Commercial AI Innovation Lead

About the Role

As lead for Commercial AI Innovation, you will sit at the intersection of Planet's most valuable asset — the world's largest daily Earth observation archive — and the commercial use cases that prove its economic power. You will identify where Planet's imagery, analytics, and AI infrastructure can generate leading economic signals and physical economy intelligence for commercial customers, then rapidly prototype, validate, and scale those concepts into measurable revenue impact.

This role is equal parts strategist and builder. You will partner closely with Sales, Customer Success, Product, and Data Science to translate Planet's AI-led product strategy into prioritized roadmaps and customer-ready proof points — moving fast, building proof, and finding the signal before committing full engineering resources. At a moment when Planet is expanding its next-generation constellation fleet and accelerating its analytics and intelligence offerings, this role exists to make sure the commercial organization is equipped to win the next chapter of Earth observation.

This is a full-time, remote position based in the United States. If located near an office, you are expected to work from that office 3 days per week.

Impact You'll Own

• 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