Chief Product Officer​/VP of Product

Location: This role is based out of our office in Cambridge, MA. Remote candidates are welcome to apply, with an expectation of relocation within the first two years.

Target

Start Date:

January 2027

Robigo is crop protection without compromise. Powered by our proprietary ARGO™ platform, Robigo engineers biological solutions that outperform synthetic chemistries, giving growers the tools they need to protect their livelihoods and build a more resilient food system.

This executive will drive the development and translation of discovery-stage microbial candidates to commercially successful solutions. Reporting to the CEO, this cross-functional leadership role suits someone with deep biological crop protection product expertise who thrives at the intersection of strategy and execution in a regulated, fast-moving startup. You'll partner closely with commercial, regulatory, and technical teams to deliver breakthrough products. You’ll be equally comfortable defining a multi-year product vision, owning the minutiae required to execute it, and spending time on-farm ensuring Robigo's products integrate into grower workflows.

Ultimately, you'll ensure our products are compelling, launch on schedule, and demonstrate value to growers and the market.

This is not a 9-to-5 role. We move fast, we strive for excellence, and we expect the same from you.

Product Strategy: Implement a repeatable product development process and lifecycle management discipline, grounded in empirical evidence, market insights, and grower feedback. Establish the framework for evaluating product efficacy to guide investment and prioritization decisions.

Platform & Execution: Lead product development from first field demonstration through launch and post-launch iteration, building repeatable playbooks that reduce development effort. Oversee product optimization, formulation, and manufacturing across crop protection categories, ensuring regulatory and quality compliance. Lead field research and claims substantiation, partnering with Regulatory and Quality on registrations and documentation.

Customer & Market Leadership: Engage regularly with growers, commercial partners, and CROs to understand on-farm workflows and identify competitive differentiation. Translate scientific findings into compelling product positioning and launch materials. Partner with the CEO and CBO on go-to-market strategy, and represent Robigo as a thought leader externally.

Cross-Functional & Organizational Leadership: Build and lead a high-performing team spanning product, field trials, data science, manufacturing, and regulatory. Translate grower needs into roadmap decisions and manage departmental budgets and innovation investments. Operate comfortably at the board level, turning product strategy and pipeline progress into a narrative executives can act on.

Ownership Mindset & Strong Collaborator: You build systems that help people and teams perform at their best, and partner effectively across executives and cross-functional teams.

Business Fluency: You can discuss field trial design, asset valuation, regulatory strategy, and competitive dynamics with senior leaders, and you contribute in rooms where the conversation is about business, not just product.

Comfort With Ambiguity: You are highly adaptable, fast-moving, and solution-oriented. You bring structured thinking to early-stage environments where the scope is unclear and the playbook doesn’t exist yet.

15+ years in agriculture biotechnology R&D,…