Technical Program Manager (Trade Compliance)
Planet
Denver, United States Posted September 20, 2026
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Salary Range
$127,000 - $158,700
Job Description
Join our team as a Technical Program Manager (TPM) for Trade Compliance. In this role, you will drive compliance to enable rapid product and software delivery. You will navigate complex regulatory requirements and ensure trade compliance is built into our product and software development architecture. You will collaborate with product managers and engineers, apply a risk-based approach to compliance, and establish rigorous documentation tracking. Additionally, you will design, implement, and audit technical processes to govern software development work.
- Drive compliance to enable product and software delivery in a rapid development environment by turning complex regulatory requirements into pragmatic, scalable product features.
- Ensure trade compliance requirements are built into product and software development architecture and deployment workflows, supporting product team innovation.
- Collaborate with product managers and engineers to understand product roadmaps and product lifecycle, and drive trade compliance requirements using a pragmatic, risk-based approach.
- Equally comfortable explaining your analyses and recommendations to business leaders as you are discussing technical trade-offs with engineers
- Ability to balance the tactical day-to-day with forward-looking improvements to scale operational efficiencies
- Experience working inside dynamic software engineering environments: CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and Agile methodologies
- Analytical, problem-solving, and creative thinking skills paired with the ability to communicate findings and recommendations
- Experience with the product life cycle: concept through development, launch preparation, go-to-market, deprecations, and end-of-life
- Demonstrated experience collaborating at the architectural level with engineering teams on cloud infrastructure, APIs, containerization, and data pipeline design
- 4 to 6 years of relevant software development or program management experience in the areas of SaaS, complex data lifecycles, discovery/search engines, or cloud-based content delivery
- Practical knowledge of ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations) and EAR (Export Administration Regulations), specifically as they apply to software, dual-use items, encryption, and satellite/geospatial data analytics
- Experience with remote sensing, earth observation data, or geospatial systems
- Ability to obtain clearance
- Experience working with remote, worldwide teams
- Demonstrated success in optimizing processes and tools to scale development cycles
- Proactive approach to learning and applying emerging regulatory standards to product development
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