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Data Intelligence Platform Product Lead at John Deere in Illinois
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Job Description
Data Intelligence Platform Product Lead
Location: Illinois,United States
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.
John Deere is an equal opportunity employer, including disabled & veterans.
Primary Location: 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.
Your Responsibilities
As a Data Intelligence Platform Product Lead for JD World Headquarters located in Moline, IL, you will 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.
What Skills You Need
- 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.
What Makes You Standout
- Experience in agriculture, construction, or another physical/outdoor-industry technology context.
- Familiarity with geospatial data standards and tooling (e.g., hexagonal spatial indexing systems, raster/vector pipelines).
- Experience supporting AI/agentic products that consume platform data via APIs or MCP-style interfaces.
- Background partnering with data science or remote-sensing engineering teams.
Education
Ideally you will have a degree or equivalent related work experience in the following:
- Master's Degree or Equivalent.
What You'll Get
At John Deere, you are empowered to create a career that will take you to where you want to go while working in an inclusive team environment. Here, you'll enjoy the freedom to explore new projects, the support to think outside the box and the advanced tools and technology that foster innovation and achievement. Additionally, we offer a comprehensive reward package to help you get started on your new career path, including:
- Flexible work arrangements
- Highly competitive base pay
- Savings & Retirement benefits (401K and Defined Contribution)
- Healthcare benefits with a generous company contribution in the Health Savings Account
- Adoption assistance
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Tuition assistance
- Fitness subsidies and on-site gyms at specific Deere locations
- Charitable contribution match
- Employee Purchase Plan & numerous discount programs for personal use
- Vacation and Holiday Pay
$138,144.00 - $207,216.00 + Benefits
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Must be 18 years of age or older to apply
The information contained herein is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and qualifications required of individuals performing the job. The qualifications detailed in this job description are not considered the minimum requirements necessary to perform the job, but rather as guidelines.
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