Grower Job at Babylon Micro-Farms, Inc.

Babylon Micro-Farms, Inc. Richmond, VA 23230

About Babylon:

Babylon Micro-Farms is changing the future of farming with its environmentally friendly, software-enabled hydroponic farms. We serve commercial dining operators nationwide, from universities to senior living communities, providing them with access to 40+ crops, top-notch training/support, and a mobile app to help them grow fresh, nutritious produce on-site. Babylon is a high-growth, early-stage company based in the Scott’s Addition neighborhood of Richmond, VA.

Job Description:

1. Managing day to day plant operations at BabylonHQ:

  • Ensure that all BabylonHQ micro-farms are clean, functional and full of plants
  • Organizing Growth Trials in a Controlled Environment
  • Executing Trials (Seeding, planting, harvesting, and cleaning)
  • Data Collection (Yields, density, plant health, issues etc.)

2. Ensuring plant success for all Babylon customers

  • Overall owner of Horticultural remote management
  • Help Customer Success team with diagnosing and solving plant growth issues at customer sites
  • Monitor dashboards and create and update tickets to pre-emptively address farm issues
  • Run and update Customer Water quality index by arranging samples with water quality lab
  • With time, build out support materials and guides to train non-Hort team members

3. Researching nutritional and health benefits of different crop varieties and creating content to support marketing collateral.

4. Hardware and software feedback - as an operator of our Micro-Farms consistent feedback will be essential in helping the engineering team to improve the user experience.

Experience Requirements:

4-year degree in Plant Science, Horticulture, or a related field. At least 1 year of hydroponic or vertical farming experience is required. Experience managing plant trials using scientific methods and accurate data collection is helpful. Plant cultivation, preferably in controlled environments. Customer success/support experience is a plus.

Desired Skills and Traits:

Passion for plants, growing, and indoor agriculture, highly organized, detail oriented, appreciation for customer success, tech-savvy, understanding of software, strong communication skills, ability to work independently and move projects forward.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $42,000.00 per year

Benefits:

  • Dental insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Vision insurance

Schedule:

  • 8 hour shift
  • Day shift
  • Monday to Friday

Education:

  • High school or equivalent (Preferred)

Experience:

  • growing/horticulture: 1 year (Preferred)
  • hydroponic or controlled environment growing: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: One location




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