[Hiring] Lead Product Manager, Farmer Insights Applications @John Deere

Role Description

We are seeking a Lead Product Manager to define and lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution of the Farmer Insights Platform, a portfolio of products and capabilities designed to help farmers make better decisions through trusted, data-driven insights. This role is part of a newly formed team focused on building the future of decision intelligence in agriculture.

• The platform combines the creation of a discovery platform that will help farmers optimize their operations, from planning through execution.
• These capabilities create a closed-loop intelligence system that generates insights, measures outcomes, quantifies economic value, and continuously improves over time.
• This role sits at the intersection of product management, customer discovery, artificial intelligence, agronomy, data science, and software development.
• Success requires balancing innovation with trust, speed with rigor, and experimentation with scalable execution.

Your Responsibilities

• Product Strategy & Vision:
  • Define and drive the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Farmer Insights Platform.
  • Establish a long-term product strategy that transforms agricultural data into trusted, evidence-based recommendations.
  • Identify opportunities to create customer value through data, analytics, machine learning, and AI-driven insights.
  • Drive product decisions that scale across multiple crops, geographies, farming practices, and customer segments.
• Product Development & Execution:
  • Lead the development and growth of the insights platform from concept through launch and ongoing iteration.
  • Define how insights are generated, prioritized, presented, measured, and improved over time.
  • Partner closely with Engineering, Machine Learning, Data Science, Design, and Agronomy teams to deliver high-impact customer experiences.
  • Translate ambiguous customer problems into clear product requirements and execution plans.
  • Balance short-term delivery objectives with long-term platform investments.
• Customer Discovery & Validation:
  • Engage directly with farmers, dealers, agronomists, and industry stakeholders to understand customer needs, workflows, and challenges.
  • Lead customer discovery efforts to validate product opportunities and assumptions.
  • Develop a deep understanding of customer decision-making processes and economic outcomes.
  • Use customer insights and product analytics to continuously improve product direction and prioritization.
• Platform & Ecosystem Leadership:
  • Define how successful product innovations transition from experimentation into scalable platform capabilities.
  • Partner with Operations Center teams to integrate validated insights into existing customer workflows.
  • Drive alignment across multiple teams and stakeholders to ensure successful adoption and scaling.
  • Establish frameworks for measuring customer impact, product adoption, and business value.
• Cross-Functional Leadership:
  • Influence and align stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Agronomy, Design, and Business leadership.
  • Facilitate strategic discussions and trade-off decisions across competing priorities.
  • Communicate product vision, roadmap, risks, and outcomes clearly to executive leadership and cross-functional teams.
  • Foster a culture of experimentation, learning, and customer-centric decision-making.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Product Management experience with increasing levels of ownership and responsibility.
• Proven experience building and launching complex software products from concept to production.
• Experience leading product strategy and execution for data-intensive, AI-driven, analytics, or platform products.
• Strong customer discovery and product validation experience.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
• Experience partnering closely with Engineering, Design, Data Science, and business stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven approach to decision-making.
• Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.
• Ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives across multiple teams and organizations.

Technical & Product Skills

• Strong understanding of modern software product development processes.
• Experience working with data platforms, analytics products, machine learning systems, or AI-enabled products.
• Familiarity with experimentation frameworks, product analytics, and outcome measurement.
• Ability to translate technical concepts into customer value and business outcomes.

What Makes You Stand Out

• Experience building AI- or machine learning-powered products.
• Experience creating products in agriculture, industrial technology, robotics, autonomy, geospatial technologies, or adjacent industries.
• Experience launching net-new products or platforms from the ground up.
• Familiarity with agronomy, agricultural operations, precision agriculture, or farm management workflows.
• Experience working with large-scale data platforms and decision-support systems.
• Experience measuring customer outcomes and economic impact through product analytics.
• Experience scaling products from early experimentation into broadly adopted platforms.
• MBA or advanced degree in a technical, business, agricultural, or related field.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in a technical, business, agricultural or related field.

What Make This Role Unique

• Build a category-defining product from the ground floor.
• Lead both product discovery and platform-scale execution.
• Help establish and scale a new product capability within John Deere while working with a highly entrepreneurial team focused on rapid learning and customer impact.
• Work across agriculture, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, and software.
• Create measurable customer impact by helping farmers make better decisions and achieve stronger economic outcomes.

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements.
• Highly competitive base pay.
• Savings & Retirement benefits (401K and Defined Contribution).
• Healthcare benefits with a generous company contribution in the Health Savings Account.
• Adoption assistance.
• Employee Assistance Programs.
• Tuition assistance.
• Fitness subsidies and on-site gyms at specific Deere locations.
• Charitable contribution match.
• Employee Purchase Plan & numerous discount programs for personal use.
• Vacation and Holiday Pay.
• $183,264.00 - $274,884.00 + Benefits.