Senior React Engineer — Remote, Impact

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Research and Impact Acceleration (m/f/d)

The incumbent for this position may be based in the United States (US), Germany. Bayer Talent Acquisition is accepting applications for these locations under one global job posting which follows each country's individual employment laws. As such, applicants should expect to experience differences in the application process which are unique from a single country posting.

As the Research and Impact Acceleration Lead, you are part of the Product Design Capability Center and report to the Head of Product Design. In this role, you define and lead the vision, strategy, and multi-year plan for accelerating research and impact across the team through improvements in germplasm improvement units. You mobilize the organization to turn speed of learning, evidence quality, and iteration capacity into a durable competitive advantage in how the early part of the breeding pipeline operates, ensuring that innovation translates into faster, higher-quality product delivery for growers and customers worldwide.

Your Tasks and Responsibilities

• Define the vision and multi-year strategy for research acceleration across the early breeding pipeline, framing where faster learning creates durable competitive advantage and translating this into a prioritized portfolio against the highest-value constraints in cycle time, genetic gain, decision quality, and product delivery;
• Establish how the organization formulates and answers research questions by setting standards for hypothesis-driven design, decision-ready evidence, and disciplined scale, pivot, or stop decisions so that rapid iteration becomes the default operating rhythm rather than a collection of individual projects;
• Shape the enabling-technology agenda across accelerated breeding, genomics, phenotyping, predictive analytics, automation, and digital workflows, directing investment and partnerships toward the capabilities that will differentiate the pipeline;
• Lead the adoption strategy that institutionalizes proven innovation, governing the standards, workflows, training, and change management required to embed new practices across crops and regions at scale;
• Own the impact narrative and its metrics by defining how acceleration value is measured and reported on cycle time, genetic gain, cost, quality, and adoption, and using that evidence to steer investment, leadership decisions, and the Long-Range Plan;
• Provide technical, strategic, and product knowledge to the Capability Center, strategically contributing to key global Precision Breeding, Breeding, and R&D focus areas;
• Lead and contribute to Global Breeding strategies and the Long-Range Plan (LRP), ensuring alignment with high-level functional and commercial goals;
• Engage strategically with key universities to coach and guide future talent development, ensuring Bayer is viewed as a strategic talent destination of choice;
• Serve as a member of various L3 leadership units across commercial and product supply teams, helping connect research acceleration with downstream product and supply decisions;
• Ensure a strong focus on HS&E, Compliance, DEI, Business Conduct, and Human Rights across the Capability Hub, fostering a culture that emphasizes ethical practices, safety, inclusion, and responsibility.

WHO YOU ARE

Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required Qualifications

• PhD degree or MS degree in Plant or Animal Breeding, Quantitative or Statistical Genetics, Data Science, or a related field
• Strong knowledge of advanced breeding technologies, advanced analytics and information technologies, genomics, and/or quantitative genetics, with a proven track record of driving innovation into applied pipelines;
• Strong ability to collaborate and build cross-functional partnerships to solve complex business and technical problems across regions and functions;
• Demonstrated ability to embrace and role-model VACC leadership attributes, aligned with Bayer's Values, Ambition, Collaboration, and Creativity expectations, within the Capability Center and with peers and colleagues across Bayer Crop Science.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of technology leadership experience, or MS degree with 8+ year