About Oishii:

At Oishii, we grow the best fruit in the world by deploying ground-breaking vertical farming technology that pushes the boundaries of agriculture. We're the first in the world to grow fruit in an indoor vertical farm at commercial scale. We started with strawberries, which we debuted at Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare, the three star Michelin restaurant considered by critics to be among the best in the world. Since then, we have supplied our strawberries to food-loving consumers, world-class restaurants, and specialty retailers across NYC. Our proprietary technology, developed through years of intensive research in Japan and the US, enables us to grow the very best produce year-round, at the same high level of quality, all without using any pesticides. We have rapidly expanded our farm facilities and assembled a world-class team with backgrounds spanning vertical farming, industrial automation, farm operations, and data analysis. Oishii has been profiled in Eater, NPR, Time, and Fortune. If you're interested in building the farm of the future with us, we look forward to hearing from you!

About the role:

We're hiring Experienced Strawberry Expert Grower who can leverage their deep experience growing strawberries in conventional, greenhouse, and/or controlled environment agriculture to plan, lead, and manage the intersection between R&D activities and farm operations. As an Experienced Strawberry Expert Grower, you will work closely with senior farm operations and R&D management to advise on best practices, recommend optimizations, and ensure optimal plant outcomes.

What you'll do:

• You will be responsible for planning, managing, and optimizing plant health and human operations in Oishii's indoor vertical farming facilities
• Collaborate with farm operations and R&D senior leadership, applying your practical experience to advise on critical growing and operations related topics
• Advise on plant health, farm setup, and R&D plans
• Maintain and manage dashboards and KPIs to monitor critical outcomes
• Spend time in farm facilities to guarantee intimate understanding of plant and farm conditions

Who you are:

• Minimum 5 years of experience growing strawberries (greenhouse or CEA preferred)
• Intimate understanding of strawberry plants, which enables you to advise on plant health conditions
• Proven track record of growing healthy, disease free strawberry plants and high quality strawberry fruits in organic environment
• Can build plans to respond to observed plant and environmental needs
• Strong understanding of farm technologies and setup (irrigation, substrate, lighting)
• Able to bridge structured, data-driven mindset and qualitative observations to make sound decisions in a farm environment