Global head of sustainability advisory

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!

Watershed is on a mission to drive meaningful climate action, and our Sustainability Advisory & Services organization plays a key role in enabling our customers to advance their sustainability programs. The Services organization includes four global teams that offer professional services to Watershed’s customers, including advisory on measurement, reporting, and decarbonization. Together, these teams help Watershed’s customers to adopt, utilize, and extract value from the Watershed platform.

As our Global Head of Sustainability Advisory, you’ll lead the team that acts as a trusted advisor to Watershed’s customers on post-measurement topics such as reporting, target-setting, and decarbonization. Your team is responsible for:

• Advising sustainability leaders at some of the world’s largest and most influential companies, including Walmart, BlackRock, and Fedex, on how to advance their sustainability programs and deliver business value.

• Developing new advisory, services, and internal resources by translating the latest sustainability trends and regulatory changes into actionable guidance that ensures our customers stay compliant and competitive.

• Partnering with Product & Engineering teams to help Watershed embed sustainability intelligence into cutting-edge new product offerings.

In this role, you will lead a globally distributed team of 11 advisors and 1 manager. You will set the team’s strategy, drive operational excellence, develop talented team members, and build the systems and culture to help the team achieve new levels of impact in our next phase of growth.

This role is based in New York City with regular travel (up to 15%) to our global offices.

Watershed has hub offices in San Francisco, New York, London, and Mexico City and satellite offices in Denver, Sydney, Paris, and Berlin. Where we have offices, employees are expected to be in office for 4 days per week. Certain jobs are open to being remote and will be specifically noted on the jobs page and in the job description if so.

It starts the same for every candidate: getting to know the team members through 1 to 2 conversations about Watershed, your experience, and your interests. Next steps can vary by role, but usual next steps are a skill or experience interview (e.g. a coding interview for an engineer, a portfolio review for a designer, deeper experience call for other roles) which leads to a virtual or in person interview panel. We prioritize transparency and lack of surprise throughout the process.

At Watershed, we are dedicated to ensuring an inclusive recruitment process. We provide reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities, long-term conditions, mental health needs, religious observances, neurodivergence, or pregnancy-related support requirements. If you need assistance during your process, please contact your recruiter.