Data Intelligence Platform Product Lead

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There are over 7 billion people on this planet. And by 2050, there will be 2 billion more... many moving into urban centers at an unprecedented rate. Making sure there is enough food, fiber and infrastructure for our rapidly growing world is what we're all about at John Deere. And it's why we're investing in our people and our technology like never before!

Here the world's brightest minds are tackling the world's biggest challenges. If you believe one person can make the world a better place, we'll put you to work. RIGHT NOW.

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United States (US)- Illinois
- Function: Product and Process Mgmt (CA)
Title: Data Intelligence Platform Product Lead-125264
Onsite/Remote: Remote Position

This position is eligible for remote work at the present time. The arrangement may be delayed for training or other job acclimation purposes and remains subject to change.

As a Data Intelligence Platform Product Lead
for
JD World Headquarters
located in Moline, IL , youwill be:

• Own the product roadmap for a geospatial data platform that ingests satellite, aerial, and drone imagery, 3D terrain, hydrology, soils, and weather data, and fuses it with proprietary machine-generated ground truth.
• Evaluate and manage a portfolio of commercial and government imagery/data vendors — running competitive bake-offs, and continuously improving the cost/quality tradeoff as the remote-sensing and sensor market evolves (e.g., new spectral bands, radar, hyperspectral, space-borne LiDAR).
• Lead migration of teams currently running their own bespoke pipelines onto the shared platform — balancing platform reliability guarantees with the pace of onboarding new consumers.
• Partner with engineering, data science, and remote-sensing specialists to translate platform capabilities into services that both internal builders and downstream product teams can consume with production-grade reliability.
• Manage dependencies with adjacent data platforms (e.g., a machine-data/records platform and a farm-record/analytics service) whose roadmaps depend on this platform's outputs, and vice versa.
• Define and track platform adoption, reliability, and cost metrics; represent the platform in cross-functional planning with the product teams it powers.
• Develop the long-term vision for the platform as a shared utility used in both experimentation/R&D contexts and live production products.

VISA Sponsorship is NOT Available for this position.

• Significant product management experience, including platform or infrastructure product management (not only feature/app-level PM experience).
• Demonstrated experience managing external data or technology vendor relationships, including contract negotiation and vendor performance management.
• Working fluency in geospatial or remote-sensing concepts (satellite/aerial imagery, terrain models, weather data integration) sufficient to make roadmap and vendor tradeoff decisions — deep technical specialization is not required, but credibility with technical specialists is.
• Track record of driving migration/consolidation of fragmented internal systems onto a shared platform, including stakeholder alignment and change management.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills — this role sits at the intersection of multiple dependent teams and must manage roadmap interlocks without direct authority over those teams.
• Experience defining and operating against platform reliability/SLA-style commitments rather than one-off project delivery.

• Experience in…