Country Lead - Indonesia

Mitti Labs; Indonesia; On-site; IDR 1,050,420,168 - 1,750,700,280; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Genuine ownership in a pioneering climate program

Work with a world-class team

Direct relationship with founders

Job summary

Mitti Labs is seeking a Country Lead for Indonesia to design, launch, and scale initial agricultural projects. This founding role involves building partnerships, managing a high-performing team, and navigating the local carbon regulatory landscape. The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of experience in operations or agricultural development, including managing agricultural field operations. Candidates must be fluent in Bahasa Indonesia and willing to travel across provinces. Join us to create genuine impact in a vital agricultural nation.

Qualifications

• +8 years in operations, agriculture, or rural development with evidence of building programs from scratch.
• Direct experience managing agricultural field operations in Indonesia.
• Experience in agri-input distribution or farmer community leadership preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage Indonesia's operations roadmap.
• Develop localized farmer onboarding strategies.
• Build genuine trust with farming communities.

Skills

Operations management

Agricultural development

Team leadership

Fluency in Bahasa Indonesia

English proficiency

Education

8+ years in operations, agriculture, or rural development

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.