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Job Summary:
Juniper Systems is seeking a visionary Product Leader to drive technology adoption and product strategy for their research agriculture portfolio. The role involves working closely with various teams to ensure revenue growth and profitability while meeting customer needs, as well as creating a multi-year roadmap based on critical customer needs.
Responsibilities:
• Own the Vision, Roadmap, & Priorities: Define and continuously hone the product family roadmap. Clarify exactly what the product should achieve and how success will be measured through clear KPIs and data-driven business analysis. Decide what to build next—and what *not* to build—based on a rigorous assessment of impact, effort, risk, and overarching strategy.
• Deep Market & VOC Integration: Actively leverage your existing network within the ag research industry. Understand customers and their core problems by talking directly to users, collecting feedback, analyzing usage data, and identifying pain points. Use advanced methodologies (e.g., Applied Marketing Science’s Voice of the Customer) to document and prioritize what researchers truly need to get their jobs done. Communicate with all HM customers segments, Commercial seed and Chemical Companies, Commercial Seed Companies, Contract Research Organization (CRO), Independent Researchers, Universities and USDA ARS facilities, International and National Institutes, Chemical Companies, and Co-Ops
• Technical Pipeline Initiation & Execution: Translate VOC and market research into compelling Market Requirements Documents (MRDs). Turn ideas into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical specifications that teams can build from. Participate actively in planning, answering questions, make strategic tradeoffs, and help remove blockers during execution.
• Go-to-Market Strategy: Perform rigorous competitive analysis. Work seamlessly with Sales & Marketing and the Service group to successfully position, message, and launch the product, defining key differentiators and target customer profiles.
• P&L and Pricing Ownership: Accountable for the fiscal success of the product line. Work closely with HarvestMaster Sales and Service teams to set strategic pricing and discount structures in conformance with the business model, unit profitability, and what the research market will bear.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Report the fiscal performance and strategic positioning of the HarvestMaster product lines to the HarvestMaster Leadership team.
• Supportability: Ensure that all products being developed are designed such that they can be efficiently supported in the field.
• Database Management: Develop and maintain a database of customer needs using Applied Marketing Science’s Voice of the Customer methodology for HarvestMaster Products to guide new product development.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Deep, practical experience working in the research agriculture industry/institutions.
• Bachelor of Science in business, engineering, agronomy, or a related field with 7+ years of practical business/product management experience.
• A proven track record of managing technical products, defining sweeping roadmaps, and launching successful, complex products.
• Established industry connections.
• Exceptional organizational, leadership, and presentation skills to advocate for initiatives internally and externally.
• Ability to synthesize diverse, complex data into clear, data-driven decisions without folding under pressure.
• Ability to communicate with diverse groups of people from Research Directors, Professors, Procurement, Sales and Marketing, Engineers, and Service.
• Proven communications and organizations skills working with remote teams on projects.
Preferred:
• MBA strongly desired
Company:
Juniper Systems is an electronic manufacturing company that builds ultra-rugged field data collection devices. Founded in 1993, the company is headquartered in Logan, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.