Riley Roberts

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Co-founder & COO at Heron Care · Agritech

Heron Care
Pittsburgh, PA · ET (UTC-5)
11+ years experience
Cornell University
English, German
Hiring
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Overview

Building Heron Care in Pittsburgh - agritech. Signed 346 paying customers, 8 of them enterprises. Before that: General Motors and Qualcomm. Outside work: long runs and longer podcasts.

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  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Working sessions on agriculture
  • Questions about agritech
  • Second opinions on supply chain decisions
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  • Unpaid work or spec projects
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Skills
supply chainagriculturefintechrural distribution
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Heron Care is hiring 3 product designers in Pittsburgh

Role
Product designer
Level
Mid
Type
Contract
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$181k-$219k
Team
Founding team, 5 people
Start
As soon as possible
Must have
A portfolio of shipped product work Comfort working directly with engineers Clear written communication
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp $180k-$316k. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Pittsburgh, PA · remote OKfintechagriculturerural distribution
Open

Experience

  1. Co-founder & COO
    Jan 2022 - Present
    Heron Care · 4 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Pittsburgh, PA
    • Grew the team to 27 people across 4 countries.
    • Raised $5 million across 3 rounds.
    • Took Heron Care from zero to $6 million ARR.
  2. Associate Partner
    Apr 2018 - Jan 2022
    General Motors · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Pittsburgh, PA
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 18 minutes to under 4.
    • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 23% in two quarters.
  3. Senior Consultant
    Oct 2015 - Apr 2018
    Qualcomm · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Pittsburgh, PA
    • Designed the operating model for a 12 thousand-person transformation.

Projects

Open-source rural distribution toolkit
2025

A small library for agritech that 69 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. Cornell University
    BS, Engineering
    2011 - 2015

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