Director of Cultivation

At 710 Labs, our mission is simple: to disrupt the industry through obsessive quality. We believe in quality over everything – quality people, quality thinking, quality expression, quality of life. We believe in open communication and genuine collaboration where everyone has a voice. We rise together as a team and as an industry.

710 Labs is an award-winning multi-state cannabis brand obsessed with making the richest flavored, organic, small batch cannabis on the planet. We are the OGs that hand select and hunt exotic cultivars from the most renowned breeders. We collaborate with artists such as Richard Prince, LSD World Peace, Astral Oracles, The Elder Statesman and Camp High among others for exclusive accessories and product drops.

Come join us.

The Director of Cultivation is responsible for overseeing all cultivation operations from propagation through harvest within a commercial cannabis facility. This role requires extensive expertise in crop management across various media types, environmental control systems, cannabis morphology, fertigation and irrigation strategy, and post-harvest workflow. The Director ensures that all cultivation departments operate cohesively, efficiently, and in alignment with 710 Labs’ quality and production standards.

The Director Of Cultivation Will

• Work collaboratively with the licensing partner’s leadership team to maintain alignment on operational goals, while ensuring that all cultivation activities strictly follow 710 Labs’ SOPs, quality standards, and production expectations.
• Lead all 710 Labs cultivation operations within licensed partner facilities
• Oversee nursery, cultivation (flowering), IPM/sanitation, and processing (harvest) teams
• Ensure all departments meet production deadlines, follow SOPs, and align with the production schedule
• Track and interpret cultivation and post-harvest KPIs using environmental and substrate data to drive decisions
  
  

Responsibilities Include

• Provide strong leadership to cultivation and harvest teams; develop both technical and soft skills
• Instill accountability, ownership, and high performance while maintaining a positive and respectful culture
• Motivate staff through education, mentorship, and consistent coaching
• Collaborate with VP of Cultivation to continue development of genetic library, implementing new cultivars, and calibrate the cultivation production schedule to meet sales objectives and optimize productivity
• Use an array of software to collect data, monitor KPI’s, and set data-driven performance goals for cultivation/harvest managers and teams
• Partner with department managers to forecast workflow and labor demand, maintaining appropriate number of staff to guarantee deadlines are met
• Troubleshoot all plant health issues and mitigate pest/pathogen pressure through rigid IPM practices, while upholding quality standards
• Continuous research and development of best cultivation processes and operational efficiencies, improve existing SOP’s and generate new ones to maintain streamlined production
• Constant refinement of best cultivation and post-harvest practices specific to individual cultivars
• Maintain an extremely high standard of quality in cultivation/processing practices and post-harvest final products, emphasizing cleanliness and attention to detail
• Collaborate with facilities/maintenance teams to ensure timely repairs, infrastructure upgrades, and facility improvements
• Ensure full compliance with all regulatory requirements and documentation standards
• Ensure all areas of cultivation production are using low impact practices to the best of our ability to reduce waste, innovate and improve processes in an effort to reduce our carbon footprint
• Any other tasks assigned by the VP of Cultivation
  
  

Who You Are

• An effective leader with a healthy balance of firm accountability and empathy, you can make the hard decisions objectively and nurture a sense of ownership with employees at all levels
• Highly detail-focused without losing sight of the bigger picture
• Skilled at analyzing data, diagnosing problems, identifying trends, and implementing effective solutions
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced production environment with shifting priorities
• 2-5 years of experience directly managing all aspects of cannabis cultivation in a licensed commercial facility with over 10,000 sq ft of flowering canopy
• 5-10 years of cannabis cultivation growing a wide variety of cultivars, knowledge of how they grow and what techniques to apply specific to an individual cultivars needs
• Well versed in commercial cultivation infrastructure, environmental controls and equipment, fertigation and irrigation systems
• Proven success cultivating high quality cannabis at scale while maintaining economically viable COGS and revenue generation
• Adept in project management and workflow software, spreadsheets, developing and tracking KPI’s, inventory management, labor forecasting, and efficient task delegation
• Bachelor's degree in plant science, business, or management, or 4 years equivalent experience as a Cultivation Manager in a commercial cannabis facility
  
  

Benefit packages include medical, dental, vision, Life/AD&D,401K Match, paid time off, and holidays.

Please note that the regulations and laws of the State require persons working onsite at a cannabis facility to be at least 21 years of age.

The Company is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.