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Track

Executive

Family rungs priced

E1 · E2 · E3 · E4 · E5

19-0000

industrial_energy_operations

Coordinates

3 / 4 spaces

pay@2 · 2026-07

What this role is

Executive leader who sets the strategic direction for agronomic research, soil and crop management practices, and land-use planning across the organization. At the Director (Executive) (E1) level, the role owns a significant function with strategic authority, strategic and cross-functional, and drives function-wide enterprise impact. Executive leadership of a function.

What this level does

Leads the agronomy sub-function (trial design, soil/nutrient science, precision-ag deployment) through Directors, owning agronomic strategy for a region or a single product line
Approves trial priorities and methodologies across the function and translates multi-year dataset results into commercial recommendations for growers
Sets fertility, IPM and irrigation program standards for the function and holds accountability for their agronomic and regulatory correctness
Interfaces with major grower accounts and cross-functional peers (product, commercial, supply) to align agronomic recommendations with business plans
Allocates agronomist and technician resources, secures grant/trial funding, and manages the function's operating budget

Knowledge applied: Applies deep functional agronomic knowledge (plant physiology, soil chemistry, IPM, precision-ag) plus detailed company knowledge to set strategy for the agronomy sub-function; converts multi-year trial data into commercial and program direction.
Complexity & problem solving: Solves functional agronomic strategy problems — trial-portfolio prioritization, program standards, regional/product-line direction — with serious functional and business consequences.
Collaboration & interaction: Interfaces with other executives and major grower/channel customers; leads a complete agronomy sub-function through Directors (M5s).
Typical experience: 12–15+ years of agronomic and management experience; typically advanced degree plus proven field-to-strategy leadership.

Skills at this level

Strategic planning: — Sets agronomic strategy and trial/investment priorities across regions and product lines, aligning crop-science direction with organizational and market goals.
Agronomic modeling: — Directs advanced modeling of crop and soil systems to forecast yield and resource-use outcomes that inform portfolio and product-line investment decisions.
Precision agriculture: — Governs enterprise deployment of geospatial and variable-rate technologies — yield mapping, variable-rate seeding and irrigation — as a strategic capability across the business.
Remote-sensing analytics: — Sets strategy for satellite/drone NDVI imagery programs that compare topography with soil, fertility, pest and weather data to guide large-scale agronomic decisions.
Regulatory compliance: — Establishes the agronomic regulatory and stewardship posture across business units, ensuring pesticide, fertility and field-practice programs meet agricultural regulations.
Stakeholder negotiation: — Negotiates critical agronomic licensing, supply and partnership matters with trait providers, ag-tech vendors and major grower cooperatives at the executive level.
Program management: — Oversees enterprise agronomic programs and trial networks, allocating agronomist and technician resources and securing grant and research funding.
Nutrient and fertility management: — Sets enterprise standards for analyzing nutrient levels and building fertilizer recommendations from soil, plant and water data across the crop portfolio.
Integrated Pest Management (IPM): — Directs the strategy for identifying and controlling pests, diseases and agronomic risks using IPM approaches at the division and enterprise scale.
Irrigation and water management: — Governs enterprise policy on soil and water management, crop rotation and irrigation practice as part of resource-use-efficiency commitments.
Data analysis: — Translates multi-year, large-scale crop-yield and soil datasets into commercial recommendations and enterprise strategic direction.
Experimental design: — Approves trial and experimental methodologies across the agronomy function to ensure new crop varieties, fertility and pest-control tests yield decision-grade evidence.
Soil science / soil chemistry: — Applies expert understanding of soil chemical, physical, biological and mineralogical composition to set the scientific basis for enterprise crop-production strategy.
Plant biology / plant physiology: — Grounds portfolio and R&D decisions in deep knowledge of plant biology and physiology underpinning crop growth, breeding and production.

Model-authored from 7 retrieved sources, then adversarially reviewed by an independent judge panel and held to a minimum-evidence floor before publication. Distinct from corpus-extracted content, which is labelled as such.

Pay across the ladder

Agronomist — median with , by . Real canon data.

National-base pricing — this family's function differential is pending review, so dollar levels are not function-adjusted (level-over-level % is unaffected).

Pay figures are modeled estimates from our market equation — level-differentiated, with honest-wide bands. They refresh as new leveling evidence lands; treat per-role dollars as directional.

Demand — is the field growing, or just turning over?

SOC 19-0000 · national

Employment growth 2019–2024, BLS OEWSobserved

+17.3%Soil and Plant Scientists · United States

14,150 → 16,600 jobs

1,700 openings / year, split into:

replacement / exits 1,588

Growth — new jobs (7%)Exits — backfill (93%)

7% of hiring here is genuine expansion; the rest backfills people who move on.

Projected growth 2024–34 expanding: +5.4%
Growth share of hiring: 7%
Exit / retention pressure high: 93%
Openings / year: 1,700

Two quantities, kept apart: observed = employment growth differenced from two BLS OEWS vintages (what already happened); projected = BLS Employment Projections 2024–34, openings decomposed into growth + exits (growth derived from projected employment change). Neither is a pay figure.

Where this role sits — growth vs. pay

level E1 held

Demand axis is projected growth (not raw openings — that just measures churn). A curated, de-duplicated set of recognizable occupations held at this level; this role is highlighted.

Where it pays — by metro

OEWS metro median

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA$282k

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$253k

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$234k

Boulder, CO$231k

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$231k

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH$221k

Lexington Park, MD$216k

Trenton-Princeton, NJ$214k

Pay only — metro-level demand isn't in public data (it needs job postings). National median $169k; the demand-cube initiative will add growth-by-metro.

What changes across the ladder

Level-distinction canon isn't available for the adjacent levels of this profile yet.

Level differentiators

What separates E1 (E1 — Director (Executive)) from the levels around it — this level only. Every word is real canon for this profile.

Scope: A significant function with strategic authority
Autonomy: Sets functional strategy
Complexity: Strategic and cross-functional
Impact: Function-wide enterprise impact
Decision rights: Owns strategy and investment for the function
Leadership: Executive leadership of a function

Full level-by-level matrix (side by side across the ladder) lives on the Ladder drill-down — not here.

Promotion

The next rung from E1 is E2.

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People also watch

Nearest coordinate neighbors — same , same level. Each row's (confident / review / no match) comes from its — computed, not curated.

Profile	Key	Median	Δ structural
Agronomy Supervisor	jf_agronomist::M1	$85,619†	confident0.06
Associate Agronomist	jf_agronomist::P1	$61,862†	confident0.06
Agronomy Technician	jf_agronomist::S1	$37,323†	confident0.06
SVP of Agronomy	jf_agronomist::E2	$322,728†	confident0.06

†National-base pricing — this family's function differential is pending review, so the dollar level is not function-adjusted.

Capability cluster

O*NET 19-1013

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The Job Swatch

E1

jf_agronomist::E1

VP of Agronomy

Agronomist

The swatch is JobFrame's core primitive: a hueset deterministically by the role's superfunction, the profileKey as its color code, the level ladder, and a content fingerprint. Two swatches that look alike are alike.

Because every role carries computable coordinates, similarity, leveling, and pricing become measurable instead of arguable— the whole point of "Pantone for jobs."

Structural

structural@1

Where it sits— position in the work taxonomy + level (weighted Gower, level > function > focus).

Track: E
Superfunction: industrial_energy_operations
Function: engineering_expansion
Family: agronomist
Universal level: 1 / 8

Content

content@2

What it's about— a fingerprint over the role's tasks & capabilities.

Two roles can sit far apart structurally yet be close in content — that gap is itself a signal.

3-state matching

How any two swatches compare — a real distance in coordinate space, resolved to a calibrated verdict (never a fake "94% match").

Aeronautical · E1review0.17

Agricultural · E1review0.17

Application Services · E1review0.17

Chemical · E1review0.17

Communication · E1review0.17

Electrical Engineering · E1review0.17

Editions — frozen & versioned

structural@1live

Released 2026-06-17

content@2live

Released 2026-07-28

pay@2live

Released 2026-07-02

semantic@1live

Released 2026-07-02

Coordinates belong to a frozen, versioned edition — a coordinate computed today still means the same thing next quarter. Re-fitting issues a new edition, so comparisons are never silently redefined.

How to read this profile

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Where every number comes from

What	Source & method	Edition	State
Median pay + range	JobFrame pay equation (function base × family multiplier × level × focus differential)	pay@2	computed
Pay across the ladder	Same equation applied at each universal level	pay@2	computed
Demand — growth & openings	BLS Employment Projections; openings decomposed into growth + exits	EP 2024–34	projected
Pay by metro	BLS OEWS metropolitan medians	OEWS 2024	observed
Level distinctions	JobFrame universal-level canon (scope · autonomy · complexity · impact · decision rights · leadership)	canon	canon
Capability cluster	O*NET Knowledge / Skills / Abilities	O*NET 19-1013	computed
Coordinates	JobFrame coordinate system — structural (weighted Gower) + content fingerprint	structural@1 · content@2 · pay@2 · semantic@1	computed
Related roles	Nearest neighbors in the structural coordinate space	structural@1	computed

The principles behind the numbers

Ranges, not false precision

Pay is P10 · median · P90, never a single misleading number.

Three honest states, never a fake %

Role matches resolve to confident / review / no-match — a calibrated verdict, not a made-up percentage.

Provenance on every value

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Gaps shown as gaps

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Frozen, versioned editions

Pay and coordinate editions are pinned, so a comparison you make today still means the same thing next quarter.

Privacy by min-N

Any aggregate over people is suppressed below a minimum count, so no individual is identifiable.

Freshness

As of2026-07-30Editioncanon-v2@2.1.0-completeSourcecanon-v2 cell + salary-benchmark (model)