicate with Planet’s product team on mission critical capabilities. Your work will be highly visible, directly impacting customers' ability to quickly access Planet's unprecedented datasets, as well as streamline the internal processes for adding new customers to our platform.

This is a full-time, hybrid role which will require you to work from our Seoul, Korea office 3 days per week.

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 our D&I customers and support mission requirements

Design workflows, defining data models, configuring integrations, and helping define tooling that aligns to the customer’s mission.

Train users, iterate with them in real time, and ensure that Planet solutions become mission-critical to daily operations.

Translate operational requirements into actionable product feedback for Planet’s engineering teams.

Communicate technical capabilities back to customers in clear, mission-focused language.

Rapidly prototype, test, and adjust workflows to match real operational needs.

Map high-level strategy with decision makers by sitting next to analysts to debug workflows.

Collaborate with customer teams to understand their workflows, pain points, and mission priorities.

What You Bring

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