Product Development Lead

Product Development Lead - Modular Farming System

Location: India (on-site, hands-on)

Type: Full-time

Experience: 3-5 years (hardware / systems preferred)

What You'll Actually Do

This is not a PM role. You will own thephysical farming module end-to-end. Design, cost, reliability, and scalability.

You will:

• Design and iterate modular vertical farming systems (racks, plumbing, lighting, pumps, sensors)
• Build fast prototypes and test them in real operating environments
• Own BOM cost targets and continuously reduce system cost without compromising reliability
• Work closely with growers to translate crop requirements into hardware constraints
• Select, manage, and push local vendors and fabricators
• Define installation, maintenance, and failure-handling SOPs
• Sayno to unnecessary complexity, over-engineering, and cool but useless features

If something fails at a customer site, you are accountable, not in a meeting, but on the ground.

What success looks like ( first 6 months )

• A standardized v1/v2 farm module that runs 24/7 with minimal intervention
• BOM cost and failure points reduced meaningfully from the first prototype
• Installation and maintenance simple enough for ops teams to execute repeatedly
• Clear system constraints that sales and ops cannot break

Who this role is for

Youre likely a good fit if you have:

• 3 - 5 years buildingreal-world hardware systems (industrial equipment, automation, HVAC, EV hardware, water systems, medical devices, cold chain, robotics, etc.)
• Experience taking products from prototype field deployment
• Strong understanding of electrical, mechanical, and fluid systems
• Hands-on experience working with Indian vendors and fabrication ecosystems
• Obsession with cost, reliability, and simplification

You enjoy shipping imperfect systems, learning fast, and making them better.

Who this role is NOT for

Pleasedo not apply if:

• Youre a pure software engineer or data scientist
• Youve only worked on simulations, research, or academic projects
• Youre looking for a strategy or innovation role
• You need perfect specs before building anything
• You want to manage people instead of systems (at least initially)

What we care about ( more than resumes )

• Youve debugged failures in the field
• Youve shipped something imperfect that actually worked
• You think in systems, not features
• You can argue your point and still change your mind when data says so
• You care about unit economics, not just elegance

What We Offer

• Full ownership of a core product that will be deployed in the real world
• Direct access to the founder and decision-making authority
• Competitive compensation + meaningful equity
• The chance to define how urban farming systems are built for India

How to apply

Please share:

• Your resume or LinkedIn profile
• 1-2 short examples of hardware systems youve personally built, shipped, or supported in the field
• A brief note onwhat you enjoy building andwhat you avoid building

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