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Principal Product Manager

Bayer


Job Location:

Chicago, IL - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 120000 - 180000
Posted: 4 September 2026 (20 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 2 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

At Bayer were visionaries driven to solve the worlds toughest challenges and striving for a world where Health for all Hunger for none is no longer a dream but a real possibility. Were doing it with energy curiosity and sheer dedication always learning from unique perspectives of those around us expanding our thinking growing our capabilities and redefining impossible. There are so many reasons to join us. If youre hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference theres only one choice.

Principal Product Manager

As Bayer Crop Sciences digital farming arm we advance regenerative agriculture and technology breakthroughs using the latest agronomic science data science engineering and real-world farming experience. With groundbreaking technologies likeFieldViewour team is a part of some of the most important advancements in ag.

As a Principal Product Manager you will beresponsible forbringing Bayer Digital FarmingsFieldViewproduct vision to fruition acrossdeliverylifecycle of our digital product. Your impact will range from conducting discovery on key business outcomes to breaking down work into globally scalable capabilities that solve ouruserspain points while satisfying the needs of our business.

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary responsibilities of this role are:

Cross-Functional Team Leadership & Collaboration

  • Build and manage trusted stakeholder relationships across global and regional business units

  • Lead cross-functional collaboration across user experience engineering and science disciplines to deliver aligned solutions

  • Coach and mentor product managers in key product skillsets

Product Strategy & Discovery

  • Conduct evidence guided discovery in partnership with UX to define user needs and define problems are worth solving

  • Translate market customer competitive insights into clear roadmap priorities and outcome-oriented plans

  • Ensure product investments & decisions drive measurable business and customer impact

  • Leverage design thinking techniques to build andvalidateconcepts

Product Execution & Delivery

  • Facilitate delivery team members through ambiguity to develop a shared understanding of the business context & user need

  • Craft durable scalable global product capabilities that solve problems in a way that is technicallyfeasible user desirable and businessviable

  • Drive effective product delivery through clear backlog prioritization and requirements decomposition (story mapping & writing)

  • Shepherd delivery through a strong knowledge of agile principles and practices ensuring we release software that our customers will love and works for the business

WHO YOU ARE

Bayer seeks an incumbent whopossessesthe following:

Required:

  • Bachelors orMasters Degreein Product Management BusinessScienceor any product development related field.

  • 12 years of product management or related rolesin digital agriculture

  • Experience in agile software development with a strong knowledge of agile principles and practices

  • Proven record of successfully launching digital products globally that contribute positively tobusiness and customer outcomes

  • Proven record driving product customer validation

  • Comfortable withambiguity and thriving on solving complexity

  • Entrepreneurial mindset

  • Proven record of leadership throughinfluence

  • Genuine curiosity and high ability tolearn

  • Building value for both business and customers with a win-win attitude

  • Strong knowledge of integrating AI tools into product workflows and digital product capabilities

Employees can expect to be paid a salary of approximately $120k-180k. Additional compensation may include a bonus or incentive program (if relevant).Additionalbenefits include health care vision dental retirement PTO sick leaveetc.. This salary (or salary range) is merely an estimate and may vary based on an applicants location market data/ranges an applicants skills andpriorrelevant experience certain degrees and certifications and other relevant factors.

This posting will be available for application until at least 7/7/26.

YOUR APPLICATION

Bayer offers a wide variety of competitive compensation and benefits programs. If you meet the requirements of this unique opportunity and want to impact our mission Health for all Hunger for none we encourage you to apply now. Be part of something bigger. Be you. Be Bayer.
To all recruitment agencies: Bayer does not accept unsolicited third party resumes.

Bayer is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans

Bayer is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodations in its application process for individuals with disabilities and encourages applicants with disabilities to request any needed accommodation(s) using the contact information below.

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Location:United States : Illinois : Chicago
United States : Missouri : Creve Coeur
United States : Washington : Residence Based
United States : Washington : Seattle
Division:Crop Science
Reference Code:873904
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About Company

We address some of the world's most pressing global challenges and continue to develop new solutions. The population is constantly growing and its age is increasing. That is why it needs better medicines and high-quality food in sufficient quantities. Learn more about it here.

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