Industry Solution Leader - Food & Agriculture (Agriculture Production)

Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States. Travel to customer locations may be required. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future company sponsorship.

Salary: $130,000–$167,000 USD annual base pay.

Company

hirify.global is an enterprise AI application software company providing an AI platform and industry-specific SaaS applications.

What you will do

• Own solution strategy, technical direction, delivery outcomes, and production deployment for customer engagements.
• Lead customer discovery across agricultural production, supply chain planning, manufacturing, procurement, logistics, pricing, and operations.
• Translate business challenges into AI, machine learning, optimization, and software solutions with defined constraints and success criteria.
• Lead solution architecture, requirements gathering, configuration, validation, user adoption, and scale-out.
• Manage cross-functional teams of forward-deployed engineers, data scientists, product managers, engineers, and industry experts.
• Partner with product, engineering, and sales teams to develop reusable solutions, deployment plans, statements of work, and customer demonstrations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, operations research, supply chain management, computer science, mathematics, economics, or a related quantitative discipline.
• 7+ years of experience in supply chain, manufacturing, operations, planning, logistics, procurement, pricing, operations research, or technically focused consulting.
• Hands-on agricultural production or ag supply-chain experience, including grower or harvest planning, feed or raw-material optimization, commodity inputs, perishability, allocation, yield, cost, inventory, or supply availability.
• Strong knowledge of supply chain planning, production constraints, inventory policies, network flows, enterprise data, and optimization tradeoffs.
• Experience leading complex customer-facing technical engagements and collaborating with operational, technical, commercial, and executive stakeholders.
• Authorization to work in the United States without current or future company sponsorship is required.

Nice to have

• Experience delivering AI, machine learning, operations research, mathematical optimization, advanced analytics, or supply chain digital transformation solutions.
• Hands-on experience with SQL, Python, analytics, optimization tools, application configuration, or scripting.
• Experience with SAP, Oracle, Kinaxis, Blue Yonder, o9, or similar supply chain platforms.
• Experience scaling solutions across plants, product families, regions, networks, or business units.
• Advanced degree in engineering, operations research, supply chain, analytics, or a related quantitative field.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with a competitive compensation package.
• Excellent benefits and a generous equity plan.
• Equal opportunity and affirmative action employment environment.