We are advancing practical, scalable solutions to help animals

Careers at Innovate Animal Ag

At Innovate Animal Ag, each day is a new challenge. One day we might talk to animal scientists and dig into literature to assess the welfare impact of a new technology. The next day we might talk to the media about a recent technological breakthrough. The next, we might prepare a pitch deck for an agricultural producer to invest in a new technology. You don’t have to have done all this before, but you have to be able to jump in if that’s what needs to be done.

Our core mission is to improve animal welfare through advancing cutting-edge technologies. As a nonprofit think-tank, we don’t directly develop technologies ourselves. Rather, we support technologies through ecosystem level work, trying to find ways to price in the positive externality of animal welfare. In practice, this work consists of:

  • Deeply researching new trends and technologies in animal agriculture through literature review, trade press, and speaking to producers.

  • Identifying new technologies that could have a large positive impact on animal welfare, then understanding their commercial status and bottlenecks to adoption.

  • Designing interventions to alleviate those bottlenecks and running small trials to assess if they could be impactful.

  • Scaling up the trials that seem to be working.

As a fairly young startup nonprofit, our program is constantly evolving. We have way more ideas than we have time to try. If you are excited about the idea of building this new organization from the ground up, please join us!

“I believe that animal welfare as a social and political cause is massively underperforming its potential because practical, scalable solutions are not yet at the center of discussion. We focus so much on telling people what they shouldn’t eat, and telling businesses what they shouldn’t do. The climate movement achieved success by centering technologies like renewable energy and electric vehicles, then mobilizing massive social and political capital towards their adoption. Animal welfare is structurally similar, ultimately being about mitigating negative externalities of industrialization. The broadest ambition of Innovate Animal Ag is to bring a techno-optimist revolution to animal welfare, advancing technological solutions to major challenges and seeking to reward innovative and disruptive companies that are doing things better.”

— Robert Yaman, CEO

Open Roles

  • If you don’t see a role that’s an obvious fit, we also welcome applications from exceptional candidates who have a passion for our mission, and who may be able to contribute in unique ways.

    If you’re interested, please send a resume and a short personal essay (<1 page) to careers@innovateanimalag.org. In your personal essay, please focus on your relationship to our mission, and why you want to work at Innovate Animal Ag.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.