Product Specialist Natural Lands

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About the Role:

We are looking for a passionate and motivated Product Specialist to join Planets Natural Lands team. This team is at the forefront of Planets mission to empower organizations with data to combat some of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time including mitigating climate change slowing deforestation and reducing wildfire risk. This role offers a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of cuttingedge technology environmental science and impactful industry applications helping Planet deliver on its vision of using space to improve life on Earth.

As the Product Specialist you will work closely with two of Planets product and engineering pods focused on delivering cuttingedge forest carbon and wildfire data layers. These innovative data products leverage Planets satellite imagery to drive sustainable forestry practices advance carbon offset programs and improve wildfire preparedness and response.

You will be the key link between Planets technical teams and its customers. This role comprises two main functions: (A) contributing to the ongoing development of forest carbon and wildfire data products as the conduit between product and customers and (B) supporting Planets sales partnerships and customer success teams as the product expert in clientfacing activities. Your collaboration with Planet teams and customers will be instrumental in helping craft compelling datadriven narratives that demonstrate the value of Planets products to the Natural Lands sectors.

Beyond customer engagement your work will involve handson data analysis and storytelling. You will develop figures reports and workflows that highlight the transformative potential of Planets products. Your contributions will not only support customer conversations and marketing efforts but may also feed directly into the production workflows that shape how Planets data products are used globally.

This is a fulltime hybrid role which will require you to work in our San Francisco HQ 2 days per week.

Impact Youll Own:

• Act as the subject matter expert on Planets forest carbon and wildfire data products staying up to date on roadmaps technical developments and timelines by attending weekly pod meetings.
• Collaborate with the sales team and join customer calls to provide technical expertise and communicate product value propositions effectively.
• Create customer feedback loop to provide product development insights
• Work closely with data to perform analyses create visualizations and develop reports for customer meetings marketing materials or production workflows. For example developing and running an analysis of historical forest degradation that compares the performance of Planets data products to public data over the Amazon basin.
• Contribute to the development of operational workflows and content showcasing the utility of Planets products for the Natural Lands vertical.

What You Bring:

• A background in forest science wildfire science or related fields.
• 4 years of relevant work experience
• Experience analyzing geospatial data particularly for forest or wildfire applications.
• Proficiency in Python and data science tools for analysis and visualization particularly geospatial python packages and workflows (e.g. GDAL rasterio shapely etc)
• Familiarity with software development workflows (though extensive software engineering expertise is not required).
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to convey technical information to diverse audiences.
• Familiarity with and appreciation for creating and delivering value to customers and/or partners in a commercial setting.
• Solid understanding of machine learning or image analysis
• Experience with version control and Git

What Makes You Stand Out:

• Experience engaging directly with customers in a technical capacity preferably in support of sales and/or partnership functions in a commercial context.
• Knowledge of carbon markets wildfire risk assessment or forest management practices.
• Experience developing or working with operational workflows based on geospatial data products.

Application Deadline:

June 11 2025 by 11:59pm PDT

Benefits While Working at Planet:

These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location based upon applicable law or company policy.

• Comprehensive Medical Dental and Vision plans
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
• Generous Paid Time Off in addition to holidays and companywide days off
• 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Remotefriendly work environment
• 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

Compensation:

The US base salary range for this fulltime position at the commencement of employment is listed below. Additionally this role might be eligible for discretionary shortterm and longterm incentives (bonus and equity). The final salary range is determined by job related experience skills and location. The range displays our typical hiring range for new hire salaries in US locations only. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Why we care so much about Belonging.
Were dedicated to helping the whole Planet and to do that we must strive to represent all of it within each of our offices and on all of our teams. Thats why Planet is guided by an ultimate north star of Belongingdreaming big as we approach our ongoing work. If this job intrigues you but youre thinking you might not have all the qualifications please... do apply! At Planet we are looking for wellrounded people from around the world who can contribute to more ways than just what is listed in this job description. We dont just fill positions we aspire to fulfill peoples careers most excited about folks who are motivated by our underlying humanitarian efforts. We are a few orbits around the sun before we get to where we want to be so we hope youre excited to come along for the ride.

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