Sr. Program Manager, LaserWeeder

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Seattle, WA
Hybrid
150K-180K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Computer Vision • Hardware • Machine Learning • Robotics • Software • Agriculture
Mission Driven AgTech Company in Seattle building the first LaserWeeder - built in the USA!
The Role
The Senior Program Manager will lead and manage programs, ensuring effective communication and collaboration among teams to achieve company goals.
Summary Generated by Built In

The Carbon Robotics LaserWeeder™ leverages advanced robotics, computer vision, AI/deep learning, and lasers to eliminate weeds with sub-millimeter accuracy—all without herbicides. This innovative solution reduces environmental impact, promotes soil health, and helps farmers address labor shortages and rising costs. Designed in Seattle and built at our cutting-edge manufacturing facility in Richland, Washington, the LaserWeeder is setting a new standard for automated weed control. With $157 million in funding from prominent investors such as BOND, NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture arm), Anthos Capital, Fuse Venture Capital, Ignition Partners, Revolution, Sozo Ventures, and Voyager Capital, Carbon Robotics is driving innovation.

As a no-nonsense team with a bias for action, we take pride in executing our ideas. Whether it’s designing transformative technology or visiting farms to ensure our products are reliable and safe, we do whatever it takes to deliver for our customers. 

Working here means tackling big problems with big impact. You’ll find opportunities to grow professionally, solve complex challenges, and make meaningful contributions to a mission that matters. At Carbon Robotics, we trust our team to act independently and make practical, real-world decisions. 

Join us as we innovate, execute, and build the future of farming together.

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Carbon Robotics is seeking a Senior Program Manager, LaserWeeder to drive the planning and execution of programs by working with cross functional teams to identify requirements and implement solutions to meet and support company goals. 

You will be responsible for orienting the team and driving towards common goals. You will coordinate and execute delivery of programs and drive continuous improvement projects to enhance efficiency in lifecycle execution and evolve operational maturity. This role requires a high level of collaboration, coordination and meticulous project tracking, strong problem solving, solid technical judgment, program management domain knowledge, excellent communication skills and the ability to stay organized and focused in the face of ambiguity.

You will actively develop and evangelize best practices for ensuring delivery and continual improvement that is informed by tactical, operational and strategic measures. You must be a quick thinker with the ability to make key decisions with multiple simultaneous dimensions in mind. You must be comfortable and composed working in a technical environment resolving day-to-day problems with functional and technical subject matter experts. You lead with transparency and positive influence, with a bias to action and ability to drive to data-driven decisions that continuously moves the program forward. 

Carbon Robotics is a rapid prototype and innovation organization, so being spry and creative are absolute requirements - the ability to adapt and evolve proven program management methodologies with modern tools and processes will go a long way in ensuring success. 

Most of our more interesting components are electronics: ICs, MCUs, Power Supplies, LEDs, Cameras, etc., so experience or understanding of electronic components is highly desired. 

This role is located at Carbon’s headquarters in Seattle, WA and is an in office position. 

What you'll do:

  • Lead programs and teams through the project lifecycle to deliver to an agreed up parameters of scope, budget, schedule and quality, including negotiating changes to these parameters in response to internal/external events and the obligation to report and explain the resulting consequences.
  • Build cogent project plans, manage project schedules, identify, mitigate and manage risks.
  • Manage assessment & prioritization of requirements. Be able to design creative and right sized solutions while considering technical and business needs, requirements and trade-offs but stay firmly rooted in decisions based on data.
  • Orchestrate tasks and deliverables across the program lifecycle.
  • Own accurate, timely and transparent communication of progress, status, risks and change to execution teams and stakeholders up and across Carbon Robotics.
  • Use technology based solutions to deliver information and manage programs.
  • Manage budget, margins and spend analysis.
  • Identify, track and report success metrics.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities for Success:

  • Proven record of delivering technical and business driven programs
  • Experience in a rapidly scaling startup
  • At least 10 years of program management working with large scale industrial or agricultural equipment to support deadline driven work, tracking milestones and timelines, managing budgets, delegating, and directing work, and communicating to cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Cross functional experience: e.g. working with engineering, product management, support
  • Demonstrated success with oral and written communications and presentations, influence and persuasion, results orientation, facilitation, and teamwork skills.
  • Hyper-organized with a strong attention to detail, and capable of juggling all of the data associated with projects and task-tracking to meet tight deadlines.
  • Able to learn quickly, adapt to a dynamic, collaborative work environment.
  • Highly collaborative and ability to influence without authority; proven ability to develop productive working relationships with both technical and non-technical parties, proven ability to manage multiple stakeholder views, opinions and needs
  • Experience using industry standard program management tools.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent demonstrated work experience.
  • Up to 20% travel seasonally may be required.
  • Subject matter expertise within Agtech highly desired

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Carbon Robotics follows equitable hiring practices. Flexibility in our hiring process allows hiring of talent at levels different from what are posted.  The compensation range outlined is based on a target budgeted base salary. Individual base pay depends on various factors such as relevant experience and skill, Interview assessments and responsibility of role, job duties/requirements. Offers are determined using our equitable hiring practices. Carbon Robotics offers additional compensation in the form of benefits premiums, pre-IPO stock options and On Target Earning commissions for appropriate positions. Base pay ranges are reviewed each year. We are committed to the principle of pay equity – paying employees equitably for similar work.
Carbon Robotics' base salary pay range:
$150,000$180,000 USD

Why would you join Carbon Robotics?

Passion for building teams capable of solving uniquely interesting problems. Innovation while disrupting the market is what we do.  Profiled in WSJ and Forbes, Carbon Robotics is poised to become the next billion dollar company in the rapidly growing worldwide Ag-Tech industry.

We offer competitive compensation and benefits to our full time US based* employees, including:

  • Competitive salaries
  • Pre-IPO Stock Options
  • Generous Benefits:
    • Fully-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums for you and all dependents
      • Choice of PPO or HDHP/HSA
      • Virtual Care - Doctor on Demand
      • Employee Assistance Program
    • Mental Health HRA
    • Restricted Healthcare Travel support
    • Menopause Support
    • Life Insurance
    • Long Term Disability
    • Flexible PTO
    • 401(k) plan
    • Pet Insurance
    • Commuter Benefits
  • Work Culture: Be a part of an inclusive and tight-knit company culture that values innovation and mission-driven success.

*Internationally based employees benefits varies & Contractors are not eligible for Carbon Robotics Benefits or Stock

Carbon Robotics is building a culture of diversity and inclusion for all.  We welcome everyone’s voice and believe in open and transparent communication. We believe the best products, services, and companies are built by strong teams that include a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives, ideas, and experiences. We are committed to supporting and enabling growth and opportunity for every employee at every level. This is the foundation to which we will build a truly unique environment.

We are equally committed to equal employment opportunity, and it is foundational to how we recruit and hire our talented team. Employment is determined based upon capabilities and qualifications without discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, sex, gender identification and expression, marital status, military status or status as an honorably discharge/veteran, pregnancy (including potential pregnancy, pregnancy-related conditions, and childbearing), sexual orientation, age (40 and over), national origin, ancestry, citizenship or immigration status, physical, mental, or sensory disability , HIV/AIDS or hepatitis C status, genetic information, status as an actual or perceived victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, or any other protected class as established by law.

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The Company
HQ: Seattle, WA
208 Employees
Year Founded: 2018

What We Do

Carbon Robotics builds the industry-leading AI-powered LaserWeeder™ which combines computer vision, AI deep learning technology, robotics, and lasers to identify crops versus weeds - and shoots the weeds with lasers.

More than 100 of the world’s largest specialty crop growers have deployed LaserWeeders™ in North America, Europe, and Australia. This no-touch, precision technology is effective day and night in over 100 crops in both organic and conventional farming.

LaserWeeders™ are designed at Carbon Robotics headquarters in Seattle, Washington and manufactured in our state of the art new manufacturing facility in Richland, Washington. Carbon Robotics has raised $157 million in capital since 2018 from investors that include BOND, NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm), Anthos Capital, Fuse Venture Capital, Ignition Partners, Revolution, Sozo Ventures, and Voyager Capital.

What’s it like working at Carbon Robotics? We are a no-nonsense team of passionate people with a bias for action. We know that our ability to execute on our ideas is what sets us apart. We do what we say we are going to do, externally and internally. We trust our people to act independently and make practical, real-world decisions.

Why Work With Us

The Carbon Robotics LaserWeeder™ implement uses precision computer vision and sophisticated AI to kill weeds with millimeter accuracy. Laserweeding delivers consistency that puts growers back in control of their schedules amid labor shortages, chemical concerns, and rising costs. For high-density crops, laserweeding is the only automated solution.

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Carbon Robotics Offices

Hybrid Workspace

Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

We encourage flexibility with a mix of in office, field and remote options.

Typical time on-site: 3 days a week
HQSeattle, WA
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