American farmers have made tremendous technology advancements through hardware improvements and investments in precision agriculture. However, when it comes to the back-office, most farms are decades behind, relying on spreadsheets, filing cabinets, and decades-old on-prem software to recruit, manage, and pay their workforce. Seso is addressing this problem by modernizing the back-office for the farm.
Our mission is to build the premier platform for agribusiness to hire and manage their workforce and improve the lives of agricultural workers. We are addressing American farmers’ biggest pain point - access to qualified labor - through a software-enabled labor solution that automates the H-2A visa. Our comprehensive HR platform streamlines and automates the hiring process for farms and seamlessly integrates their efforts across recruitment, onboarding, payroll, and insurance while providing workers access to financial services for the first time.
Seso has raised over $60M from Tier I investors including Index, Founders Fund, and Mary Meeker at Bond, and has been recognized with awards including Forbes Rising Stars and Andreessen Horowitz's American Dynamism 50.
About the Role
Seso’s modern platform provides employers with orders of magnitude increases in efficiency, while helping them stay compliant and communicate with their workforce. We are changing the way our customers do business, and they want more of our help. We are looking for an Innovation Product Manager to own creation and delivery of a roadmap of new product ideas that will make a step-change in the our customers’ businesses and in Seso’s.
The role has both a high level of autonomy and ownership. You will be responsible for working with a diverse set of senior leaders to look across the agribusiness landscape and identify new pools of value for Seso (think working at high abstraction levels to solve key company business goals vs. solve a specific problem). You will be responsible for designing and implementing a prioritization framework, identifying the most attractive opportunities, and defining solutions — this is a role that is as much “zero to one” as “pre-zero to zero.” We want someone capable of going broad and deep, and using data to understand when to switch modes.
Responsibilities
- Owning and delivering discovery of new pools of value for Seso across technical products, services, insurance, and others
- Working closely with design, engineering, and revenue stakeholders to define a cohesive product strategy and roadmap
- Translating ambiguous or complex ideas into clear, executable projects
- Spending time to deeply understand and elevate the voices of our users
- Combining qualitative research with quantitative analysis to inform product decisions
- Owning and driving the product lifecycle from ideation through implementation and launch
Skillset
You may be a good fit for this role if:
- You have 5+ years of experience as a product manager, including 3+ years in a New Products or Innovation capacity
- You have experience being client facing, either as a seller or in a business development capacity
- You’re a structured problem-solver with an interest in improving the lives of agricultural farmworkers and the viability of the agriculture industry
- You are interested in autonomously owning a roadmap
- You like talking to customers and can quickly build credibility and trust
- You have a strong track record of delivering key business results
Benefits
- Talented and fun teammates who don't take themselves too seriously
- Competitive Salary and meaningful equity
- Excellent medical and dental insurance plans
- Flexible work schedule and unlimited vacation
- Budget and support for personal development
- Last week of the year off for company wide winter break
- Company sponsored team events
Diversity is more than a commitment at Seso, it is the foundation of what we do. We pride ourselves on building the premier platform that serves agribusiness and improves the lives of agricultural workers. We believe in diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, ethnicity, national origin and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us all feel welcome.
Top Skills
What We Do
Seso is a vertical software company for agriculture. We are addressing the labor shortage in US agriculture by providing farms with reliable workforce management software; a $15B opportunity. Our service offering includes recruiting, qualifying and training workers via H-2A visa automation, and workforce management software to help employers stay compliant with complex local and federal laws. We are providing agricultural employers with a better quality workforce at a lower cost and agricultural workers with meaningful and safe employment opportunities.
