Commercial AI Innovation Lead

Planet

Commercial AI Innovation Lead at Planet driving economic insights from the world's largest Earth observation archive. Collaborating with teams to develop AI-led product strategies and prototypes for commercial applications.

Posted 6/15/2026full-time🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $142,800 - $191,300 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Identify and prioritize high-value commercial use cases where Planet's imagery archive, Planet Analytic Feeds, Planetary Variables, and embeddings infrastructure generate differentiated economic signals — with emphasis on financial services, supply chain, energy, and infrastructure verticals
Spearheads a technology innovation pipeline from initial hypothesis through MVP validation, building demo-ready prototypes on Planet's platform well ahead of full product investment
Partner with Commercial Sales and Customer Success leadership to systematically convert field insight and customer conversations into structured, repeatable AI-enabled concepts
Provide support to translate validated prototypes into prioritized product roadmap inputs, coordinating across Product, Data Science, and Engineering to create a credible path to scale
Serve as a senior thought partner to Commercial leadership, framing where AI-driven differentiation is both technically achievable and commercially viable
Drive adoption of innovation outputs by embedding new tools and frameworks into Sales plays, Customer Success workflows, and partner programs
Partner with the Education and research liaison on finding new innovation opportunities in academia.
Represent Planet's commercial AI capabilities externally with customers (particularly our largest and most strategic commercial customers), at industry forums, and with the analyst community

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years spanning commercial strategy, customer-facing roles, and data or analytics product development — ideally at the intersection of geospatial, alternative data, or enterprise SaaS
Deep familiarity with commercial market data use cases: alternative data for financial services, supply chain analytics, physical economy signals, or adjacent domains where satellite-derived intelligence creates decision advantage
Ability to prototype and pitch AI-enabled concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences — you can build a compelling demo and a compelling business case, and you know which one the room needs
Working knowledge of the geospatial AI landscape: change detection, image classification, time-series analysis over Earth observation data, and the role of embeddings in enabling semantic query across global imagery archives
Track record of building momentum in ambiguous, low-resource environments
Excellent verbal and written communication skills; experience influencing VP and C-suite stakeholders with data-backed narratives.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
Generous Paid Time Off in addition to holidays and company-wide days off
16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Home Office Reimbursement
Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
Equity
Commuter Benefits (if local to an office)
Volunteering Paid Time Off

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI-enabled conceptsprototypingimage classificationchange detectiontime-series analysisembeddingsdata analyticsgeospatial analysissatellite-derived intelligencecommercial strategy

Soft Skills

communication skillsinfluencing stakeholderscollaborationproblem-solvinginnovationcustomer engagementstrategic thinkingpresentation skillsadaptabilityleadership