Job Description

At Bayer we’re visionaries, driven to solve the world’s toughest challenges and striving for a world where 'Health for all Hunger for none’ is no longer a dream, but a real possibility. We’re doing it with energy, curiosity and sheer dedication, always learning from unique perspectives of those around us, expanding our thinking, growing our capabilities and redefining ‘impossible’. There are so many reasons to join us. If you’re hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there’s only one choice.

Sr. Product Manager, Field Data Acquisition

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

As Bayer Crop Science's digital farming arm, we advance regenerative agriculture and technology breakthroughs using the latest agronomic science, data science, engineering, and real-world farming experience. With groundbreaking technologies like Climate FieldView and our ForGround regenerative agriculture platform, our team is a part of some of the most important advancements in ag.

In this role, you’ll be actively engaging in discovery work and overseeing the delivery of epic-level features and capabilities for Field Data Acquisition. You’ll define what needs to be built and ensure that the right features are developed. You’ll drive full discovery and evidence-guided framework including solution design and act as Product Owner for a subset of features within the value stream.

Travel Expectations: up to 10%, may include international

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with OEMs and data providers across agriculture, construction, irrigation, and field sensors

• Review 3rd party API documentation and identify key data attributes for potential integration into FieldView

• Identify key product features required to support hardware and field data acquisition

• Ensure successful new product development by thoroughly documenting functional requirements, user stories, and backlog grooming in Jira

• Own a subset of features within the value stream and build a product strategy aligned with the Field View mission and vision, the industry’s #1 digital agriculture platform

• Coordinate cross-functional collaboration and oversee execution of features/products to market that have high impact to the business/customer

• Prioritize the features in the product backlog based on business value and customer needs

• Work together with Business Owners to communicate the feature development and that the product is successfully brought to market

• Lead Performance Monitoring: Define and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to track the success of the product strategy, making data-driven decisions to continuously improve the product's performance. Document how the feature specific KPIs flows into the FV metrics tree which will demonstrate how product/solution contributes to business and customers outcomes

• Actively addressing obstacles and issues that arise during the execution phase, making quick decisions to keep the product development on track

• Perform and maintain competitive market research related to your area of ownership

• Partner with the User Insights Coach and regional CX group to apply user research methods with the purpose of increasing the confidence in the ideas to be developed

• Drive accountability for data-driven decision making

• Ensure solution design validation globally

• Champion for product development excellence. Ensure best-in-class standards for product management and customer co-creation practices

WHO YOU ARE

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems, Information Technology, Product Management, Web Development, Software Development, Agricultural Engineering or similar

• 8+ years of digital product development or product management experience in agriculture, OEM, IoT, cloud architecture, or telematics

• Proven record of successfully launching digital products

• Proven record driving product customer validation

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree in Management Information Systems, Information Technology, Product Management, Web Development, Software Development, Agricultural Engineering or similar

• Entrepreneurial mindset

• Genuine curiosity and high ability to learn

• Building value for both business and customers with a win-win attitude

WHAT WE OFFER

Base salary estimated range between $130-175k annually, depending on the hiring location. You may also be offered bonuses, RSUs cash equivalent, or commission.

• Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability, as well as a Life Solutions Plan covering mental health benefits

• Industry leading 401K match of up to 10%

• Discounted access to Employee Share Purchase Plan program

• Professional growth opportunities including up to $10,000 college tuition reimbursement, access to upskilling platform, leadership training, mentoring and coaching programs, and short-term assignments (domestic and international)

YOUR APPLICATION

At Bayer, we strive to build inclusive experiences for candidates and employees alike in which a diverse set of perspectives and voices are represented. If this role sounds exciting to you but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with the job description, we still encourage you to apply.

This posting will be available for application until at least 11/25/24.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. This means we actively pursue ways to celebrate our differences and don’t discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, sex (including pregnancy), protected veteran status, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or any unlawful criterion existing under applicable federal, state, or local laws.

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