Mad Agriculture

Our mission is to create a regenerative revolution in agriculture.

Why work with Mad Agriculture?

Our mission is to create a regenerative revolution in agriculture. At Mad Ag we believe that healing our relationships to self, others and the earth is our highest calling. To do this, we put radical ideals to work. We see no division between the work of the heart, soul and mind. We crack it all open, with the belief that the power to affect change lies in the interplay between these realms. We seek regenerative transformation by blending the dimensions of agriculture, social psychology, aspirational politics, philosophy, science, carbon cycling, ecology, sacred economics, movement building, markets, poetry, innovation and more.

Mad Ag Culture:

• We are a container for growth and discovery; a community to express your passion, find belonging and meaning; and, an opportunity to expand your community of practice and change.
• We are excited to help you move boldly to fulfill your dreams of work and play. 
• We require personal, progressional and societal transformation.
• We play long term games with long term people. 
• We are a relationship focused business. Strong relationships mean everything.
• We have a bias to action. Thoughts without action are dead.
• We are here to change agriculture.

The Role:

This year we launched one of the raddest funds in agriculture and we’re looking to grow our team to help steward it. We are focused on providing regenerative organic farmers with the financial resources they need to create ecological and economic wealth. You will be focused on working with these pioneering farmers to provide them working capital, equipment, and infrastructure loans so they can transform their farms and the broader food system. You will be in charge of working with our growing pipeline of farmers to lead diligence, loan commitments, and loan servicing. We have loads of farmers who wish to work with us, and we need help qualifying who is the best fit to lead this revolution in agriculture and finance.

 

You will have the creative freedom to independently help create the future of our Capital arm as we continue to march forward. We are growing fast, building our next business for a 2022 launch, and need a hard working, entrepreneurial person in the saddle with us. 

 

We need your help to build, launch, and steward these businesses. Creating the first financial platform for regenerative organic farmers is no small task. We are going to move $10B into regenerative organic farmers hands by 2030. We need ambitious and creative people with the grit to get this done. Join us. 

To join our team, you should be excited to:

• Lead comprehensive farmer credit analysis. You will lead due diligence and underwriting on loan opportunities for organic farmers. You will collect farmer information, develop, and provide detailed analysis of a farmer's current financial position, forecasted future cash flows, and craft deal memos to help the capital team make loan decisions. You will be directly involved in the decision making process to approve or deny a loan.
• Loan documentation. You will complete loan documents (we have documents), file UCCs, and initial wire transfers for all loans. 
• Risk management. You are comfortable managing risk within each loan from origination to yearly payments, as well as managing risk across a multi-state portfolio of 25 loans.
• Credit policy development. You are ready to review and improve our internal credit policies and guidelines. You will work to create a checklist, underwriting wiki, and other information that will be used by future team members as we grow. 
• Help portfolio farmers thrive economically. You will have the opportunity to advise our portfolio of farmers across the midwest with recommendations to help them run marginal analysis to optimize future growth, access lower cost capital, set up a long term and actionable economic plan, and be ready to help them succeed in any way you can.
• Manage internal fund performance. You will be ready to manage a portfolio of $10M and 25 loans accounting for distributions, payments, loan deferrals, remediation strategies, additional capital raises, and more.
• Manage multiple engagements. From calling farmers to loan servicing you are ready to manage multiple relationships at once. Run simultaneous engagements and processes, across the entire portfolio, with a balance of responsiveness and thoughtfulness.
• Build and cultivate long lasting relationships with a network of farmers, capital, partners and advisors. Will curate and find promising lending opportunities in their domain by developing relationships with our current and future network of partners.
• Build the future of farm finance. You are getting in at the ground floor as we build and grow quickly.

 

In the near future:

• Team Building. Help in hiring, coaching, developing and mentoring credit analytics talent at Mad Ag. 
• Communication. Facilitate quarterly, and annual business reviews for the Capital team, leadership teams, and to investors in the Perennial Fund.
• Launch future funding vehicles. We will be launching new funding vehicles on the heels of PF 1 in 2022. You will be at the helm of ideating, formulating the financials, and helping launch those finance vehicles.

 

Desired Qualifications:

• Lending or related financial experience. Demonstrated personal and professional achievement.
• You can lead farmer negotiation of all transaction documentation from origination to loan servicing.
• You know your way around a Balance Sheet, Cash Flow, and Income statement. Bonus points if you’re familiar with a Schedule F.
• Excited to adopt Lean Startup principles and understand the importance of User Experience.
• Experience with financial modeling and analysis. 
• Familiar or ability to quickly understand broad acre organic grain farm crops, ranging from corn, small grains, legumes and livestock. 
• You’re entrepreneurial and ready to build new businesses with us.
• You understand what it means to keep the human component in everything you do.
• You’re a self-starter able to function independently and adapt to changing priorities in a start-up, fast-paced, and ambiguous environment.
• You have a no task is too small mentality. You can dig into the trench work when necessary.
• You have the ability to quickly build trust with farmers, team members, and partners.
• Outstanding attention to detail and follow through.
• Creative, curious, and have a relentless intellectual curiosity.
• Positive demeanor, good instincts and self motivation.
• Business-minded, always trying to marry ideas between ecological and financial wealth creation.

Remote

10/04/2021

$75,000 - $105,000