Solutions Architect I

Solutions Architects on Planet’s Professional Services team are experienced technologists who work with customers to deeply understand their problems and make them successful users of Planet’s product offerings. In this role, you will apply your remote sensing, geospatial, and scientific background, combined with deep knowledge of Planet’s technologies, to design and architect solutions that provide customers with the outcomes they need for long term value. Solutions Architects are good listeners and respected thought leaders that help guide large projects and teams to success outcomes and your efforts will be directly visible in customers’ ability to make global change actionable.

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

Impact You’ll Own:

• Architect, design, pilot and operationalize solutions, transforming customer requirements into robust solution architectures that align with your customer’s business and technology strategies.
• Deliver workshops, tailored demo-apps, and workflows, designing user experiences for solution prototyping and continuously improving the applications that customers experience.
• Support pre-sales and customer expansions on solution ideation and design by leveraging your remote sensing, geospatial, and geoinformatics knowledge, alongside technology experience in AI, machine learning, image processing, and geo-programming.
• Act as the technical lead in solution development teams within Agile environments, supported by project managers and software engineers who own the building of the solutions.
• Liaise with multiple cross-functional stakeholders, including product owners, technical project managers, and satellite and image quality engineers, for architecting the best solutions possible to Planet’s customers.
• Collaborate with sales, pre-sales, marketing, business development, legal, proposals, and other teams to support bidding and technical proposal writing for large civil government and commercial projects.
• Help own the customer success lifecycle from scoping and discovery, to project execution and delivery leading to customer satisfaction, value delivery and expansions.
• Champion Planet’s products and offerings in-person and via online assistance by providing training, presenting at conferences, writing technical tutorials, and publishing articles and videos.
• Interact and engage with users in Planet’s Education and Research program to source novel customer applications and unique insights.

• 4+ years of relevant work experience in a technical geospatial or remote sensing role.
• Bachelor’s degree in GIS, Computer Science, Remote Sensing, Geography, or a related field.
• A background in remote sensing, geoscience, or geoinformatics.
• Extensive programming ability with Python for geospatial applications, applying code best practices to process imagery, manipulate vector data, and build data pipelines.
• Experience with solution design, requirement gathering, product user story ideation, solutions design documentation, architecting and prototyping.
• Proficiency with QGIS, ArcGIS, GDAL, ENVI or other common geospatial software.
• Industry-specific knowledge and experience in domains such as forestry, natural disasters, sustainability, and agriculture.
• Familiarity with cloud-computing environments such as GCP, AWS, and Azure.
• Experience working in Agile, cross-functional teams, with knowledge and familiarity of efficient, metrics-based planning and delivery.
• Experience using AI for productivity, coding, and demo app creation (e.g., using Streamlit).
• Ability to run workshops or training sessions with users, including working directly with end-user troubleshooting.

What Makes You Stand Out:

• Advanced experience with machine learning algorithms applied to geospatial data, and the use of Claude and AI for geospatial application.
• Working knowledge of modern cloud tools and pipelines, including Google Functions, CI/CD integrations, Vertex AI and Amazon Bedrock.
• Knowledge of the Challenger methodology for liaising with clients - supporting them and helping them see what they are not seeing, especially as you guide them on the solutions journey.
• Working knowledge of JavaScript and its mapping libraries (OpenLayers, Leaflet, ArcGIS API for JavaScript) as well as web development frameworks like React.

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, The expected starting gross salary range for this role is listed below. Individual placement within this range is determined objectively based on gender-neutral criteria such as your skills, qualifications, and professional experience. This position may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, commission, and/or equity. In addition to the salary range listed below, this role is also eligible to receive commission. Germany Salary Range €64.890-€81.090 EUR

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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.