Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Crop Diagnostix is a venture-backed agtech startup using genomics and AI to provide actionable agricultural insights from plant signals. The AI-Native Product Manager will connect customers with engineering, lead product discovery and roadmap prioritization, manage integrations and feedback, and ship products directly using AI-assisted development.
Responsibilities
- Lead product discovery across growers, agronomy and input-company partners, and internal lab/ops staff, and translate findings into a prioritized, evidence-based roadmap
- Write clear, actionable specs directly with engineering, no intermediary roles: well-defined user stories, edge cases, acceptance criteria, and reasoning behind priorities
- Make and communicate prioritization trade-offs across the pipeline: grower-facing insights, input insights, lab tooling, backend integrations, and AI/data access
- Own the product feedback loop: usage analytics, support signals, partner feedback, and operational pain points
- Manage integration partnerships with data providers and future partners
- Scale product practices as the technical team grows, coordinating priorities across concurrent workstreams
- Start running product and customer discovery conversations, building toward a weekly cadence
- Shadow the commercial and engineering teams to understand today's handoffs and gaps
- Map the current product roadmap
- Partner with the Founding Software Engineer and ship your first fix or small feature
- Reach five customer discovery conversations per week
- Meaningfully reduce commercial team time spent scoping product and briefing engineering
- Be shipping features directly using AI-assisted development, in partnership with the Founding Software Engineer
- Get at least one pilot account live and actively using a new product or major feature
- Fully eliminate CEO and commercial team time spent scoping product and briefing engineering
- Take independent ownership of the roadmap, so prioritization no longer requires the CEO's sign-off
Skills
- • 3+ years of product management experience (4+ preferred); demonstrated experience owning a roadmap end to end, from raw customer signal to shipped outcome
- • Professional experience in agriculture or ag tech (farming, agronomy, retail, crop inputs, equipment, or similar)
- • Experience working on a technical product, ideally B2B or field-operations software
- • Hands-on experience shipping code using AI-assisted coding tools
- • Experience working directly with an engineering team: PRs, code review, development workflow
- • Authorization to work in the U.S. (no visa sponsorship currently offered)
- • Product Ownership: You build the roadmap yourself; you don't wait to be handed one
- • AI-Native Execution: You use AI tools daily to move from idea to shipped feature, and you own the quality of every AI-assisted change before it merges
- • Technical Fluency: You write requirements clear enough that there's exactly one way to interpret them, and you can read code, data models, and API discussions to engage credibly with engineering
- • Customer-First Discovery: You want to be on the phone with growers, agronomists, and partners regularly, not occasionally
- • Independent Judgment: You decide what ships next across competing priorities without escalating every call
- • Cross-Functional Fluency: You communicate naturally across agronomy, commercial, science, engineering, and lab/ops
- • Startup or early-stage company experience strongly preferred
- • Experience delivering mobile products used in field operations
- • Experience managing product-side integrations with data providers (ag equipment APIs, data layers)
- • Domain exposure to lab or LIMS workflows, or diagnostics
Benefits
- Full-time | Remote (US) or San Diego
- Relocation offered to our San Diego HQ if interested
- Meaningful equity at an early stage
- Direct, high-leverage ownership: your specs ship in days, not quarters, working one-on-one with the CEO and Founding Software Engineer, no layers in between
- Collaborate with a world-class team of experts across agriculture, biotech, and AI
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