Who are we, and what do we do?
Corteva Agriscience is the only major agriscience company in the world completely dedicated to agriculture. Our purpose is to enrich the lives of those who produce and those who consume, ensuring progress for generation to come. Our inspiration is to be a market shaper, driving the next generation of agriculture products that help farms and farmers flourish and through partnering with society becoming the most trusted partner in the global agriculture and food community.  

Corteva Agriscience creates the world's most recognized and premium agricultural solutions to address the greatest challenges in agriculture. With a focus on technology, Corteva Agriscience creates seed and crop protection products that increase productivity and profit for farmers while reducing risks to their business. Every day our digital tools deliver insights our global partners need to thrive now and into the future. As the world's first dedicated agriculture start-up, we're building a culture that stays curious, thinks differently, acts boldly and takes a stand on what's right for our customers, our co-workers, our partners and our team-oriented environment.

Corteva Agriscience is looking for an innovative and energetic IT Product Lead (ITPL).

An IT Product Lead (ITPL) provides product consultation to Corteva's Agile Product teams and SaaS providers through collaboration with both business and technology stakeholders.? 

ITPLs are directly responsible for helping the business achieve their goals by serving as a critical role in the Product Development Process, bridging business strategy, process, and technology execution.

As a Technology Leader they contribute by:

• Possessing deep product knowledge - maintains product roadmap and business capability roadmap, applying Product best practices.
• Knowing the Business - works to develop a deep understanding of business process and challenges to help envision unforeseen process/technology capabilities that maximize business value.
• Knowing our Capabilities - develops and leverages broad knowledge of Corteva's enterprise digital capabilities to maximize utilization, reduce time to market, standardize execution, and enable global scalability.
• Knowing the Industry - develops and maintains current technical knowledge to support rapidly changing technology, always on the lookout for new technologies, trends, and best practices that elevate the digital experience

As a Builder they contribute by:

• Mapping Business Capabilities - understands Corteva business and IT processes to uncover, map, and monitor business processes to assess current state. Identifies standardization and simplification opportunities and emerging requirements for improving business processes.
• Crafting the Design - performs needs assessments, defines scope, budget, identifies solutions/risks, and creates high-level solution designs. Creates high level requirements sand acceptance criteria.
• Developing the Roadmap - transforms the strategic plan into a rolling product plan, working to gather input from business and technology stakeholders. As a Senior ITPL, presenting a balanced view of business and technology priorities, and being able to influence and present trade-offs becomes an increasing expectation.

As an Operator they contribute by:

• Managing Product Development Delivery - maintains business capability maps and facilitates product roadmap tactical execution and planning. Creates high-level requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Supporting the Team - performs impact and business value assessments for defects, changes, opportunities and ensures overall solution health and technical excellence. Possesses a deep understanding of all product backlog items. Validates and communicates releases to business partners. 

How an IT PL works

• Maps Business Capabilities: Collaborates with Business stakeholders, Product Owners, and technology counterparts to define and drive the tactical, day-to-day aspects of discovering, validating, documenting and mapping business processes through modeling, simulating and analyzing current and future states.
• Designs Solutions: partners with UX, Engineers, ITPO and stakeholders to discover needs, provide mock-ups, t-shirt and detailed estimates for holistic solution delivery.
• Manages Product Roadmap: Partners with the business and IT stakeholders to drive multi-year and annual product strategies; collaborates with ADL, PMs, and delivery teams to guide business aligned execution 

What are an ITPL's skills and behaviors?

• Strategic Enablement: Leverage technical leadership to enable business strategy through constructing technical product roadmaps through discovery and innovation of IT solutions. Ability to invent process/technology capabilities that users never imagined; can start from scratch.
• Business IQ: Growing knowledge and understanding of their business partners and how they fit within Corteva overall; Participate in industry peer groups to understand industry trends. Passion for user-centered design, results driven by insights and analytics and a focus on investment return.
• Technology IQ: Growing knowledge and understanding of leading and emerging technologies related to their business partners and associated technology product families; Participate in industry peer groups to understand industry trends.
• Organizational Agility: Views ambiguity as opportunity to define and drive business evolution and value; effortlessly structures large amounts of complex information within a process framework. Doesn't overthink; can identify analysis paralysis and over-engineering in self and others.
• Communication IQ: Comfortable flexing communication styles to facilitate consensus, engages others with perspective thinking, knows negative triggers, fully self-aware, excels at presenting ideas and solutions

Key Responsibilities - What you will do to help us grow!

• Facilitates defining Rolling Roadmap for multiple years along with OKRs and KPIs.
• Facilitates Quarterly Planning Facilitate the 4 Quarter Plan.
• Documents and monitors business processes to assess current state. Identify standardization and simplification opportunities and emerging requirements for improving business processes.
• Translates business needs into specific business requirements. Collaborate with Solution Architects to translate business requirements into functional / technical requirements.
• Supports BRM and PO with estimating benefits to business processes and building business cases.
• Create user stories for desired solution functionality.
• Partners with Solution Architects and Developers to support solution development activities.
• Partners with delivery vendors. Communicates technical requirements, define deliverables, and oversee execution.
• Collaborates with IT Infrastructure & Operations to define Release plan.

Education and Experience - What you'll bring to the table!

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computer Science, MIS, Information Technology, or Business Administration is preferred and/or equivalent experience.
• PMP, Six Sigma Green Belt, or Agile/Scrum certifications are highly valued.
• 5-7 years of experience in business analysis, project management or consulting roles.
• Experience in product development and technology consultation.
• Proven competency in strategic planning and stakeholder engagement.
• Experience in solution design, Agile methodologies, and product roadmap development.
• Familiarity with business capability mapping.
• Experience with tools like Power BI, SQL, Mural, or business process modeling software.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional projects and drive business outcomes.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to facilitate consensus.

Benefits - How We'll Support You:

• Numerous development opportunities offered to build your skills

• Be part of a company with a higher purpose and contribute to making the world a better place

• Health benefits for you and your family on your first day of employment

• Four weeks of paid time off and two weeks of well-being pay per year, plus paid holidays

• Excellent parental leave which includes a minimum of 16 weeks for mother and father

• Future planning with our competitive retirement savings plan and tuition reimbursement program

• Learn more about our total rewards package here - Corteva Benefits

• Check out life at Corteva! www.linkedin.com/company/corteva/life

Are you a good match? Apply today! We seek applicants from all backgrounds to ensure we get the best, most creative talent on our team.

Corteva Agriscience is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to embracing our differences to enrich lives, advance innovation, and boost company performance. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, military or veteran status, pregnancy related conditions (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), disability or any other protected status in accordance with federal, state, or local laws.

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