Global Precision Phenotyping Lead (Iowa)

Come join our team in the position of Global Precision Phenotyping Lead– Breeding & Trait Development!

Corteva Agriscience is a global leader in genetics, seed technologies and digital agriculture. Our Breeding & Trait Development organization advances high-performing germplasm and native traits that help farmers meet tomorrow’s challenges. We are seeking a highly driven leader who will empower our global teams with cutting‑edge end‑to‑end phenotyping solutions.

The incumbent leads and defines Seed Product Development strategy for applying advanced phenotyping to maximize plant breeding value, translating scientific and technological capabilities into clear, prioritized actions that accelerate product development. This senior role focuses on delivering the greatest impact phenotyping solutions by supervising and partnering with teams that discover, validate and deploy novel phenotyping approaches.

This position sets the strategic direction for end‑to‑end phenotyping systems, from data acquisition through modeling and insight generation, ensuring outputs are scientifically robust, scalable, and directly tied to business value. Rather than directly executing all components, this role orchestrates delivery with 3rd parties, business partners and a team of technical innovation developers, ensuring concepts are translated into practical, field‑ready solutions.

The role drives alignment of phenotyping priorities across the seed product development organization, balancing long‑term innovation with near‑term needs. It prioritizes investments and initiatives based on expected impact, ensuring resources are focused on the highest‑value opportunities. The incumbent guides experimental strategies to optimize data quality, relevance, and usability at scale, with a clear line of sight to the needs of the stakeholders.

In addition, the position leads the evaluation and integration of emerging technologies within a strategic framework, ensuring innovation efforts are targeted, actionable, and compatible with operational realities. It serves as a key translator between technical development teams and business stakeholders, converting complex outputs into decision‑ready guidance and actionable deployment plans.

Above all this role acts as a strategic R&D leader and integrator, ensuring the right value‑rich phenotyping capabilities are not only developed, but effectively applied, connecting technical innovation to measurable breeding value by advancing and driving data informed decisions.

The incumbent should be highly driven and self‑motivated; passionate about unlocking unrealized value, deliverables focused, and rich in collaboration and partnership

• Ph.D. in Plant Breeding, Quantitative Genetics, Plant Science, Agronomy, Agricultural/Biosystems Engineering, Data Science, or a closely related field; OR M.S. in a related field with equivalent depth of applied experience.
• 10+ years of progressive R&D experience in plant breeding, phenotyping, or applied agricultural science, including 5+ years in a strategic and/or people‑leadership capacity.
• Demonstrated track record of translating scientific and technological capabilities into deployed, value‑generating solutions.

• Deep expertise in plant phenotyping across the full pipeline — from data acquisition through platform development, trait deployment, modeling, analytics, and insight generation.
• Strong working knowledge of plant breeding principles and a clear understanding of how phenotypic data drives breeding value and product advancement.
• Proven ability to design experimental strategies that optimize data quality, relevance, and usability at scale.
• Demonstrated capability to evaluate, validate, and integrate emerging technologies within real‑world operational constraints.

• Proven experience defining and executing R&D strategy, including prioritizing investments and initiatives based on expected business impact.
• Demonstrated success leading and developing technical teams, and orchestrating delivery through teams, business partners, and third parties (rather than…