--- title: 'Product Manager - AI-Native Business Systems at Ohalo' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/product-manager-ai-native-business-systems-ohalo-south-san-francisco-zyfvp2sjy3dv' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # Product Manager - AI-Native Business Systems at Ohalo - **Company:** Ohalo - **Location:** South San Francisco, CA - **Posted:** 2026-08-07 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/ohalogenetics/jobs/4722244005 ## Job description Position: Product Manager - AI-Native Business Systems Location: South San Francisco Time Type: Full Time The Opportunity: Ohalo is moving beyond R&D into a phase of massive operational scale. As our breakthrough "Boosted Breeding™" technology rewrites what is biologically possible in the field, our entire enterprise operation from Commercial Ops and Agentic workflows to backoffice G&A must scale with the exact same ambition. We are seeking a Product Manager to bridge our core Infrastructure & AI Native Business Systems efforts with company-wide operational execution. This is not a siloed RevOps or traditional Business Intelligence role. Your mandate is company-wide. Partnering across our infrastructure and platform teams, you will expand Ohalo’s core operational capabilities with AI including harnessing agent frameworks, MCP tooling, maintaining skills, etc and ensure best practices are accessible across every department. You will turn foundational AI capabilities into pragmatic, high-impact operational systems, ensuring the whole company runs on a trusted, unified digital layer rather than a patchwork of vibe coded applications. This is a role for a hands-on operator who understands systems and can prototype solutions directly to prove value before hardening into new platform capabilities. Responsibilities: - Scale Company-Wide AI Deployment: Partner across engineering teams to extend core AI capabilities across the entire business. Drive company-wide adoption of agent infrastructure. - Manage MCP & Tooling Access: Define and govern Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations and agent skills. Ensure native agents (spanning leadership team to commercial ops and backoffice G&A) have secure, reliable access to internal tools and systems of record. - Improve Evals & Quality Standards: Stand up evaluation frameworks for operations and establish consistent feedback loops. Monitor AI agent performance, latency, accuracy, and cost-to-serve, continuously refining skills and prompts to ensure high-fidelity outputs. - Architect Enterprise Reporting & Ground Truth: Serve as the company’s absolute metric authority. Define, standardize, and govern KPIs across Commercial, Ops, People, and G&A so leadership makes decisions based on a single source of truth calculated at the system level. - Automate Operational Friction: Identify repetitive manual reporting and execution workflows company-wide. Deploy AI-native automations and measure real ROI, operational efficiency gains, and time saved. - Own Technical Delivery & Prototyping: Maintain an extreme ownership mindset. Personally prototype v1 workflows and reporting to validate proof-of-concepts before scaling across platform engineering. - Prevent Tool & System Sprawl: Enforce strong platform governance so new agent tools and dashboards plug seamlessly into Ohalo’s core architecture rather than spawning fragmented UI layers or data silos. Requirements / Candidate Profile: - Technical & Analytical Foundation: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Analytics, or a related quantitative field preferred. Highly fluent in SQL/Python and comfortable interfacing with modern API/data architecture. - Proven Track Record: 5+ years of product management experience building internal platforms, business systems, or operational tooling with company-wide scope. - AI Infrastructure & Agent Literacy: Deep understanding of modern AI technology concepts including LLM evaluation frameworks (evals), model context protocols (MCPs), and agent orchestration/harnessing. - Hands-On Builder Spirit: Actively uses AI tooling, agentic coding harnesses, or vibe coding platforms in daily prototyping and workflow design. You don't just write specs; you build scrappy prototypes. - Systems Unification Experience: Demonstrated history of taking manual, Excel-based, or multi-department fragmented processes and turning them into scalable automated systems. - Influence Without Authority: Exceptional communicator who earns cross-functional trust with Commercial, Operations, G&A, and Engineering through effective collaboration and shipping useful tools. Nice to Have / Bonus Points: - Direct experience partnering with AI Ops, MLOps, or Core Infrastructure teams to productize AI tools internally. - Experience in a "Business Systems," "BizOps," or "ProductOps" function at a high-growth startup. - Experience with graph databases or complex data warehouse integrations. - Background in a data-rich, operationally intensive vertical (robotics, life sciences, or advanced manufacturing). The anticipated pay range for this role is $140,000 - $190,000 per year for our South San Francisco location.  The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, budget availability, internal equity, geographic location and external market pay for comparable jobs. About Ohalo: Ohalo® is sowing the seeds of tomorrow. Founded in 2019, Ohalo develops novel breeding systems and improved plant varieties that help farmers grow more food with fewer natural resources, increasing the yield, resiliency, and genetic diversity of crops to sustainably feed our population. Ohalo's breakthrough technology, Boosted Breeding™, will usher in a new era of improved productivity to radically transform global agriculture. For more information, visit [www.ohalo.com](https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=4172870-1&h=3148035140&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ohalo.com%2F&a=www.ohalo.com). Notes: If you previously applied for a job at Ohalo Genetics, we encourage you to restate your interest in the position by submitting your application. No visa sponsorship is available for this position at this time. This organization participates in E-Verify. Posters linked [here.](https://www.e-verify.gov/sites/default/files/everify/posters/IER_RightToWorkPoster%20Eng_Es.pdf) No recruiters, please. ## About Ohalo ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Ohalo develops novel plant breeding systems, primarily its Boosted Breeding™ technology, to dramatically increase crop yields, resilience, and genetic diversity while reducing resource use for global agriculture. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B) - **Headquarters**: South San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2019 - **Founders**: David Friedberg (CEO), Jud Ward (Chief Technology Officer) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Agricultural Biotechnology, Plant Breeding, AgTech - **Target customers**: B2B — global seed companies, commercial growers, and agricultural supply chain partners (e.g., strawberry, potato, almond, corn, and berry producers). - **Mission or purpose statement**: "Accelerating evolution to unlock nature's potential" — aiming to sustainably feed a growing population by shrinking the environmental footprint of agriculture through faster, more efficient plant breeding. ## Products & Services - **Boosted Breeding™**: A proprietary breeding platform that suppresses meiotic recombination, allowing offspring to inherit the complete genome from both parents (2x + 2x = 4x™). This creates "Boosted" plants that contain all beneficial traits from each parent, accelerating genetic gain and delivering predictable heterosis without multi-year selection cycles. - **Agile Breeding™**: A service that applies the Boosted Breeding platform across multiple crops to rapidly develop improved varieties. - **True Seed™**: A plant-breeding service delivering uniform, disease-free seedlings directly to growers — ready to sow, right out of the packet. Applied to crops like strawberries and potatoes. - **FruitionOne™**: The world's first self-fertile Nonpareil almond variety, eliminating the need for traditional bee pollination and cross-variety planting. - **Value-Added Traits**: Custom-developed traits (e.g., improved sustainability, better taste, longer shelf life, disease resistance) integrated into existing varieties for supply chain improvements. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed. - **Key Metric**: Total funding of approximately $100M (USD 99,999,969) across multiple rounds: - Seed (2019): Not disclosed - Early-stage venture (2021): $3.7M - Venture round (2024-01-25): $40.0M (2 investors) - Venture round (2024-05-01): $60.0M - Series B (2025-01-01): 1 investor - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Incubated by The Production Board (venture firm founded by David Friedberg). Partners include University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS), Florida Foundation Seed Producers, Inc., Florida Strawberry Growers Association, and the Ohalo Strawberry Consortium. - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount grew 40% YoY to 85 employees (with 17 active job postings as of mid-2025). - Recognized on the "50 by 2050" list by Congruent Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank for climate tech innovation. - Launched FruitionOne™ (self-fertile almond) and the Ohalo Strawberry Consortium in 2025. - Expanding into Brazil and United Arab Emirates. - CEO David Friedberg has appeared on the All-In Podcast with the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, signaling high-level policy engagement. ## Competitive Advantages - **Proprietary technology moat**: Boosted Breeding™ is a breakthrough approach that fundamentally changes plant reproduction — enabling entire genome inheritance from both parents. This is a patentable, hard-to-replicate scientific platform applicable to nearly every crop. - **Speed to market**: Traditional breeding can take decades; Ohalo's method can deliver improved varieties in a fraction of the time, with predictable outcomes. - **Broad crop applicability**: The platform works across potatoes, corn, berries, almonds, and more — not limited to a single crop. - **Strong investor & partner network**: Backed by The Production Board and partnered with major agricultural research institutions and grower consortia. - **Sustainability angle**: Higher yields with fewer inputs (water, land, pesticides) aligns with global climate and food security trends. ## Strategic Focus - **Commercial expansion**: Scaling the Ohalo Strawberry Consortium and potato programs, with plans to enter corn, berries, and other row crops. - **Partnership development**: Collaborating with seed companies, grower groups, and research institutions to license Boosted Breeding™ and distribute True Seed™. - **R&D pipeline**: Developing new self-fertile and disease-resistant varieties (e.g., FruitionOne™ almonds) and integrating value-added traits. - **Global footprint**: Building operations in Brazil and UAE to address international agricultural markets. - **Talent acquisition**: Actively hiring across engineering, plant breeding, commercial sales, and operations — with 17 open roles as of mid-2025. ## Why Work Here - **Mission-driven work**: Directly contribute to solving global food security and sustainability challenges through cutting-edge science. - **Innovative culture**: Described as "Farmers First," with a bias toward action, iteration, and finding truth — a fast-paced, science-first environment. - **Talent & team**: Employees come from top institutions (UC Davis, Iowa State, North Carolina State) and companies (Driscoll's, Zymergen, Inari). The team includes 29 researchers (26% of workforce) and 20 technical staff (18%). - **Growth trajectory**: 40% YoY headcount growth and $100M in funding signal a well-resourced, scaling company with career advancement opportunities. - **Diverse roles**: Openings range from Senior Full Stack Engineer and Quantitative Geneticist to Technical Sales Representatives and Greenhouse Technicians — appealing to both technical and commercial talent. - **Location & flexibility**: Headquarters in South San Francisco, CA, with remote roles available for some positions (e.g., Technical Sales Representatives across multiple US regions). Presence in Brazil and UAE offers global exposure. - **Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but as a well-funded private company, competitive compensation and equity are likely. The company emphasizes "improving the lives of farmers" and a collaborative, truth-seeking culture. ## Sources 1. [ohalo.com](https://www.ohalo.com/) 2. [ohalo.com/about](https://www.ohalo.com/about) 3. [Greenhouse Careers](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/ohalogenetics) 4. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohalo_Genetics) 5. 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