Managing Director

4 months ago


Montreal, Canada Stonewood Group Inc. Full time
p>Located in Montreal, Quebec, a global hub for artificial intelligence talent, our client is revolutionizing the commercial greenhouse and indoor farming industry. Through cutting-edge AI solutions, our client delivers actionable, data-driven insights that allow greenhouse operators to improve profits by dramatically improving crop yield.

Scope of Position

Founded by a young, passionate and talented team with deep technical and market knowledge, our client now seeks a CEO with a proven track record who will be tasked with capitalizing on the significant global market opportunity by refining the company’s strategic path forward.

  • Strong industry and company growth
  • A large market opportunity
  • Committed financial backers
  • A highly entrepreneurial culture
  • An opportunity to be at the center of a true revolution in agriculture

Functional Tasks

As a visionary and hands-on CEO, the leader will have the chance to continue to foster the company’s strategy and culture by:

  • Product: Contributing to the development and execution of the product roadmap; developing a market strategy and market positioning.
  • Building on existing developed AI yield prediction tools and products, setting direction by validating key markets and verticals and assessing development priorities for R&D investments.
  • Management: Leading team members by focusing on tactical short-and-medium term goals and objectives to achieve results.
  • Demonstrating strong leadership, management and development of a small team of highly committed employees as well as creating a collaborative work environment.
  • Meeting with key accounts and distribution partners to establish key drivers to leverage existing client base and network to drive sales and execution; fostering ongoing relationships with key accounts and identifying, establishing and negotiating strategic partnerships as well as ongoing support on existing partnerships.
  • Administrative: Reporting and communicating the company’s strategy and providing key progress to the board of directors.

Key Performance Deliverables

  • Number of clients on monthly revenue contracts by early 2020
  • Actual MRR rate by early 2020
  • AI algorithms for diverse crops and multi-week yield forecast accomplished or launched
  • Team cohesiveness
  • Quality of presentations to board, potential investors, marketing/sales material
  • Extent of distribution network around the world
  • Number of academia/industry R&D experts under co-development projects

Competency Profile

The competencies listed below define the role of CEO:

  • Planning and Objective Setting: Systematic in approach to work; Is realistic about time-scales and builds in appropriate checkpoints, milestones, and controls in order to ensure that desired results are realized.

Preferred Experience / Education

The following describes industry, academic and functional experience/qualifications that are important to the successful achievement of the identified responsibilities and performance deliverables:

  • Graduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering Science, Business or similar.
  • Senior management experience scaling a growth-oriented technology start-up.
  • Proven track record of managing a P&L combined with managing multiple value creation projects that drive agreed upon outcomes.
  • Strong intellectual curiosity, and an ability to synthesize large amounts of technical information.
  • Knowledge of or prior experience with AgTech and/or data-driven solutions preferred; an understanding of the key dynamics of greenhouse farming would be ideal.
  • Proven ability to create a vision and drive technology solutions that address market needs.


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