# Senior Product Manager, Methodology

**Company:** [Watershed](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/watershed)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Product Management
**Salary:** $188k – $227k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, AI, Data Engineering, SaaS, Open Datasets, Partnership Management, Compliance, Regulatory Standards, Data Platforms, Emission Factors
**Posted:** 2026-03-07

> Leads the Methodology team to develop methodologies, datasets, and tools for accurate sustainability reporting. Partners with climate scientists, data engineers, verifiers, and standards bodies; requires 5+ years PM experience in enterprise SaaS data products.

## Job Description

## You will
- 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

## You might be a fit if you
- 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.

## Bonus points
- 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.

## Similar roles

- [Senior Product Manager](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/3180bfca-3622-455a-9798-205a682d73a5) - Hiya - Seattle, WA - $188k – $218k/yr
- [Senior Product Manager - Notebooks](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/cbacd7e9-af9a-41b4-8d37-0180949970fa) - Datadog - New York, NY - $187k – $240k/yr
- [Senior Product Manager - Data Agent](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/826c0271-d5c1-4ff6-8fbc-7c6ac5de391d) - Datadog - New York, NY - $187k – $253k/yr
- [Senior Product Manager - Serverless](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/68b8ee78-4cae-49eb-9e65-16695f78b468) - Datadog - Boston, MA - $187k – $240k/yr
- [Senior Product Manager, Observability & Monitoring](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/69201ca2-13e2-4075-b00b-6f5cb95b87a9) - Fivetran - Oakland, CA - $188k – $236k/yr

**Apply:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/dc90f56e-bbed-4665-9718-19b093a66051
**Canonical:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/dc90f56e-bbed-4665-9718-19b093a66051