Senior Product Manager, Methodology

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.