Mitti Labs

GeoAI platform for AWD rice farming

Program Manager - Operations

Business OperationsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeRemote in IndiaNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

Experience in agricultural project management.
Strong, independent task-management ability and the ability to design and execute roadmaps.
Strong communication skills and composure when dealing with large-scale projects and teams.
A process-excellence mindset.
People-management ability, cultural sensitivity, and the ability to motivate rural teams.
Ability to anticipate issues and provide solutions.
Willingness to travel to fields daily.
Ability to engage with agrarian communities and understanding of farmers, farmer producer organizations, non-governmental organizations, and government departments.
Seven or more years of professional experience, ideally in agricultural project management, field extension management, or input distribution or sales.
Experience optimizing processes and building systems and strategies to support scale.
Experience managing large field teams of 100–300 people through partner organizations or direct teams.
Experience building high-performance cultures, coaching mid-level managers, and creating accountability systems.
Ability to create management information systems and monitor key performance indicators at scale.
Hands-on experience with project management tools such as Notion, Google Workspace, Excel, and Looker Studio.
Experience with multi-district or multi-state program rollouts.
Experience implementing quality assurance and quality control frameworks, audits, field validation checks, and standard operating procedure adherence.
Experience generating detailed stakeholder-specific reports and documentation that synthesize findings and learnings for diverse stakeholders.
Experience ensuring compliance with carbon methodologies, government schemes, donor requirements, or agricultural certification programs.
Native fluency in Kannada.

Responsibilities

Manage execution of carbon-process-related and input-sales-related tasks across project regions in Karnataka, ensuring implementation partners meet targets and execution proceeds smoothly.
Ensure partners complete tasks according to a predefined roadmap.
Streamline systems and processes to support execution.
Train, retrain, and support the field-agent force.
Hold field agents and partners accountable and help them solve problems.
Maintain strong relationships with implementation partner teams at managerial and execution levels.
Develop solutions with implementation partners based on identified problems.
Build and update standard operating procedures and systems to support performance.
Collaborate with local stakeholders, including agricultural universities, government bodies, non-governmental organizations, farmer producer organizations, and agriculture departments.
Conduct daily standups with operations execution, quality assurance and quality control, and implementation partner teams at managerial and operational levels.
Build a network of logistics providers and local resources to support program tasks.
Coordinate with internal carbon-process compliance, product, and research and development teams to support implementation and communicate improvements.
Coordinate execution of the input distribution business with the inputs business head and inputs logistics team.
Analyze performance in carbon processes and input distribution daily or weekly, and provide insights to operations execution, product, and leadership teams.
Support science operations, research and development operations, and agronomic demonstrations.
Lead the program and manage state-level teams, project coordinators, and field agents to ensure on-ground execution.
Build and maintain detailed task sheets and roadmaps to ensure projects meet timeline and execution requirements.
Drive farmer engagement through training, awareness campaigns, and demonstration plots.
Oversee procurement, logistics, and distribution of climate-smart agricultural inputs.
Ensure field agents are trained and follow standard operating procedures, making prompt corrections when deviations occur.
Maintain, update, and improve repositories of standard operating procedures, training manuals, and processes.
Create marketing materials with on-ground teams to represent progress and successes using field data.
Create input-market materials for field agents, including product pitches, sales guidance, standard operating procedures, and video walkthroughs.

Desired Qualifications

Experience in paddy farming.
A strong educational background, preferably in agribusiness management, field extension management, or operations or supply chain strategy.

Program Manager - Operations, Karnataka

Mitti Labs · India (Remote) · — · Posted 2025-12-24

Workplace: remote

Description

About Mitti Labs

Mitti Labs is a climate-tech startup dedicated to transforming the rice industry by supporting smallholder farmers in adopting sustainable practices. Our mission is to bring AI and satellite technology into traditional rice farming, reducing methane emissions while improving farmer livelihoods.

Backed by NASA-supported science and a strong ecosystem of partners, we work with global corporations to help them achieve their net-zero goals through verified, high-quality carbon credits. Our initiatives include building the world's most advanced dMRV for rice, launching a 40,000 farmers project in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh and reducing air pollution from stubble burning in Punjab. We have built partnerships with the likes of Syngenta Foundation, Dr Reddy's Foundation, The Nature Conservancy and Ebro Foods.

Our customers - including Fortune 500 companies and leading agri-businesses - trust Mitti Labs to deliver measurable impact across climate, food systems, and sustainability. We are a team of 40+ data scientists, agronomists, engineers, and operators.

Role Description

As part of its 2026 operations ramp-up, Mitti Labs is entering Karnataka. We need a strong state lead or project lead to manage the execution of carbon process-related and input sales related tasks in our project regions across the State.

Through our implementation partner, we will have a field force of around 100. You will be responsible in ensuring partners meet their targets and execution happens seamlessly.

Some of your objectives will include:

Ensuring partners are meeting their tasks as per a pre-defined roadmap
Continually streamlining systems and processes to ensure execution
Continually training, re-training, and supporting the field agent force
Holding field agents and partners accountable, and helping them problem solve and find solutions?

We are seeking a driven task master, who has the ability to rally internal and external teams and the strong interpersonal and communication skills needed to meet these objectives.

Key Responsibilities

1. External Partner Operations Management

Maintain strong relationship with implementation partners teams, at managerial and execution level
Strategise solutions with implementation partners basis problems
Continually build and update SOPs and systems to ensure performance
Collaborate with local stakeholders involved in the program, including agri universities, government bodies, NGOs, KVKs, Agriculture Departments etc.
Daily standups with Ops Execution team, QA/QC team, and implementation partner’s teams (at managerial and operational levels)
Ability to create network of logistics providers and local resources to support tasks

2. Internal Communications

Work with internal teams on carbon processes compliance, product, R&D to ensure smooth implementation and communication of improvements
Work on smooth execution of inputs distribution business in collaboration with inputs business head, and with support from inputs logistics team
Daily/weekly analytics on performance on carbon processes, input distribution, and offer insights to Ops Execution, Product and leadership
Offer support on Science Ops, R&D ops, agronomic demos, etc.

3. Operational Execution and Leadership

Take initiative as a leader of the program, manage state level teams, project coordinators and field agents to ensure on-ground execution
Building and maintaining granular task sheets and roadmaps, to ensure timeline and execution of projects are meeting requirements
Drive farmer engagement programs through trainings, awareness campaigns and demonstration plots
Oversee procurement, logistics and distribution of climate smart agri inputs to ensure availability and accessibility
Ensure field agents are trained, and operating as per SOP, make quick corrections when deviations are observed
Maintaining, updating and improving document repository of SOPs, Training Manuals, Processes
Build marketing material in coordination with on-ground teams to represent progress/success/wins basis data collected from fields
Create input market material for field agents, how to pitch to farmer, how to sell product, with SOPs + Video walkthroughs

Requirements

Your skills, mindset and demeanor should align with the following requirements:

Passionate about climate, agriculture, sustainability, scientific innovation and impact
Strong and independent task master, ability to design and execute on roadmaps
Experience in Agri Project Management
Strong communication skills and composure when dealing with large scale projects and large teams
Process excellence mindset
People management. High cultural sensitivity and ability to motivate rural teams.
Ability to pre-empt issues and offer solutions to fire-fight
Willingness to travel to fields on daily basis
Ability to understand and engage with agrarian communities, understanding of farmers, FPOs, NGOs, Government Departments, etc...

Experience:

Strong professional experience (7+ years) - ideally in agri-project management, field extension management, input distribution/sales
Category experience in Paddy farming is strongly preferred
Proven experience in optimizing processes and building systems and strategies to support scale
Strong educational background, preferably in Agribusiness management, Field Extension management, operations / supply chain strategy type roles
Experience managing large field teams (100–300 people) through partner organizations or direct teams.
Demonstrated capability in building high-performance cultures, coaching mid-level managers, and creating accountability systems.
Strong ability to create MIS, and monitor KPIs at scale.
Hands-on experience using project management tools (Notion, Google Workspace, Excel, Looker Studio, etc.).
Experience in multi-district or multi-state program rollouts.
Prior experience implementing QA/QC frameworks, audits, field validation checks, and adherence to SOP.
Experience in generating detailed stakeholder-specific reports and documentation to synthesize findings and learnings to diverse stakeholders.
Experience ensuring compliance with carbon methodologies, government schemes, donor requirements, or agri certification programs.
Native fluency in Kannada is a must

Benefits

Purpose driven work - tackling the worlds most pressing challenges - climate change, food security, water security, farmer livelihoods improvement.

Culture / Team / Environment - our team includes the best minds in science, product, business and operations, in an environment where collaboration and openness is highly valued, unbiased, objective decision making, direct relationship with founders, and encouragement of career growth in a rapidly scaling organization.

Exposure to multiple stakeholders - internal and external, ability to operate at the center of the organization.

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About the Company

Mitti Labs

GeoAI platform for AWD rice farming

Mitti Labs uses satellite data and AI to help smallholder rice farmers save water and cut greenhouse gases. Its GeoAI platform combines high-resolution SAR satellite imagery with field ground-truth data and physical models to build plot-level digital twins of rice fields, delivering insights on crop health, soil moisture, and flooding. These insights enable Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) irrigation, which can reduce water use by about 40% and methane emissions by over 50% while maintaining yields. Mitti Labs operates the largest AWD rice program globally and partners with organizations like Cool Effect, Ebro Foods, and Syngenta. The company differentiates itself by integrating NASA-supported satellite data, digital-twin modeling, and on-the-ground verification to scale measurable AWD adoption. Its goal is to expand AWD implementation across India and to launch projects in the Philippines and Indonesia, delivering verified outcomes and income for farmers.

Company size: 51-200
Company stage: Series A
Total funding: $12.5M
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Founded: 2023

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