Corteva Agriscience

Operations Lead - Software Engineering

Corteva Agriscience$90K — $120K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years in operational leadership or a related field.
  • Strong experience in financial planning, budgeting, and cost analysis.
  • Proficient in data performance management and metric definition.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage various audiences.
  • Proven cross-functional collaboration skills, particularly with engineering and finance.

Responsibilities

  • Drive organizational clarity through effective communication strategies.
  • Establish and lead operational rhythms and governance structures.
  • Lead financial coordination for budgeting and planning processes.
  • Define and operationalize metrics for engineering performance.
  • Deliver insights through comprehensive data reporting and analysis.
  • Enable execution by creating operational tools and frameworks.
  • Support cross-functional enterprise data needs and requests.

Benefits

  • Numerous development opportunities to enhance skills.
  • Contribute to a higher purpose organization making a positive impact.
  • Immediate health benefits for employees and their families.
  • Four weeks of paid time off and two weeks of well-being pay.
  • Generous parental leave policy with at least 16 weeks for both parents.
  • Competitive retirement savings plan with tuition reimbursement options.
  • Additional rewards and growth packages offered.
Full Job Description

What You’ll Do:

  • Drive organizational clarity through communications and alignment - develop and deliver leadership and employee communications that clarify priorities, expectations, and progress. Partner with leaders to shape messaging and ensure consistency across audiences. Coordinate communication strategies and ensure timely, aligned information flow across teams.

  • Establish and run the operating rhythm - design and lead recurring operational cadences, including leadership forums, monthly operations reviews, and cross-functional touchpoints. Ensure meetings are structured, outcomes-driven, and aligned with broader organizational priorities. Support enterprise workshops and cross-team planning efforts.

  • Lead financial coordination and planning support - partner with finance and business leaders to contribute to budgeting, forecasting, and planning processes. Track and synthesize cost inputs, provide ad hoc analysis to support decision making, and help ensure spend aligns to priorities. Review and guide program-related financial materials and approvals.

  • Define and operationalize engineering performance metrics - establish a measurement framework across Software Engineering, including delivery effectiveness, productivity, quality, and organizational health. Drive adoption of core engineering metrics (flow, throughput, cycle time, reliability, engagement) and embed them into leadership discussions and daily operations.

  • Deliver insights through reporting and analysis - synthesize survey data, operational metrics, and performance indicators into clear insights for leadership. Highlight trends, risks, and opportunities to inform decisions and continuous improvement.

  • Enable execution through tools and coordination - build and maintain operational artifacts such as trackers, intake processes, and estimation models. Create dashboards and reporting frameworks that provide visibility into execution and performance. Drive cross-functional coordination by connecting teams, resolving dependencies, and maintaining momentum.

  • Support enterprise data needs and cross-functional requests - serve as a key point of contact for enterprise requests requiring Software Engineering inputs. Coordinate data collection, validation, and delivery across stakeholders to ensure accurate and timely responses.

What Skills You Need:

A blend of operational leadership, analytical rigor, and cross-functional influence. Strong candidates demonstrate capability across all areas; exceptional candidates deeply excel in multiple.

  • Operational Leadership & Governance - proven ability to establish and run operating cadences, governance structures, and decision-making frameworks that enable execution at scale.

  • Data & Performance Management - experience defining metrics, building dashboards, and translating data into actionable insights. Strong understanding of engineering performance indicators and organizational health metrics.

  • Financial & Business Acumen - comfort working with financial planning, budgeting, and cost tracking. Ability to connect operational decisions to financial outcomes and business priorities.

  • Communication & Influence - exceptional ability to communicate clearly with both executive leadership and broad employee audiences. Skilled at shaping messaging and driving alignment across diverse stakeholders.

  • Cross-Functional Leadership - strong collaboration skills with the ability to coordinate across engineering, product, finance, and enterprise teams. Adept at navigating ambiguity and aligning competing priorities.

Benefits – How We’ll Support You:

  • Numerous development opportunities offered to build your skills.

  • Be part of a company with a higher purpose and contribute to making the world a better place.

  • Health benefits for you and your family on your first day of employment.

  • Four weeks of paid time off and two weeks of well-being pay per year, plus paid holidays.

  • Excellent parental leave which includes a minimum of 16 weeks for mother and father.

  • Future planning with our competitive retirement savings plan and tuition reimbursement program.

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Are you a good match? Apply today! We seek applicants from all backgrounds to ensure we get the best, most creative talent on our team.

About Corteva Agriscience

Corteva Agriscience brings you the world's most recognized and premium agricultural solutions, featuring Pioneer® and Brevant™ Seeds, award-winning Crop Protection products, Encirca, and Granular software tools and services. they provide agronomic support and services to help increase farmer productivity and profitability. they strive to develop sustainable and efficient global food systems that benefit everyone.

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Learn more about Corteva Agriscience
Size
21,000 employees
Market Cap
$42.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$681 million
5 Year Trend
+2.4%
Revenue
$14.2 billion
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