• Contribute and thrive in a cross-functional team environment
• Have a customer focused mentality
• Cultivate effective relationships throughout the company and with outside partners
• Welcome opportunities to solve work-related challenges
• Commit to bringing their best every day, continually seeking to exceed the status quo
• Have strong communication skills and be able to relate to customers, engineers, product managers and company leadership

Date of Posting: 4/14/2023                           FLSA Status: Salaried, exempt

Location: Ames, IA                                          Supervisory: No

Team: Product Testing                                   Reports to: Product Testing Manager

The Culture

Ag Leader was born from a passion and determination to transform agriculture forever. In 1992, Ag Leader changed the industry by bringing real-time yield data to farmers’ fingertips. Today, more than 25 years later, Ag Leader has become a global team that provides year-round solutions to help farmers plan, plant, apply, and harvest more efficiently and profitably. We are improving the lives of farmers. We are increasing the efficiency of production agriculture around the world. And we aren’t slowing down. Ready to use your talent to implement change? Join our team of innovators revolutionizing agriculture.

The Opportunity

As Testing Project Lead, you are responsible for planning and coordinating functional testing and field testing of new products and features from all Ag Leader product lines. You will be a champion of releasing quality products. You will collaborate with departments throughout the company to ensure Ag Leader releases high quality products that meet the needs and improve the lives of our customers. As a leader, you will demonstrate and promote the Ag Leader Way:

• Willing, Ready, Doing
• Courage to do what is Right
• Excellence
• Approachable

The Right Person Will

• • Contribute and thrive in a cross-functional team environment
  • Have a customer focused mentality
  • Cultivate effective relationships throughout the company and with outside partners
  • Welcome opportunities to solve work-related challenges
  • Commit to bringing their best every day, continually seeking to exceed the status quo
  • Have strong communication skills and be able to relate to customers, engineers, product managers and company leadership

Responsibilities

• • Lead the development of a testing plan that ensures quality and customer satisfaction, taking into consideration our whole portfolio of current and future products
  • Collaborate with other teams to ensure project execution and schedule aligns with other development and manufacturing teams regarding field testing and release dates
  • Communicate testing team needs, risks and concerns for internal and field-testing plans to ensure issues are resolved throughout execution of project
  • Analyze interproject dependencies to understand and communicate effects and trade-off decisions for all projects currently in development   
  • Own the testing team backlog, ensure it is maintained, relevant and prioritized across multiple projects
  • Work with other leaders in the company to improve and execute our product development process
  • Identify testing initiatives that contribute to the future success of our team
  • Promote a positive team culture that grows members abilities and ensures a high performing team

Qualifications and Skills

• • Bachelor’s degree and relevant experience in related technical field
  • Desire to continually grow leadership skills
  • Experience with Agile software development
  • Experience with general farming practices and precision ag use in production agriculture
  • Deep Knowledge of technical and customer use for at least one Ag Leader product line: Displays, Steering/Guidance, GPS, Harvest, Planting, Application, Desktop Software, Water Management
  • Experience with Ag Leader product development teams preferred
  • 5+ years’ experience in a product development environment

To apply, please submit your resume below.