Agronomist – Digital Agronomy & Farmer Validation (all genders)

Klim

At Klim, we work with farmers and food companies to make regenerative agriculture scalable and financially rewarding for farmers. Through our platform, we help farmers restore soil health, increase biodiversity and capture carbon while creating new, reliable income streams. We’re a Berlin-based AgriTech startup backed by $22M in Series A funding, partnering with global food leaders such as Nestlé and Kaufland to reduce emissions across their supply chains and build long-term resilience. Since 2020, we’ve supported 3,500 farmers managing over 900,000 hectares. If you’re passionate about building a sustainable food system and driving real climate impact, join us and help create a healthier planet! Your mission: You are responsible for translating regenerative agricultural expertise and science in arable farming systems in temperate climates into actionable, scalable digital products for farmers on Klim's platform. You ensure that Klim’s digital products are agronomically sound, farmer-relevant, commercially viable and delivered with high quality. Your responsibilities: * Own the agronomic logic behind farmer-facing recommendation and assessment engines. * Translate agronomic principles into digital products and clear product and engineering specifications. * Own and evolve digital agronomy products, including digital decision-support and assessment tools for farmers * Expand Klim’s capabilities for regenerative practices in temperate arable systems, including method prioritization, trade-off assessment, and scientific evidence integration. * Own and review agronomic datasets, literature, and assumptions used in digital products. * Contribute to roadmap and prioritization decisions based on farmer value, willingness to pay, partner value, technical feasibility, and strategic relevance. * Validate agronomic models, algorithms, and prototypes by challenging assumptions, stress-testing outputs against field reality, and approving agronomic soundness before release. * Support farmer validation through interviews, feedback analysis, test cases, and field-reality checks. * Monitor competitors and support expansion into new markets, geographies, and climate zones. * Serve as the internal expert on regenerative arable farming, supporting Product, Sales, Farmer Success, Marketing, Data, and Remote Sensing teams. * Review agronomic content, farmer-facing explanations, and English/German copy for accuracy and credibility. Depending on your experience, profile, skills and Klim’s team setup, this role may also include an Agronomy Team Lead scope with responsibility for managing the agronomy team. * Manage the agronomy team, translating strategic projects into execution * Review team outputs and ensure high standards of agronomic quality, scientific robustness and farmer relevance. Your profile: Agronomic Experience * You have 5+ years of experience in agronomy, regenerative agriculture, farm advisory, agricultural science, or a related field. * You have strong practical experience working with arable farms through farm management, agronomic advisory, or farmer-facing research. * You have a solid academic background in agronomy, agricultural sciences, or a related discipline. * You have a deep understanding of regenerative arable farming in temperate climates, including soil health, nutrient management, crop rotations, cover crops, tillage, and reduced-input systems. Skills * You can translate agronomic expertise into scalable digital products and critically assess models, algorithms, and recommendations. * You exercise strong judgement and can develop solutions in ambiguous or novel situations. * You are pragmatic, innovative, and motivated to create scalable value for farmers. * You are an effective communicator and collaborator across functions. * You have an interest in mentoring or team leadership (a plus, not a requirement). * You are comfortable using AI tools to improve efficiency while maintaining high-quality standards. Languages * You are fluent in English; German is a strong advantage. Your benefits: * Opportunity: Be part of our journey from the very beginning, working on an equal footing with the leadership team to build a new company. * Impact: Make a daily and active contribution to combating climate change, promoting consumer education, and fostering fair conditions for our climate-conscious farmers. * Autonomy: Take ownership of your projects and enjoy a high degree of creative freedom. * Flexible work model: At Klim, we foster a flexible, hybrid work approach and facilitate remote work (within the EU). It is advantageous for this role if you live in Berlin or can be present in our office regularly. * Additional benefits for Germany-based employees: We offer a subsidy for a membership in Urban Sports Club or the Deutschlandticket, a company pension scheme, plus team lunches (if based in Berlin) and regular team events. At Klim, we believe that a thriving workplace is built on the diverse backgrounds, talents, and perspectives of our team. We grow stronger together by embracing and building on each individual’s unique strengths. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. All hiring and personnel decisions are made solely based on qualifications, performance, and the needs of the company - ensuring fairness and equal opportunity for all. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. You might be the perfect fit for our team in ways you don’t yet realise!

Klim

At Klim, we work with farmers and food companies to make regenerative agriculture scalable and financially rewarding for farmers. Through our platform, we help farmers restore soil health, increase biodiversity and capture carbon while creating new, reliable income streams. We’re a Berlin-based AgriTech startup backed by $22M in Series A funding, partnering with global food leaders such as Nestlé and Kaufland to reduce emissions across their supply chains and build long-term resilience. Since 2020, we’ve supported 3,500 farmers managing over 900,000 hectares. If you’re passionate about building a sustainable food system and driving real climate impact, join us and help create a healthier planet! Your mission: You contribute to Klim’s agronomy team and farm economics work with research, data preparation, documentation, testing and content tasks that help us build high-quality digital agronomist products for arable farming systems in temperate climates. Your responsibilities: Research, data & knowledge management * Conduct desk research on regenerative arable practices, agronomic assumptions, farm economics, market dynamics and competitor research * Help maintain agronomic and farm-economic datasets, literature bases, benchmarks and source documentation. * Help structure insights from farmer interviews, user feedback, expert conversations and internal agronomy requests. * Support expansion research for new crops, regions, climate zones or farming systems. Product testing, quality checks & content * Support quality checks of digital agronomist features, recommendations, model outputs, copy and translations. * Prepare test cases, collect example farms or scenarios, and document whether outputs make practical sense. * Support checks of agronomic content on the platform for completeness, consistency and practical clarity. * Support German and English product strings, agronomic explanations, knowledge articles and farmer-facing content. * Use AI tools responsibly to accelerate research, documentation and synthesis. Your profile: Education & interests * You are enrolled in a German university, currently studying agricultural sciences, agronomy, agricultural economics, environmental sciences, sustainability, data science with an agriculture focus, or a related field; and available for at least one more year of study. * You have a strong interest in regenerative agriculture, digital agriculture, and farm-level decision-making. * You are interested in arable farming systems in temperate climates. Experience & skills * You have gained practical farming exposure through farm internships, fieldwork, seasonal farm work, or come from a farming background. * You are structured, reliable, and comfortable working with research, spreadsheets, documentation, and quality assurance processes. * You can synthesize complex information and communicate it in a clear, practical, and accessible way. * You are comfortable using AI tools to support research, analysis, and knowledge synthesis while maintaining high-quality standards. Languages * You have strong English communication skills; German is a strong advantage. Your benefits: * Opportunity: Be part of our journey from the very beginning, working on an equal footing with the leadership team to build a new company. * Impact: Make a daily and active contribution to combating climate change, promoting consumer education, and fostering fair conditions for our climate-conscious farmers. * Autonomy: Take ownership of your projects and enjoy a high degree of creative freedom. * Flexible work model: At Klim, we foster a flexible, hybrid work approach and facilitate remote work (within the EU). It is advantageous for this role if you live in Berlin or can be present in our office regularly. * Additional benefits for Germany Based employees: We offer membership in the Urban Sports Club or subsidisation of the Deutschlandticket, a company pension scheme, plus team lunches (if based in Berlin) and regular team events. At Klim, we believe that a thriving workplace is built on the diverse backgrounds, talents, and perspectives of our team. We grow stronger together by embracing and building on each individual’s unique strengths. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. All hiring and personnel decisions are made solely based on qualifications, performance, and the needs of the company - ensuring fairness and equal opportunity for all. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. You might be the perfect fit for our team in ways you don’t yet realise!

Klim

At Klim, we work with farmers and food companies to make regenerative agriculture scalable and financially rewarding for farmers. Through our platform, we help farmers restore soil health, increase biodiversity and capture carbon while creating new, reliable income streams. We’re a Berlin-based AgriTech startup backed by $22M in Series A funding, partnering with global food leaders such as Nestlé and Kaufland to reduce emissions across their supply chains and build long-term resilience. Since 2020, we’ve supported 3,500 farmers managing over 900,000 hectares. If you’re passionate about building a sustainable food system and driving real climate impact, join us and help create a healthier planet! Your mission: You bring the farm-business, economics lens and perspective on agricultural market opportunities for farmers into Klim’s digital agronomist products. Your focus is the financial, operational and market reality of arable farms in temperate climates, ensuring that recommendations, scenarios and models reflect how farmers actually think about profitability, risk, cash flow and investment decisions. Your responsibilities: 1. Farm economics models & benchmarks * Develop and maintain farm-economic models, metrics, and benchmarks, including production costs, profitability, ROI, and revenue streams. * Build benchmarking frameworks across farm types, regions, production systems, and transition stages. * Analyze farm accounting and operational data to develop economic assumptions, benchmarks, farm typologies, and segmentation. * Assess market opportunities and explore tools that help farmers make informed crop and marketing decisions. 2. Transition economics & farmer decision-making * Analyze the economic impact of regenerative practices on profitability, costs, revenues, cash flow, and risk. * Translate agronomic interventions, such as cover crops, tillage changes, fertilizer optimization, and crop rotations, into farm-level economic outcomes. * Model farmer decision-making, including investment planning, financing, equipment needs, and risk management. * Quantify and communicate the business case for regenerative agriculture for both farmers and food companies. 3. Economic product development * Integrate economic models with biophysical outputs such as yield effects, fertilizer reductions, soil carbon, and resilience indicators. * Contribute to farmer-facing economic decision support & planning tools * Define economic requirements, formulas, assumptions, and logic for product features. * Validate, document, and improve economic models to ensure they are accurate, transparent, and useful for farmers. * Collaborate closely with Product, Agronomy, Engineering, Commercial, and Farmer-facing teams. Your profile: Experience & domain knowledge * You have a strong background in agricultural economics, agricultural markets, farm management, agribusiness, farm consultancy, agricultural banking, policy, or a related field. * You have a strong understanding of the economics of arable farming systems in temperate climates. * You have practical exposure to farming through farm management, consultancy, agricultural finance, advisory work, or a farming background. * You understand how farmers balance agronomic, operational, and economic considerations when making decisions. * Experience with regenerative agriculture is a plus, but not required if you can objectively assess its economic implications. Analytical & technical skills * You are comfortable building quantitative models, working with farm financial data, and deriving meaningful insights from complex real-world datasets. * You can connect economic models with agronomic, biophysical, commercial, and farmer realities. * You are analytical, detail-oriented, and capable of working independently with quantitative and conceptual problems. * You are comfortable with research, modelling, and other desk-based analytical work. * You communicate complex findings clearly to a broad range of stakeholders. Languages & tools * You are fluent in English; German is a strong advantage. * You are comfortable using AI tools to increase efficiency while maintaining high-quality standards. Your benefits: * Opportunity: Be part of our journey from the very beginning, working on an equal footing with the leadership team to build a new company. * Impact: Make a daily and active contribution to combating climate change, promoting consumer education, and fostering fair conditions for our climate-conscious farmers. * Autonomy: Take ownership of your projects and enjoy a high degree of creative freedom. * Flexible work model: At Klim, we foster a flexible, hybrid work approach and facilitate remote work (within the EU). It is advantageous for this role if you live in Berlin or can be present in our office regularly. * Additional benefits for Germany-based employees: We offer membership in the Urban Sports Club or subsidisation of the Deutschlandticket, a company pension scheme, plus team lunches (if based in Berlin) and regular team events. At Klim, we believe that a thriving workplace is built on the diverse backgrounds, talents, and perspectives of our team. We grow stronger together by embracing and building on each individual’s unique strengths. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. All hiring and personnel decisions are made solely based on qualifications, performance, and the needs of the company - ensuring fairness and equal opportunity for all. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. You might be the perfect fit for our team in ways you don’t yet realise!