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Sr. Agronomist

Job Description

City Greens is a fast-growing AgriTech startup building automation and AI-driven solutions for Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA). We work with modern farms, growers, and institutions to help them improve productivity, efficiency, and sustainability through technology.

We are looking for a seasoned Senior Agronomist to be the technical backbone of our client success function. You will own crop performance outcomes across CityGreens client farms — on the ground, hands-on, pan-India.

As a Senior Agronomist, you will:

• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for CityGreens clients post farm setup
  
• Conduct regular site visits — crop health assessments, troubleshooting, and intervention planning
  
• Develop and deliver crop-specific SOPs, agronomy calendars, and advisory protocols tailored to each farm
  
• Train and upskill client farm teams on CEA crop management best practices
  
• Coordinate with CityGreens' internal agronomy and tech teams to feed field learnings back into our systems and products
  
• Support pre-sales technical assessments and crop feasibility evaluations where required
  

Requirements

Requirements

• Minimum 6–8 years of hands-on agronomy experience in field.
  
• Deep working knowledge of at least two of: protected cultivation (polyhouse/greenhouse), hydroponics or aeroponics, mushroom cultivation, high-value horticulture
  
• Strong diagnostic skills — ability to identify and resolve crop health, nutrition, and environmental issues in controlled environment settings
  
• Proven experience training farm labour and client-side teams
  
• Comfortable working with data — farm management software, IoT/sensor outputs, yield and input tracking
  
• Willingness and ability to travel extensively (2–3 weeks per month) — non-negotiable
  
• Based in Bangalore or willing to relocate
  

Benefits

Benefits

• Competitive salary: ₹60,000 – ₹80,000 per month (based on experience)
  
• PF
  
• Health Insurance coverage
  
• Company-provided accommodation during client site visits
  
• Opportunity to work with India's most innovative CEA farms across diverse geographies and crop systems
  
• Exposure to cutting-edge AgriTech, precision farming tools, and a high-impact, fast-growing team