Green House- Product Manager
Product
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
About Us
Kheyti helps smallholder farmers battle climate change through the "Greenhouse-in-a-Box", a low-cost greenhouse bundled with end-to-end services. Designed for smallholders, our greenhouse fits in 2% of their land, costs 33% lower than regular greenhouses, protects crops from environmental risks and grows 7x more food with 50x water efficiency. Along with the greenhouse, we work with partners to offer farmers financing, input linkage, training and market linkage services, creating a seamless path towards steady additional incomes of upto ₹1,00,000/year, a 3x increase in farm incomes. See this 2.5 minute video for more.
Through a culture of farmer centric design, we've brought down the cost of the greenhouse significantly to 90% lower than mainstream greenhouses. We've created collaborations with >100 organisations to offer farmers services. We've proven the model with 300 farmers today and will be serving 2,000 farmers in 12 months. We've won various awards for our initial work and have been featured in NatGeo, Outlook Business, FastCo, and Forbes. We are supported by DRK Foundation, Mulago Foundation, Cartier Philanthropy and Acumen. Our vision is to serve a million farmers in 10 years.
Job Description
Looking for passionate, innovative minds to ideate, design, test and launch end-to-end products in protected cultivation structures and add-ons
About Kheyti
Kheyti is an agri-tech that helps farmers double incomes and be climate resilient and sustainable. We democratize access to high-tech agriculture solutions by making them farmer-centric, low-cost and by bundling end-to -end services. Our vision is to see every farmer climate-smart.
The Opportunity
An exciting opportunity to drive farmer-centric product innovation—from discovery and prototyping to field validation—shaping next-generation greenhouse and allied solutions with real on-ground impact.
Job Type: Full time
Location: Hyderabad
Reporting to: R & D Lead
Level: Manager
Key Responsibilities
Implement Kheyti product innovation roadmap for core greenhouses and add-on products like tunnels, hoop houses, crop covers, agro voltaics etc.
Conduct discovery conversations with farmers and other stakeholders to understand customer and market needs
Ideate, conceptualise and prototype designs and materials in our R&D center and derive data based decisions
Conduct field visits and engage in conversations with Kheyti Team & Farmers to understand farmers’ feedback, on-ground challenges, regional agro-climatic conditions etc.
Convert ideas to sketches to designs. Testing of designs for strength & loads like wind or dead load on relevant softwares
Support on other R&D activities like crop R&D, protocol building, training etc.
Create SOPs and key documentation and build QA/QC systems
Ideal Candidate
The role requires a hands-on, field-oriented professional with a strong inclination toward human-centered, data-driven innovation.
Must-Haves
5+ Years of experience product design
Hardware product design experience
Willingness to engage in extensive fieldwork and travel as required
Product management experience
Strong project and stakeholder management skills
Nice-to-Haves
Experience in agri-infrastructure or greenhouse systems
Mechanical, civil & structural Engineering Background
Exposure to R&D environments, prototyping, or QA/QC systems
Not a Fit
Someone who wants to focus only on the "product roadmap" in isolation, without deep collaboration
Someone who prioritizes "global standards" and branded components over locally repairable, affordable, and accessible solutions
Hiring Process
HR Screening
Round-1 Interview
Field Visit + Case Study
Final Interview
Submit your application at: jobs.kheyti.com