Digital Product Owner

Syngenta Group•Charlotte, NC

3h•$114,000 - $163,000•Remote

About The Position

At Syngenta, our goal is to build the most collaborative and trustworthy team in agriculture, providing top-quality seeds and innovative crop protection solutions that improve farmers' success. To support this mission, Syngenta’s Operations & Trialing team is seeking a Digital Product Owner. This role will be responsible for defining, delivering, and continuously enhancing digital products that support enterprise strategy development, portfolio management, and operational planning. The Digital Product Owner acts as the primary interface between business planning stakeholders and technical delivery teams, ensuring that digital solutions enable data-driven decision-making, scenario planning, resource optimization, and execution alignment. A key focus of this role is the design and delivery of operational planning tools and capabilities that enable the organization to translate strategy into executable plans. This encompasses supporting resource allocation, capacity planning, execution tracking, and operational decision-making across global and regional teams. The Product Owner owns the product roadmap and backlog for planning-focused digital capabilities, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities, planning cycles, and measurable business outcomes.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Agriculture, Business, Finance, Life Sciences, or a related field.
Minimum of 5+ years of experience in Digital Product Ownership, Product Management, or a related leadership role within a complex, data-driven enterprise environment.
Proven experience delivering digital products that support: Strategic planning, Portfolio management, Operational planning and execution.
Strong understanding of: Portfolio and program management, Operational planning processes (capacity, resource, execution planning), Data-driven decision-support systems.
Experience working in Agile delivery frameworks (Scrum, SAFe, LeSS, etc.).
Experience in agricultural, scientific, R&D, or similarly complex technical domains is required.
Candidates must demonstrate the ability to operate effectively within highly specialized, data-intensive environments and engage credibly with scientific and planning stakeholders.
Candidates must reside in and be permanently authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship. This comprises, but is not limited to, OPT, CPT, and H-1B visa holders.

Responsibilities

Own and evolve the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for digital solutions supporting enterprise strategy, portfolio management, and operational planning.
Lead the design and delivery of operational planning tools, featuring resource/capacity planning, execution frameworks, workflow orchestration, and scenario modeling.
Translate strategic objectives into clear epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria; prioritize the backlog based on business value and planning impact.
Serve as the strategic interface between planning stakeholders (Strategy, Operations, Finance, Analytics) and technical delivery teams, driving alignment on priorities and adoption.
Deliver integrated planning capabilities, encompassing scenario simulation, portfolio prioritization, plan-vs.-actual tracking, and dynamic re-planning across global teams.
Lead Agile product execution at scale, covering backlog refinement, sprint/PI planning, cross-team dependency management, and acceptance of delivered features.
Champion data-driven decision-making by enabling resource visibility, forecasting improvements, KPI monitoring, and alignment with enterprise data governance standards.