About us and this position

Blue River Technology serves the agricultural industry with revolutionary computer-vision based robotics designed to unlock greater crop yield potential.  Our proprietary systems perform a range of tasks, from making real-time plant thinning decisions to processing huge amounts of plant image data to generate useful metrics for plant breeders.  We envision a future where farmers use robotics to individually care for each plant in their fields.  We have begun by targeting vegetable crops grown locally here in California, and have been recently expanding our work to include a wider range of crops and geographies. Our team of 30 comes from diverse backgrounds in robotics, computer vision, agriculture, and business. We receive support and investment from venture capital firms, including Khosla Ventures and Data Collective as well as grant funding through the NSF SBIR and ARPA-E programs.

Position description

We are looking for a highly skilled and energetic Program Manager to lead the business aspects of our aerial-based phenotyping project that will collect aerial imagery with multi-rotor drones, extract important plant traits from the images, and deliver data to breeders. This project will advance corn and sorghum breeding, bringing the state of the art technology to help develop better varieties.

The responsibilities for this position will include:

• Coordinate communication, technology transfer, and funding with the Dept of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-e)
• Collaborate with our project partners across several commercial companies & national labs
• Create and maintain customer relationships, including large seed companies
• Work to understand customer needs and communicate them to our engineering team

The ideal candidate is:

• Organized, detail oriented, and possesses excellent communication skills
• Brings understanding of the agriculture sector, ideally the seed breeding business
• Excited about bringing new technology to market

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree and 5+ years of relevant work experience
• Experience running projects, programs and /or product management

Please send your resume to careers@bluerivert.com with “Program Manager Aerial” in the subject line and a brief explanation of why your interests and background match this position.

Blue River offers competitive compensation, including equity options, and benefits.