Senior Deployment Strategist
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.
Impact You’ll Own:
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
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
What Makes You Stand Out:
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
Application Deadline:
October 6, 2026 at 11:59p PT
Benefits While Working at Planet:
These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy.
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
This role is eligible for commission.
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