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Founder Director information
What is a founder director?
What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a founder director, and why are they important?
What are some common challenges founder directors face when transitioning from a startup phase to a scaling business?
What is the difference between Founder Director vs Business Development Manager?
| Aspect | Founder Director | Business Development Manager |
|---|---|---|
| Credentials | Typically entrepreneurial experience, industry knowledge, sometimes advanced degrees | Relevant bachelor’s or master’s degree, sales or marketing certifications |
| Work Environment | Leadership role in startup or company, strategic planning, high-level decision making | Client engagement, market research, sales strategy implementation |
| Industry Usage | Founders or early-stage companies, startups, SMEs | Established companies, sales teams, marketing departments |
| Search & Comparison Intent | Understanding leadership roles in startups, entrepreneurial positions | Sales growth, market expansion, client acquisition roles |
The main difference is that a Founder Director is a high-level leadership role often involved in starting and guiding a company, while a Business Development Manager focuses on expanding the company's market presence and sales. Both roles require strategic thinking, but the Founder Director typically has broader responsibilities in company vision and governance.
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Product Lead - Co-Founder | Responsable Produit - Cofondateur
Montreal, QC
Full-time
Posted 17 days ago
Key responsibilities
Diriger la stratégie commerciale, la segmentation du marché et la planification de la mise sur le marché de la plateforme de détection ionique et de fertirrigation.
Établir des relations avec des producteurs, des agronomes et des partenaires pour mener des déploiements pilotes et valider l'adéquation produit-marché.
Collaborer avec l'équipe technique pour aligner le développement des produits sur les exigences commerciales et soutenir la stratégie de commercialisation.
Job description
TandemLaunch is looking for a Product Lead to join the founding team of an early-stage ag-tech startup coming out of our venture studio. We're building a precision ion-sensing platform - electrochemical, ion-selective sensors that monitor nutrient levels (nitrate, potassium, calcium, and more) in real time and automate dosing in the fertigation loop for greenhouse and controlled-environment agriculture (CEA) operations.
Today, growers manage fertigation with static schedules and infrequent manual lab tests, resulting in nutrient imbalances, inconsistent yields, and wasted fertilizer. We're putting a robust, affordable sensor directly in-line so growers get real-time data and automated dosing control in demanding real-world conditions.
About TandemLaunch
TandemLaunch is a Canadian venture studio that builds technology companies out of cutting-edge university research, focused on sensing systems, advanced materials, wireless technology, computer vision, and edge AI.
The Role
This is a founding, equity-bearing position with a competitive cash stipend. The role will include visiting greenhouses in person, being there while a sensor gets wired into a grower's dosing system, and doing the work that earns you a second visit. You'll work closely with our technical team to turn a genuinely new sensing technology into a business growers pay for.
What You'll Actually Be Doing
Getting in front of growers
- Identify and prioritize target accounts - greenhouse operators, vertical farms, CEA integrators, agronomy service providers - and build a pipeline from cold outreach through pilot agreement to paid contract.
- Run on-site demos and field trials: install sensor units, walk growers and their agronomists through the data, and troubleshoot in real growing conditions (not a lab bench).
- Represent the company at grower conferences, trade shows, and industry events to build visibility and a bench of design partners.
Building the commercial engine
- Develop pricing, packaging, and channel strategy - including how to work through distributors or equipment dealers already selling into this market.
- Establish a customer funnel from scratch, with real CRM/pipeline discipline in place from day one so there's full visibility into what's in motion.
- Build the business case and ROI model that makes the ask concrete for a grower: yield improvement, fertilizer and water savings, labor reduction.
Closing the loop with product
- Translate what you hear in the field regarding sensor accuracy, deployment form factor, integration with existing fertigation/dosing hardware, etc. into requirements the technical team can act on.
- Help scope the regulatory, certification, and market-access requirements for agricultural sensing and automated dosing hardware.
Founder-level work
- Contribute to fundraising: investor materials, market sizing, commercial due diligence.
- Set the commercial roadmap and partnership strategy alongside the technical teams
- Be a credible, direct voice with early customers, distribution partners, and investors - you're demonstrating traction, not just describing it.
What We're Looking For
- A BSc/BA in business, agriculture/agronomy, engineering, or a related field.
- Real experience selling or developing products in ag-tech, CEA, greenhouse technology, precision agriculture, or a related sensing/hardware market.
- Working knowledge of greenhouse/CEA operations, fertigation systems, or crop nutrition management
- A track record of closing early deals or pilot programs, ideally at a hardware or deep-tech startup where the product was still rough around the edges.
- Comfort working cross-functionally with engineers - translating what a grower needs into something a technical team can build.
- An entrepreneurial temperament: you have a high tolerance for ambiguity and are comfortable making the plan up as you go, without needing a playbook to know what to do next.
TandemLaunch is committed to building a community of excellence, equity, and diversity. We welcome applications from women, underrepresented minorities, persons with disabilities, sexual minority groups, and other candidates who will enrich our ideas and perspectives.
Responsable produit - Cofondateur(trice)
TandemLaunch est a la recherche d'un(e) chef(fe) de produit pour se joindre a l'equipe fondatrice d'une jeune entreprise agtech en demarrage issue de notre studio de capital-risque. Nous developpons une plateforme de detection ionique de precision - des capteurs electrochimiques selectifs aux ions qui mesurent en temps reel les niveaux de nutriments (nitrate, potassium, calcium et autres) et automatisent le dosage dans la boucle de fertigation pour les serres et les operations d'agriculture en environnement controle (CEA).
Aujourd'hui, les producteurs gerent la fertigation a l'aide d'horaires statiques et de tests de laboratoire manuels peu frequents, ce qui entraine des desequilibres nutritifs, des rendements inconstants et du gaspillage d'engrais. Nous installons un capteur robuste et abordable directement en ligne afin que les producteurs disposent de donnees en temps reel et d'un controle de dosage automatise, meme dans des conditions reelles exigeantes.
A propos de TandemLaunch
TandemLaunch est un studio de capital-risque canadien qui batit des entreprises technologiques a partir de recherches universitaires de pointe, avec un accent sur les systemes de detection, les materiaux avances, les technologies sans fil, la vision par ordinateur et l'IA en peripherie.
Le role
Il s'agit d'un poste fondateur, assorti d'une participation en capital et d'une allocation en argent competitive. Le role consistera notamment a visiter des serres en personne, a etre present pendant qu'un capteur est raccorde au systeme de dosage d'un producteur, et a faire le travail qui vous vaudra une deuxieme visite. Vous travaillerez etroitement avec notre equipe technique pour transformer une technologie de detection reellement nouvelle en une entreprise pour laquelle les producteurs sont prets a payer.
Ce que vous ferez concretement
Aller a la rencontre des producteurs
- Identifier et prioriser les comptes cibles - exploitants de serres, fermes verticales, integrateurs CEA, fournisseurs de services agronomiques - et batir un pipeline, de la prospection a froid jusqu'au contrat payant, en passant par l'entente pilote.
- Realiser des demonstrations et des essais sur le terrain : installer les capteurs, presenter les donnees aux producteurs et a leurs agronomes, et resoudre les problemes dans des conditions de culture reelles (pas sur un banc de laboratoire).
- Representer l'entreprise lors de conferences de producteurs, de salons professionnels et d'evenements de l'industrie afin d'accroitre sa visibilite et de constituer un bassin de partenaires de conception.
Batir le moteur commercial
- Elaborer la strategie de tarification, d'offre groupee et de distribution - y compris la facon de passer par les distributeurs ou les revendeurs d'equipement deja presents sur ce marche.
- Mettre en place un entonnoir de vente a partir de zero, avec une reelle discipline de CRM/pipeline des le premier jour, pour une visibilite complete sur ce qui est en cours.
- Construire l'argumentaire d'affaires et le modele de retour sur investissement qui rend la proposition concrete pour un producteur : amelioration du rendement, economies d'engrais et d'eau, reduction de la main-d'uvre.
Boucler la boucle avec le produit
- Traduire ce que vous entendez sur le terrain concernant la precision des capteurs, le facteur de forme du deploiement, l'integration au materiel de fertigation/dosage existant, etc., en exigences concretes pour l'equipe technique.
- Aider a cerner les exigences reglementaires, de certification et d'acces au marche pour le materiel de detection agricole et de dosage automatise.
Travail de niveau fondateur
- Contribuer a la collecte de fonds : materiel destine aux investisseurs, dimensionnement du marche, diligence raisonnable commerciale.
- Etablir la feuille de route commerciale et la strategie de partenariat aux cotes des equipes techniques.
- Etre une voix credible et directe aupres des premiers clients, des partenaires de distribution et des investisseurs - vous demontrez la traction, vous ne vous contentez pas de la decrire.
Ce que nous recherchons
- Un baccalaureat (BSc/BA) en administration, en agriculture/agronomie, en genie ou dans un domaine connexe.
- Une experience reelle dans la vente ou le developpement de produits en agtech, CEA, technologie de serres, agriculture de precision ou un marche de detection/materiel connexe. Si vous avez forme un reseau de concessionnaires, mene des demonstrations aupres d'agriculteurs, vendu de l'equipement d'irrigation ou de fertigation IoT, ou fait de la vente terrain d'equipement agricole, cela devrait vous sembler familier.
- Une connaissance pratique des operations de serres/CEA, des systemes de fertigation ou de la gestion de la nutrition des cultures.
- Un historique de conclusion d'ententes ou de programmes pilotes precoces, idealement au sein d'une jeune entreprise de materiel ou de technologie de pointe ou le produit etait encore imparfait.
- Une aisance a travailler de facon transversale avec des ingenieurs - traduire les besoins d'un producteur en quelque chose qu'une equipe technique peut concevoir.
- Un temperament entrepreneurial : vous avez une grande tolerance a l'ambiguite et etes a l'aise de batir le plan au fur et a mesure, sans avoir besoin d'un guide pour savoir quoi faire ensuite.
TandemLaunch s'engage a batir une communaute d'excellence, d'equite et de diversite. Nous accueillons favorablement les candidatures des femmes, des minorites sous-representees, des personnes en situation de handicap, des groupes minoritaires sur le plan de l'orientation sexuelle et des autres candidat(e)s qui viendront enrichir nos idees et nos perspectives.