Senior Director of Engineering

More than seven billion people depend on farms for healthy and affordable food. By 2050, the global population will surpass nine billion and farmers will need new ways to deliver on this surging demand. They’ll be seeking options that both sustain the environment and help them to be economically viable, and are increasingly turning to the world’s leading Farm Management Software (FMS), Granular.

As an organization, we are committed to delivering the most innovative and industry leading digital products that our customers will love.

We’re looking for a passionate & supportive individual, to report to our VP of Engineering, to infuse our team with ownership, empathy, technical aptitude, intellectual horsepower, and leadership skills to evolve and mature the development of our Insights Platform. This role leads our Insights Engineering Group and partners with Product, Design, and other leadership on strategy for products used by our farmers.

At Granular, you’ll have the opportunity to work with a top-tier leadership team with proven entrepreneurial expertise to reshape the $3 trillion agriculture industry. We’re growing quickly, and expanding our team. We’re looking for proactive, intellectual, and versatile individuals to join our team to improve the lives of our farmers.

Throughout the pandemic, we’ve provided an employee-focused response to COVID-19 where safety is key. As of July 2021, we reopened our Johnston, IA and Champaign, IL office hubs and now offer a hybrid approach of intentional in office time to work and collaborate, balanced with the flexibility to work from home. Our San Francisco office will reopen this fall. 

What you’ll get to do:

• Lead a team of hard-working Engineering Managers, Software Engineers, and Architects
• Partner cross-functionally to drive the strategy, roadmap, and execution for our Granular Insights Platform 
• Grow, mentor, and inspire a diverse team of engineers with a high degree of appreciation and emotional intelligence
• Develop and champion partnerships with Product, QA, TPM, Design, Customer Support, & GTM to develop the best-in-class experience for our users
• Improve all aspects of the product and deliver outstanding results for our customers
• Contribute to building an impactful engineering culture that is technical and data-driven
• Continuously refine and improve our software development and delivery process, leading to measurable improvement in velocity, predictability, responsiveness, and quality

Who you are:

• 15 years of professional experience in software engineering 
• 7+ years leading and managing engineering projects and teams
• Strong EQ and ability to build successful partnerships
• You have hired, built, coached, and led an extraordinary engineering organization
• Proven ability to lead teams through change and resolve interpersonal issues with clarity and integrity
• Strong architecture skills and technical knowledge. Has led and participated in architecture, design, and technology discussions. You have a point of view and can facilitate the process of resolving ambitious technical and architectural issues within and across groups.
• Mentored and grown Managers, Sr. Managers, and built an effective succession pipeline
• Partnered with Product and supporting teams to develop and implement consistent and reliable product delivery and support processes
• Worked in engineering organizations with the right level of collaboration and processes that scale to support an engineering team size of 200.
• Passionate about communicating and sharing a vision across a diverse, distributed organization.

Bonus Points:

• Familiarity with agriculture.
• Familiarity with server and client-side international concerns and compliance.
• Experience working with large-scale geospatial data processing systems.
• Collaborated with a large parent company or 3rd party companies.
• Written or participated in patent development.

Perks and Benefits: 

• Upward mobility. We are growing and need talent who can take on increasingly challenging and rewarding roles
• Flexible Vacation Policy + Sick Time
• 10 paid company holidays per year
• Volunteer Time Off
• 401k Matching Program
• Employer-sponsored Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability and Life Insurance
• Healthcare and Dependent Care FSA
• Family Parental Leave
• Learning Programs and Employee Development
• Open floor plan and dog-friendly offices when offices re-open
• As of July 2021, we reopened our Johnston, IA and Champaign, IL office hubs and now offer a hybrid approach of intentional in office time to work and collaborate, balanced with the flexibility to work from home. Our San Francisco office will reopen this fall. 

Who We Are:

Granular is Farm Management Software (FMS) that is helping thousands of farmers to build stronger farms today and steward their lands for generations to come. Granular uniquely combines an industry-leading support team with the most recommended suite of easy-to-use powerful software to help farmers and their teams run all aspects of their farm business. From financials to agronomy to operations, farmers are now able to make data-driven decisions with greater confidence in an increasingly challenging environment.

Granular was founded in 2014 with the mission of helping farmers run more profitable and efficient business instead of maximizing bushels. Built as a collaboration between several of the most advanced family farms and top technology investors including Google Ventures, Granular is widely credited for launching the first modern, built in the cloud and mobile-centric FMS in 2014. In 2017, Corteva Agriscience acquired Granular to bring together the best technologists, scientists, and entrepreneurs from across the world with its global presence and deep resources to serve the needs of farmers through the transformative effects of digital technologies.

Today, our over 400 passionate employees are on a mission helping our customers solve their problems today and for food demands in the future by shaping agriculture through continuous innovations in farm productivity, profitability, and environmental sustainability.

Granular is San Francisco-based, with offices worldwide. Granular is an independent, wholly-owned subsidiary of Corteva Agriscience (NYSE:CTVA), a spin off of DowDuPont™. Learn more about our company and people at http://granular.ag/ (http://granular.ag/), Twitter, @GranularAg, and Instagram, @Granular_Ag, or facebook.com/GranularAgriculture/ (https://www.facebook.com/GranularAgriculture/)

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.