Job Description

We at Yara are part of a global network, collaborating to profitably and responsibly solve some of the world's key challenges - resource scarcity, food insecurity and environmental change.

About the Unit

About Digital Ag Solutions

Yara aims to be the crop nutrition company for the future and is leading the development of sustainable agriculture and digital tools to contribute to solving global agricultural challenges. We have a worldwide presence with sales teams in ~150 countries and around 17,000 employees.

Drawing on over a century of crop nutrition experience, Yara established the Digital Farming unit - now Digital Ag Solutions (DAS) - 4 years ago to explore how technology could be used to impact farmer livelihoods and productivity. Today, DAS has built products for smallholder and professional farmers, retailers and other farming ecosystem stakeholders across Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe.

We are an international team of engineers, scientists, researchers, designers and agronomists working together to achieve Yara's goal to responsibly feed this world and protect the planet. Join us in building new digital products and services to create value for stakeholders across the agricultural ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Take early top down, strategic initiatives through to "shaped" concepts
• Apply human-centered design principles to develop and recommend new experiences (product, services, technology) that satisfy user experience needs.
• Act as an "Innovation" ambassador internally and externally by advocating for users, facilitating workshops and co-creation sessions.
• Set up ways of working to bring "rails" & "frameworks" to concept validation and to deliver the above. Create visual and interactive artifacts that help bring experiences to life for users, internal business and business partners.
• Work closely with product managers to understand product features and functions and develop future state designs that map to the overall product strategy.
• Work closely with Growth & Commercialization teams to test and iterate on concepts, new business models
• Work with User Research team to conduct discovery of potential concepts, which includes conducting user research, lo-fi testing (at times), market research, and strategic analysis to determine high level desirability, viability and feasibility of the concept.
• Lead and/or support teams of Service, UX designers (internal and external vendors) from rapid prototyping through incubation of new business concepts. Support the development of focused "squads" to work on concept.
• Senior stakeholder engagement, communications and buy-in through the discovery process and new business/solution concepts

Profile

• 10+ years of related experience with at least 4+ years of experience in agile environments in functions related to product management, design, innovation and/or user research
• Experience in strategy consulting/design agency where primary experience is building new businesses (ventures) or products (or advising clients on the same)
• Demonstrated expertise in applying design thinking approaches for problem solving. Strategic mindset with ability to tackle problem solving in a structured yet rapid fashion
• Knowledge of startup incubation / new venture creation methodologies will be desirable
• Strong stakeholder management skills with ability to quickly establish credentials and influence outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to provide strong leadership and clear direction to cross-functional internal and external teams.
• Excellent oral and written communication, presentation and influencing skills with all levels of stakeholders
• Ability to set and adjust priorities under conditions of limited resources and competing demands

Additional Information

We strive to reflect the diversity in society and encourage all qualified applicants from all background to apply. We are committed to creating a work environment that fits gender equality and allows combining career progress with the needs of a family or other personal circumstances

Why us?

• Evolving tech development division of an established agricultural products and services company.
• Explore and develop digital, software, hardware products, which provide value to farmers, smallholder communities and the value chain.
• Be part of our mission to build sustainable solutions that benefit humanity and the environment.
• Full-time, permanent and freelance contract options available with competitive remuneration + benefits.
• Support for personal development, training and continuous learning.
• Commitment to using new technologies and frameworks, meetups, and knowledge sharing.

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Knowledge grows through differences
Yara is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe that creating a diverse and inclusive work environment is not only the right thing, but also the smart thing to do. To deliver on this, Yara has firmly anchored Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) in our business strategy and has more than 400 employees worldwide involved in D&I ambassadors networks.