New Ventures Lead at Apollo Agriculture

About The Role

We are seeking an entrepreneurial, ambitious and highly motivated leader to explore new business opportunities at Apollo and make them a reality - from idea to execution and iteration. The New Ventures Lead will operate as the leader of the new business venture within Apollo and work closely with Apollo’s CEO and leadership team to bring it to life. Examples of potential new opportunities include:

Enabling Apollo customers to sell their crops at fair and transparent prices: So far, Apollo has focused on increasing farmers’ profitability from planting to harvest. There is an enormous opportunity to go beyond harvest and enable customers to access better markets to sell their crops. How can Apollo best enable customers to access fair and transparent markets for their products?

Enhancing the value of Apollo’s Agrodealer Network. Apollo works with a network of nearly 1,000 local, independent retailers who use Apollo’s mobile app and software to manage distribution of agricultural products to farmers. Apollo’s value proposition to retailers is already strong - we bring them many customers and these customers purchase more than they typically would due to Apollo financing. There is significant opportunity to further leverage the value of this network by building tools that serve the retailer’s entire business, from inventory management and wholesale input purchases to trade financing and beyond. How can Apollo deliver more value to our retailers and build a new business directly serving our retailers?

Success in this role will require a strong bias to action as well as world-class commercial judgment and leadership skills. This is a fantastic opportunity for candidates that have a background in launching and managing new products or have founded their own company in the past and are looking to take on significant levels of responsibility and leadership. Former founders are particularly encouraged to apply!

Key Responsibilities

• Do whatever it takes to successfully bring a new business to life, in close collaboration with Apollo’s CEO and leadership team. This will require you to:
• Work closely with Apollo’s senior leadership team to align on goals for the new business area
• Run experiments, build a team, sell to customers and do whatever it takes to define the new business area and bring it to life
• Work across the Apollo team to gather the information and insights needed for planning, decision making, and execution
• Report on performance, challenges, and insights and iteratively improve the business area over time
• Make clear recommendations and advocate for what the new investment needs to succeed, i.e. staff, technology investments, capital, additional expertise, etc.

You:

• Exhibit a strong bias to action
• Have exceptional commercial judgment
• Love to build new things and find creative ways to do more with less
• Are skilled at managing diverse stakeholders without direct management responsibility
• Are excited to take on high levels of leadership and responsibility
• Are able to rapidly assimilate new information and make sound, strategic judgements
• Love experimenting and validating your hypotheses through data
• Are strong at data analysis. Bonus: you write SQL and can quickly gather your own insights from data
• Are equally comfortable admitting when you are wrong as defending your opinion
• Are a clear communicator who can clearly express complex ideas both verbally and in writing
• Are a considerate listener who takes the time to deeply understand customers, teammates, and partners

We:

• Are a collaborative team of smart and ambitious people who are dedicated to serving our customers
• Make magic happen to solve hard problems and always come with solutions when challenges arise
• Are comfortable taking risks that can result in radical scale, and understand that failures are opportunities to learn and improve
• Are considerate listeners and take the time to deeply understand and seek out ideas from the people around us, even when we disagree
• Offer a dynamic environment that fosters talent, collaboration and growth
• Take pride in our work and share the responsibility to see it through from conception to deployment
• Back up our talk with a competitive compensation and benefits package including equity
• Value autonomy, honesty, transparency, and respect
• Are excited to hear from you!

Apollo Agriculture does not discriminate on the basis of race, age, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, gender, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression. Apollo Agriculture is an equal opportunity/equal access employer fully committed to achieving a diverse workforce.
Apollo Agriculture is committed to providing a safe and productive learning and living community. To achieve that goal, we may conduct background investigations for all final candidates being considered for employment. Background checks may include, but are not limited to, criminal history, national sex offender search and motor vehicle history.