New position available:

Technical Product Manager

Impact Terra is a leading provider of analytics for the global food and agriculture market. The company focuses on improving food security and reducing climate risk. Its software-based platforms provide businesses and governments with global agriculture & climate analytics, and smallholder farmers with actionable advice. Impact Terra was founded in Myanmar in 2016 and currently operates from Amsterdam with clients across the world. 

Our Golden Paddy Crop Insights Portal (GPCI) aggregates and analyzes trillions of data points from satellites and weather stations and provides meaningful insights that enable informed agricultural decision making. The portal provides decision makers with easy to use dashboards, maps and alerts. GPCI enables clients across the global food, feed, insurance, finance and government sectors to make fact-based decisions.

Impact Terra is powered by a visionary and hardworking team. We value entrepreneurship, dedication and adventure. We embrace challenges, work closely as a team to achieve meaningful results and are pragmatic and open to change.

The GPCI portal is providing actionable insights to several clients across the globe. Our sales team is expanding our client base at a rapid pace and therefore we will see a tremendous growth in users on the portal in 2021. We are therefore looking for a Product Manager that can further improve the technology of the platform, the product features and co-develop data/insights services to serve more clients at a higher service level. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

The Technical Product Manager is responsible for the technical development of the Golden Paddy Crop Insights (GPCI) portal focused on businesses and supporting the maintenance of the Golden Paddy (GP) focused on farmers. The Technical Product Manager is responsible for the design, development, deployment and maintenance of the B2B portal. The person continuously incorporates user feedback, internal team feedback and learnings from industry benchmarks into the product. The person researches best practices for interface (UI/UX) and service development, manages development efforts (from UI/UX design to front- and back-end development) and ensures user requirements are met. This includes defining the product roadmap, translating user requirements into product features and working closely with product development, sales and marketing to ensure superior value is delivered to customers.

The candidate should be a visionary entrepreneur with a no-nonsense, critical and constructive attitude with a strong technical acumen, whose responsibilities include:

  • Own and maintain a clear product strategy and roadmap to guarantee effective decision making with the CEO and Management team

  • Own the product features to deliver these services, including feature logic and design

  • Own the technical development, including managing software developers, user acceptance testing and deployment

  • Coordinate the overall system architecture setup and development to optimize scaling, speed and return on investment 

  • Support the development of user services, including user interviews and workshops and developing service blueprints

  • Ensure product-market fit, speed to market and cost to market 

  • Coordinate with Farmer Services, Product Development and Sales departments

REQUIREMENTS

  • Based remotely with potential relocation to Amsterdam post-COVID 

  • Experience managing a remote workforce

  • Demonstrated success in user centered design, ensuring value creation for users

  • Strong understanding of front-end (web and Android) and back-end (Java, Python) technologies to read and assess code

  • Strong Python coding skills, to produce APIs and ETL scripts and manipulate data

  • Excellent vendor management practices

  • Ability to liaise with users, ranging from personnel of financial institutions and agricultural companies to non-governmental organizations (NGOs)

  • Experience using cloud technologies (AWS) is a plus

  • Experience with processing and plotting GIS data (spatial, temporal, large size etc.) and applications (python libraries, postGIS etc.) is a plus

SOFT SKILLS

  • Highly motivated to learn and pick up new skills

  • Strong entrepreneurial drive and focus on results and achievements and work under pressure

  • Robust personality and able to handle multiple projects simultaneously

  • Alignment with Impact Terra’s values

APPLICATIONS

Resume and motivation letter can be sent to hr@impactterra.com. Applications without motivation letters will not be accepted.