Forward Deployed Sustainability Engineer, Product Footprints

Watershed • Denver, CO

7d • Hybrid

About The Position

Forward Deployed Sustainability Engineers (FDSEs) are a new kind of role at Watershed: part technical builder, part trusted customer partner, part product iterator. You'll sit at the intersection of our product engineering teams and our customers, doing the hands-on, creative work of figuring out how Watershed's newest AI products deliver outcomes for sustainability teams in the real world.
This is a deliberately experimental role. We're building a small incubation team that embeds directly within our product and engineering teams and works closely alongside our most strategic customers on our new AI products. You'll co-develop AI skills, build prototypes, agents and workflows, and bring back fast, high-quality feedback to shape how our products evolve.
Concretely, you'll focus on one of Watershed's flagship AI products: Product Footprints, our solution for measuring and decarbonizing physical goods and their value chains. You’ll work closely with our largest, most strategic customers to drive real scope 3 decarbonization by using Product Footprints.

Requirements

• You've built things: scripts, prototypes, data pipelines, or AI-assisted workflows. You're comfortable writing prototype quality code and aren't afraid to move fast.
• Experience with AI tooling, including building skills, building products with LLMs, or prototyping agent workflows
• Fluent with data tools (Excel, SQL, Python): wrangling messy data, building lightweight pipelines, turning raw inputs into usable outputs
• You understand corporate sustainability: scope 1/2/3 emissions, product footprints, supply chain decarbonization, or related domains
• You can hold your own in a room with a LCA professional and a data engineer alike
• You've worked directly with sustainability or technical stakeholders at enterprise companies to build trust and solve complex problems
• You can tell a compelling story with data, from raw numbers to insight to recommendation
• Willingness to travel onsite to customers up to 25% of the time
• Minimum of 6 years in a technical or customer-facing role, ideally both
• Proficiency in sustainability or supply chain topics
• You're energized by ambiguity and fast iteration. This is an incubation team and things will change.
• You connect the dots between technical possibilities and real-world impact
• Must be willing to work from an office 4 days per week (except for remote roles)

Responsibilities

• Embed directly with product and engineering teams and customers to drive adoption and success of Product Footprints through beta, and GA stages
• Co-develop agent skills, prompts, and workflows that unlock new use cases and help customers bring more of their sustainability work into Watershed
• Build AI-assisted scripts and prototypes that solve novel sustainability problems and demonstrate their value for customers
• Work directly alongside our account teams and our customers: joining calls, embedding in their workflows, running experiments, and building trust as a partner
• Close the feedback loop between customers and product by identifying what's working, what isn't, and what to build next
• Partner with Customer Org leaders to package use cases, learnings, and playbooks so that what works in the field can scale across customer-facing teams

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees