Digital Product Owner

About Syngenta 

At Syngenta Seeds Field Crops, we're shaping the future of agriculture and empowering farmers to meet the ever-growing demand for food and fuel. We’re a global Ag Tech powerhouse, headquartered in the United States, with passionate, local experts collaborating with farmers to deliver solutions that create market opportunities.  We unite precision breeding, advanced biotechnology trait choice, and digital platforms for unmatched in-field performance.  Our seeds help mitigate risks such as disease, insect, weed, and extreme weather pressures, all while promoting sustainable farming practices that protect and enhance our planet. Join our mission of revolutionizing food security and transforming agriculture. 

At Syngenta, our goal is to build the most collaborative and trustworthy team in agriculture, providing top-quality seeds and innovative crop protection solutions that improve farmers' success. To support this mission, Syngenta’s Operations & Trialing team is seeking a Digital Product Owner. This role will be responsible for defining, delivering, and continuously enhancing digital products that support enterprise strategy development, portfolio management, and operational planning.

The Digital Product Owner acts as the primary interface between business planning stakeholders and technical delivery teams, ensuring that digital solutions enable data-driven decision-making, scenario planning, resource optimization, and execution alignment.

A key focus of this role is the design and delivery of operational planning tools and capabilities that enable the organization to translate strategy into executable plans. This encompasses supporting resource allocation, capacity planning, execution tracking, and operational decision-making across global and regional teams.

The Product Owner owns the product roadmap and backlog for planning-focused digital capabilities, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities, planning cycles, and measurable business outcomes.

Accountabilities:

• Own and evolve the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for digital solutions supporting enterprise strategy, portfolio management, and operational planning.
• Lead the design and delivery of operational planning tools, featuring resource/capacity planning, execution frameworks, workflow orchestration, and scenario modeling.
• Translate strategic objectives into clear epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria; prioritize the backlog based on business value and planning impact.
• Serve as the strategic interface between planning stakeholders (Strategy, Operations, Finance, Analytics) and technical delivery teams, driving alignment on priorities and adoption.
• Deliver integrated planning capabilities, encompassing scenario simulation, portfolio prioritization, plan-vs.-actual tracking, and dynamic re-planning across global teams.
• Lead Agile product execution at scale, covering backlog refinement, sprint/PI planning, cross-team dependency management, and acceptance of delivered features.
• Champion data-driven decision-making by enabling resource visibility, forecasting improvements, KPI monitoring, and alignment with enterprise data governance standards.

PLEASE NOTE: Candidates must reside in and be permanently authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship. This comprises, but is not limited to, OPT, CPT, and H-1B visa holders.

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Agriculture, Business, Finance, Life Sciences, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in Digital Product Ownership, Product Management, or a related leadership role within a complex, data-driven enterprise environment.
• Proven experience delivering digital products that support:
  • Strategic planning.
  • Portfolio management.
  • Operational planning and execution.
• Strong understanding of:
  • Portfolio and program management.
  • Operational planning processes (capacity, resource, execution planning).
  • Data-driven decision-support systems.
• Experience working in Agile delivery frameworks (Scrum, SAFe, LeSS, etc.).
• Experience in agricultural, scientific, R&D, or similarly complex technical domains is required.
• Candidates must demonstrate the ability to operate effectively within highly specialized, data-intensive environments and engage credibly with scientific and planning stakeholders.

Salary for this position ranges between $114,000 - $163,000 annually.

What We Offer: 

• A culture that celebrates belonging and collaboration, promotes professional development and strives for a work-life balance that supports the team members. Offers flexible work options to support your work and personal needs. 
• Full Benefit Package (Medical, Dental & Vision) that starts your first day. 
• 401k plan with company match, Profit Sharing & Retirement Savings Contribution. 
• Paid Vacation, Paid Holidays, Maternity and Paternity Leave, Education Assistance, Wellness Programs, Corporate Discounts, among other benefits. 

Syngenta has been ranked as a top employer by Science Journal. Learn more about our team and our mission here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVCN_51GbNI 

Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. 

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