Senior Product Manager, Methodology

Watershed • San Francisco, CA

9h • Onsite

About The Position

Watershed is the enterprise sustainability platform. Companies like Airbnb, Carlyle Group, FedEx, Visa, and Dr. Martens use Watershed to manage climate and ESG data, produce audit-ready metrics for voluntary and regulatory reporting including CSRD, and drive real decarbonization. We are looking for team members who love product-building, want to work hard at a mission-oriented startup, and will collaborate with us in shaping the culture of a growing team.
We have offices in San Francisco, New York, Denver, London, Paris, Berlin, Sydney, Mexico City, and remote team members across the US and Europe. We hope that you'll be interested in joining us!
The role
Product Managers at Watershed are the glue that unites engineering, design, climate science, and go‑to‑market under a single cohesive vision—and then ship it. This is a highly technical, hands‑on, and cross‑functional role: you will set direction for the Methodology team, which owns the standard methodologies, datasets, and developer tools that turn raw business data into auditable sustainability data.
No footprint is actually measured by counting atoms—every footprint relies on methodologies, emission factors, and reference datasets to translate activity data into emissions. Getting this right is what makes corporate sustainability reporting credible. Watershed centralizes that effort across hundreds of enterprises, and the Methodology team is the engine that keeps it accurate, current, and opinionated toward decarbonization.
You will partner with climate scientists, data engineers, verifiers, and standards bodies to decide what we build, why it matters, and how we deliver—with a relentless focus on scientific rigor, customer impact, and scale.

Requirements

• Have 5+ years of product management experience in enterprise SaaS, with a track record of shipping data products, datasets, or data platforms—ideally at high‑growth startups.
• Have experience working with open datasets, open‑source projects, or industry data alliances—you understand the dynamics of adopting, contributing to, and building on shared data infrastructure.
• Have managed external partnerships where you were the primary owner of the relationship, not just a stakeholder—bonus if those partnerships involved data providers, verifiers, auditors, or standards bodies.
• Have built products for enterprise customers and can navigate compliance, change‑management, and the messy realities of data quality at scale.
• Combine customer anthropology with data‑driven intuition: you can spend a day digging through emission factor databases or Python notebooks, then jump on a call to map a CSO’s reporting journey.
• Thrive in ambiguity and love turning fuzzy, conflicting inputs—from regulators, scientists, customers, and verifiers—into a clear, inspiring product vision.
• Communicate with precision: whether writing a methodology white paper, presenting a roadmap to leadership, or explaining a technical trade‑off to a customer, you articulate complex ideas simply and convincingly.

Nice To Haves

• You have direct experience in climate, sustainability, or environmental science—whether through a prior role, academic background, or deep personal interest.
• You’ve worked on products that involve regulatory or accounting standards and understand how standards shape product decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap for Watershed’s corporate methodology: define the vision, strategy, and north‑star metrics for our data artifacts that constitute methodology (ingestion templates, activity types, external source databases, reporting queries etc)
• Own verifier partnerships: source, negotiate, and manage relationships with third‑party verification and assurance providers, ensuring Watershed’s methodology earns external trust and meets evolving audit requirements.
• Navigate the open‑data and standards ecosystem: build and maintain relationships with open‑dataset providers, standards‑setting bodies, and industry alliances; evaluate when to adopt, contribute to, or build alternatives.
• Become an expert on the customer: sit with sustainability leads, data teams, and auditors to uncover pain points, validate hypotheses, and turn insights into product requirements.
• Design for correctness and auditability: work with climate scientists and data engineers to ensure methodologies are accurate, transparent, and defensible under regulatory scrutiny.
• Partner across the org: align roadmaps with Sales, Customer Success, Sustainability Advisors, Reporting, Supply Chain, and Finance teams so that methodology investments land successfully across every product surface.
• Leverage AI to do all of the above

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed