Director, Digital Product

About Pivot Bio: Fueled by an innovative drive and a deep understanding of microbiology, genomics, crop nutrition and agriculture, Pivot Bio is pioneering game-changing advances in fertilizer technology. Our first commercial product harnesses the power of naturally-occurring microbes, modern gene editing and application technologies to provide nitrogen to crops. We are dedicated to providing new solutions for farmers to improve yield as they work to help feed the world’s growing population. Read/Hear more about Pivot Bio on Forbes or PBS News Hour. Pivot Bio’s Director, Digital Product is accountable for translating Pivot’s digital strategy into a cohesive, portfolio-level product system that accelerates commercial adoption, strengthens product evidence, and enables next-generation agronomic innovation. This role owns portfolio-level product direction, sequencing, and delivery alignment across Pivot’s core digital products, ensuring coordinated evolution, disciplined tradeoffs, and delivery in step with the agronomic cycle. Operating at the intersection of agronomy, data, engineering, AI, and commercial execution, the Director translates complex scientific and business priorities into clear product strategy, integrated roadmaps, and seasonal release plans while balancing near-term commercial outcomes with long-term platform health. This role requires strong executive judgment in environments defined by ambiguity, cross-functional dependencies, and seasonal constraints, and serves as a key product leadership interface to Digital leadership and enterprise stakeholders. This role can be located either in Minneapolis, MN or St. Louis, MO. Essential Functions: Own portfolio-level product strategy, prioritization, and sequencing across Pivot’s digital products Establish and enforce product intake, prioritization, and tradeoff discipline to protect roadmap integrity, especially during in-season execution Lead quarterly portfolio and seasonal release planning, aligning Commercial, Product Innovation, Manufacturing, and Partnerships Partner closely with Architecture to ensure product decisions reinforce data standards, APIs, platform scalability, and long-term system health Provide product leadership to Engineering and Data Science by defining clear outcomes, success metrics, and release criteria across the portfolio Ensure all digital products are adoption-ready, including field workflows, partner enablement, and operational readiness Define and own portfolio-level product metrics spanning adoption, evidence quality, operational reliability, and commercial impact Facilitate executive-level tradeoff decisions balancing speed, technical debt, scalability, and seasonal risk Communicate portfolio status, risks, and learnings to Digital leadership, ELT, and executive stakeholders Competencies: Product portfolio leadership: Proven ability to lead and govern a multi-product or platform portfolio, setting direction, sequencing priorities, and enforcing disciplined tradeoffs Systems & platform thinking: Deep understanding of how products, data, workflows, and integrations interact across agronomy, commercial execution, and partner ecosystems Executive judgment under ambiguity: Comfortable making and defending high-impact decisions with incomplete information, seasonal constraints, and competing stakeholder priorities Operating model ownership: Ability to establish and evolve product governance, intake discipline, and release rituals that scale execution without slowing teams down Agronomic & data fluency: Comfortable operating in domains involving field trials, agronomic data, analytics, and AI-enabled decision systems Stakeholder and influence leadership: Effectively aligns senior leaders, functional heads, and external partners without relying on formal authority Outcome accountability: Bias toward measurable portfolio-level outcomes including adoption, evidence quality, operational reliability, and commercial impact Required Education & Exp