Country Lead - Indonesia

Mitti Labs; Tangerang; Hybrid; IDR 1,225,490,196 - 1,750,700,280; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Genuine ownership of projects

Work with a world-class team

Backed by leading climate investors

Job summary

Mitti Labs Limited is seeking a Country Lead for Indonesia. In this role, you will design and launch high-impact agricultural projects, manage operations for farmer onboarding, and build a high-performing team. Ideal candidates will have over 8 years of experience in operations or agriculture, specifically in Indonesia, and must be fluent in Bahasa Indonesia. This founding role has the opportunity to shape a climate and food-security program in a vital agricultural nation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in operations, agriculture, or rural development.
• Direct experience managing agricultural field operations in Indonesia.
• Experience in agri-input distribution or farmer community leadership preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage operations roadmap and partnerships.
• Develop localized farmer onboarding strategies.
• Hire and develop a high-performing in-country team.

Skills

Operations Management

Agriculture

Team Building

Fluency in Bahasa Indonesia

English Proficiency

Job description

The Role

Indonesia is the world’s third-largest rice producer, with over 8 million smallholder farming households cultivating rice. Rice cultivation is also one of Indonesia’s largest sources of agricultural methane and water use, making it both a massive climate challenge and an extraordinary opportunity for high-quality carbon removal.

The Country Lead – Indonesia is a founding role. You will design, launch, and scale Mitti Labs’ initial projects in Indonesia. You will lead the team from our first pilot cohort of farmers to a multi-province, high-impact programs. You will wear strategy and operations hat and build a capable team from scratch.

Market Entry

• Design and own Indonesia’s operations roadmap: regional feasibility, budget planning, and building partnerships.
• Develop localized farmer onboarding strategies that reflect regional value chains, community power structures, last-mile realities, and seasonal farming calendars.
• Navigate Indonesia’s carbon regulatory landscape: KLHK carbon registry, SRN-PPI compliance, and emerging domestic carbon market mechanisms.

On-Ground Operations

• Design and manage district specific operational playbooks -SOPs, training manuals, QA/QC frameworks
• Build genuine trust with farming communities at the grassroots level — understanding local power dynamics, working with village heads, FPO leaders, and community mobilizes.

Team Building & Leadership

• Hire and develop a high-performing in-country team.
• Build a culture that reflects Mitti’s ethos.
• Manage external implementation partners and field agent networks.

Qualifications

• +8 years in operations, agriculture, or rural development with clear evidence of building programs from scratch and scaling.
• Direct experience managing agricultural field operations in Indonesia - preferably rice.
• Track record with government department and related NGO relationships is a bonus.
• Experience in agri-input distribution or farmer community leadership is strongly preferred.
• Bahasa Indonesia fluency is required. English proficiency is essential for internal collaboration.
• Willingness to travel 40–60% across provinces and in remote farming areas.

Benefits

• Build projects that matter: a first-of-its-kind climate and food-security program in one of the world’s most important agricultural nations.
• Founding role: genuine ownership, genuine impact. You will be Mitti Labs in Indonesia.
• Work with a world-class team combining the best of science, product, business, and operations — with a culture of openness, direct collaboration, and unbiased decision-making.
• Backed by leading climate investors with the resources to build for the long term.
• Direct relationship with founders and leadership in a fast-scaling, mission-driven organization.