Principal Product Manager

Principal Product Manager As Bayer Crop Science's digital farming arm, we advance regenerative agriculture and technology breakthroughs using the latest agronomic science, data science, engineering, and real‑world farming experience. With groundbreaking technologies like FieldView, our team is part of some of the most important advancements in agriculture. As a Principal Product Manager, you will be responsible for bringing Bayer Digital Farming’s FieldView product vision to fruition across the delivery lifecycle of our digital product. Responsibilities Build and manage trusted stakeholder relationships across global and regional business units. Lead cross‑functional collaboration across user experience, engineering, and science disciplines to deliver aligned solutions. Coach and mentor product managers in key product skillsets. Conduct evidence‑guided discovery in partnership with UX to define user needs and prioritize problems worth solving. Translate market, customer, and competitive insights into clear roadmap priorities and outcome‑oriented plans. Ensure product investments and decisions drive measurable business and customer impact. Leverage design thinking techniques to build and validate concepts. Facilitate delivery team members through ambiguity to develop a shared understanding of the business context and user needs. Craft durable, scalable, global product capabilities that solve problems in a way that is technically feasible, user desirable, and business viable. Drive effective product delivery through clear backlog prioritization and requirements decomposition (story mapping & writing). Shepherd delivery through a strong knowledge of agile principles and practices – ensuring we release software that our customers will love and that works for the business. Qualifications Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Product Management, Business, Science or any product development related field. 12+ years of product management or related roles in digital agriculture. Experience in agile software development with a strong knowledge of agile principles and practices. Proven record of successfully launching digital products globally that contribute positively to business and customer outcomes. Proven record driving product customer validation. Comfortable with ambiguity and thriving on solving complexity. Entrepreneurial mindset. Proven record of leadership through influence. Genuine curiosity and high ability to learn. Skill in building value for both business and customers with a win‑win attitude. Strong knowledge of integrating AI tools into product workflows and digital product capabilities. Compensation and Benefits Employees can expect to be paid a salary of approximately $120k‑180k. Additional compensation may include a bonus or incentive program. Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, and other customary benefits. Location United States: Illinois, Chicago; United States: Missouri, Creve Coeur; United States: Washington, Residence Based; United States: Washington, Seattle. Equal Opportunity Employer Bayer is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans. Bayer is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodations in its application process for individuals with disabilities and encourages applicants with disabilities to request any needed accommodations. Bayer is an E‑Verify Employer. #J-18808-Ljbffr Bayer CropScience Limited