Jessica Peterson, Ph.D.

Human intelligence.

I’m a cognitive scientist and product leader. For over twenty years I’ve pursued one question: what is human intelligence? Most recently I led AI research at Salesforce; today I write, speak, and advise investors and coaching clients.

PhD Northwestern University BA Rice University Salesforce · Google · Meta

Work with me

Speaking

Human and artificial intelligence, language, building technology, personal and professional growth.

Consulting

Fractional product leadership, full-stack execution of market and user insights.

Teaching

AI product development, organizational psychology, linguistics.

Advising

Product strategy, critical hires, founder psychology.

Selected Work

SalesforceSenior Director, Product Management

Led AI Research and Trailhead product teams. Shipped a retrieval-augmented generation system reaching 95% answer accuracy on trusted content, with enterprise safety mechanisms and evaluation frameworks.

GoogleResearch Lead

Drove discovery and product-market fit for global Google Assistant launches across automotive, speakers, wearables, and mobile, and defined how AI interaction quality gets measured.

MetaPrincipal Researcher

Part of the team that launched Instagram Stories in 2016, during the growth of Instagram from 500 million to one billion global monthly users.

GoHealthHead of Product

Executive hire who built and led the company’s product, design, engineering, and research organization, including an early ML-based recommendation system for insurance plans.

EarlierSpeech Science & Conversation Design

A decade designing and tuning multilingual conversational voice systems before “conversational AI” had a name.

Contact

Email me or find me on LinkedIn.

Hourglass

The Practice

For the inner work you can’t delegate.

I’m the only executive coach in Silicon Valley with deep fluency in AI product development, psychology, and spirituality. I help clients quickly master patterns and time their decisions for a competitive edge no one else offers. My limited coaching practice is for those who believe the most unconventional perspective in the room is the most valuable.

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