Who We Are
Our mission is to invent the future of farming. We're transforming the oldest and most important industry in the world from “gut instinct” to data science. Our platform already exposes critical operational insights to over 1 in 3 U.S. row crop farms and our users absolutely love us.
Who You AreYou have a strong understanding of agriculture- from the economics and finance side of agriculture to the daily operations of growers. You have experienced the day to day tasks involved with growing a crop. You have made a grain marketing plan and executed contracts. You have compiled your farm information into what was needed for a loan. In addition to being an agricultural expert, you have participated in the creation and delivery of a software product, and want to grow as a Product Manager. You're an advocate for the user and you understand how to look at problems and challenges from their perspective. You're both creative and decisive, but you never act blindly on your assumptions. You research, you test, and you validate. When you iterate, each new release occurs more efficiently and with better results than the previous one. The same goes for cycling through the research and testing process; it takes you less time to identify and execute the right experiments. You have great instinct, which means you validate good ideas quickly and kill bad ones even faster.
About the RoleYou will serve as the agriculture subject matter expert for the product team. You will also collaborate with internal teams and customers to develop and support the execution of FarmLogs’ product roadmap.
Tasks You’ll Be Juggling- Identifying pain points/opportunities that impact our target customer and estimating the value of solving them
- Defining solutions for a customer’s problem/pain point that include scope of project, initial success criteria, and target market acceptance metrics
- Researching, gathering, and managing continuous feedback from both internal and external resources
- Prioritizing efforts based on business need and ROI
- Delivering clear requirements for implementation by the project team, translating business needs into concrete achievable milestones and deliverables.
- Work hand-in-hand with project team members to see stories/tasks through to completion
- Collaborating with internal teams and customers to collect ideas, feedback, bugs, business needs, etc. and prioritizing them into a product roadmap that makes sense to the market and customers
- Communicating the value of product efforts to the organization
- Measuring acceptance of products in the market
Your CredsRequired
- Deep subject matter expertise in agriculture, especially farming economics and operations
- Hands-on software product management experience
- Demonstrated success managing full product lifecycles (inception, creation, launch, iteration, decommission, etc.)
- Strong communication skills with the ability to converse effectively across diverse groups of people - from executives to customers to designers to developers
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to distill customer needs into clear and concise requirements/stories
- Ability to rapidly adapt to changes in the environment and priorities
Nice to have
- Grew up on a farm
- Degree in Agricultural Economics, Business Management, Finance or related field
- Experience working in a startup environment
