Direct Seeded Rice Operations Supervisor

JOB MAIN PURPOSE:

Reporting to the Head of Digital Farming Asia, the Technical Community Captain is responsible for attracting and develop industry leading talents in the Business Design, UX, Data Science, Rapid Prototyping, and Modeling and deploy talents to Crop Science business priorities delivering the most value to farmers across Asia. As the Digital Experience & Technical Manager, you lead a cross disciplinary team (Business Design, UX, Rapid Prototyping, Data Science & Data Analytics) that fuels innovation, experimentation, and digital capability across Asia. You champion customer-centric design, agile ways of working, dynamic talent development, and strategic resourcing. You play a pivotal role in shaping both how we build and how we invest - ensuring the right digital capabilities drive the most impactful outcomes.

YOUR ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Leading Customer Centricity and Agile Experimentation:

• Strengthening deep customer understanding and insights by putting customer needs at the forefront of our innovation initiatives.
• Driving culture and mindset change for experimentation and confidence in iterative development, based on real feedback
• Developing resources and methods for practice of human-centered-design and rapid proHtotyping
• Ensuring our ideation pipeline is evergreen and the community is able to maintain or exceed our portfolio metrics
  
  

• Enable the team to bring the best solutions for our ventures/projects in Asia
• Identifying and recruiting top talents in Business Design, UX, Rapid Prototyping, Data Science and Data Analytics
• Nurturing teams and talent to evolve continuously
• Working closely with senior leadership to forecast skill needs based on upcoming projects and innovations in CX DNV and other business priorities in Asia
• Champion the technical communitys needs, growth, and recognition within the organization Key Tasks:
  
  

• Eliminate silos and foster a culture of cross-functional collaboration
• Facilitating collaboration between technical teams and business stakeholders to rapidly prototype and test new digital solutions.
• Influence the broader organization on the value of ‘digital’ capabilities the community brings
  
  

• Serve as a core member of the milestone funding decision group.
• Shape how budget, talent, and resources flow across initiatives based on impact and evolving priorities.
• Drive discussions on trade-offs, performance, and strategic relevance.
• Scale up, pivot, or sunset projects using desirability, feasibility, and viability lenses.
• Maintain organizational agility by continuously re-prioritizing for maximum value. representing the domain expertise of the technical communities Eliminate silos and foster a culture of cross-functional collaboration Facilitating collaboration between technical teams and business stakeholders to rapidly prototype and test new digital solutions. Influence the broader organization on the value of ‘digital’ capabilities the community brings.
  
  

• 8+ years of experience in digital product development, innovation, or technology leadership roles
• Proven track record of leading multidisciplinary teams across design, technology, and data functions
• Demonstrated success in driving customer-centric innovation and digital transformation initiatives
• Experience managing complex stakeholder relationships and influencing senior leadership
• Background in agile methodologies and rapid experimentation frameworks Technical & Domain Expertise
• Deep understanding of Business Design, UX/UI principles, and human centered design methodologies
• Strong knowledge of rapid prototyping techniques and tools
• Familiarity with Data Science and Data Analytics practices and their business applications
• Understanding of emerging AI / digital technologies and their potential business impact