Hi! We're looking
for a Senior Product Manager

Remote
Full-time
FarmTogether
Recognizing that farming is one of the most vital industries on our planet, we want to drive sustainable and prosperous food systems that work for everyone in our globally connected world.

We are creating a technology-driven investment and trading platform for a brand new asset class - a $9 trillion global farmland market, previously only accessible to the largest institutional investors. This is a unique opportunity to join at the very beginning of this exciting journey and help grow a truly innovative financial product while also having an active role in battling climate change and creating food systems of the future.

Our vision is to provide all investors with access to farmland investments, and farmers and farmland owners with access to flexible and creative capital.
About us
Size
Founded
HQ
42
2017
San Francisco
✨ Job Description
Your impact:
Investors across the globe are looking for new investment opportunities. You will have a chance to work on the development of the investments sourcing and underwriting internal client-facing functionality to ensure high adoption and the investment team productivity increase. This role reports to the Head of Product.

As a Senior Product Manager on Maps & Underwriting, you will be responsible for services that process and deliver map data, map styles, map rendering, interactivity and investment underwriting insights. You will:

  • Coordinate and align the roadmap across multiple services and teams to turn data into maps and derive insights crucial for investment decisions;
  • Leverage quantitative and qualitative metrics to help define the success of your product and team;
  • Plan the benefits and performance tradeoffs of complex client-side map customization vs server-side data pre-processing so that you can develop products most efficiently with available resources;
  • Combine technical understanding and design research and thinking to manage a product roadmap for a set of features from inception through implementation;
  • Collect requirements, write product specifications, establish key performance metrics, craft the user experience, and drive execution;
  • Work with business leaders to help shape and drive business cases for product features;
  • Ideate and wireframe new features as well as enhance existing features.

What we're looking for:
  • 3+ years experience with software and technology product management;
  • Broader experience in SaaS, AgTech, InsureTech, FinTech. Previous experience as Business Analyst, Project Management, and Technical Product Management a plus;
  • Ownership and independent delivery of outcomes. You can develop and execute a plan based on a high-level direction for features or product development;
  • An analytical business outcome-driven approach. You have strong SQL skills and use data to properly evaluate the success or failure of features and drive key learnings;
  • Strong written and vocal communication skills. You can talk and write about complex ideas concisely to a wide audience. You crisply articulate context and rationale that helps bring along your teammates and stakeholders;
  • Experience in translating business requirements to analytical requirements & solutions;
  • Ability to set and track measurable results, prioritize based on impact analysis;
  • Demonstrated ability to scope, create and successfully deploy new functionality;
  • Preferred: Background in geospatial product management or delivery. Strong understanding of the nuances of GIS. Experienced in common GIS platforms and technologies such as ESRI/ArcGIS, PostGIS and QGIS;
  • Bonus: Strong knowledge of REST principles for integration with 3rd-party vendors;
  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience;

About the team:
The founding and executive teams have decades of institutional experience in ag, farmland, and food investing, having previously deployed over $1B into this asset class. We also have deep financial and tech expertise that allows us to build investment products for the future. We've raised several million dollars in VC and angel funding to date. We have thousands of investors on our platform and deployed millions of dollars into farmland deals across the United States.

We've already created a diverse work environment and strive to maintain it because we value different perspectives and experiences and do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Funding:
Our backers include Blue Seed Collective, Franklin Templeton ($1.5T global asset manager), Richie Prager (a former key executive at BlackRock, the largest asset manager in the world), founders of Grammarly, founder of Pillpack, former CEO of Fonterra (largest dairy exporter in the world) and many other prominent financial, agricultural and tech professionals.

✋ Meet the team
Artem Milinchuk
CEO & Founder
Artem has over 10 years of finance experience in food, agriculture, and farmland. Prior to founding FarmTogether, Artem was employee #1 and CFO/VP of Operations at Full Harvest Technologies, a now post-Series A B2B platform for buying and selling produce. He previously worked at Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, Sprott Resource Holdings, E&Y and PwC. Artem holds an MBA from The Wharton School, and a BA and MA in Economics from the Higher School of Economics.
David Chan
COO & Founding Team Member
David has over 5 years of experience in finance and technology across agribusiness. Prior to joining FarmTogether, David was a Senior Private Equity Associate at AMERRA Capital Management, an asset manager that specializes in ag investments. He previously worked at Prudential Agriculture Investments, Gro Intelligence, & Barclays Investment Bank. David holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Atmospheric Sciences from Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Olga Ayvazyan
Head of Product & Founding Team Member
Olga has over 6 years of product development and management experience and leads the development of the FarmTogether's platform, machine learning and artificial intelligence land sourcing and underwriting abilities. Prior to joining FarmTogether, Olga was a product manager at Yandex, Russia's #1 search engine. Olga holds an MA in Math and Physics cum laude from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
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