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Benchmark Gensuite is seeking an experienced Product Manager to own the ESG and Sustainability product portfolio within their SaaS platform. You will translate product strategy, customer needs, market trends, and evolving sustainability reporting requirements into scalable product capabilities.
Key responsibilities include:
• Own the end-to-end product lifecycle for assigned ESG/Sustainability applications, including discovery, roadmap planning, development, release, and continuous improvement. Serve as the PMX subject-matter lead and maintain prioritized roadmaps and backlogs.
• Translate ESG and sustainability requirements into product specifications, user stories, workflows, calculations, business rules, and acceptance criteria. Apply working knowledge of frameworks such as GRI, ISSB, CSRD/ESRS, SASB, TCFD, CDP, and BRSR.
• Engage customers and internal stakeholders to understand sustainability challenges, workflows, and reporting requirements. Convert customer insights into scalable product capabilities and define user personas, journeys, business scenarios, and outcomes.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Design, Implementation, Solutions Advisory, Subscriber Success, and other product teams. Lead sprint planning, requirements development, workflow and mockup reviews, backlog refinement, and milestone tracking.
• Lead functionality reviews and end-user QA to ensure delivered capabilities meet requirements and customer expectations. Validate ESG calculations, reporting outputs, data lineage, permissions, and workflows for accuracy, consistency, traceability, and auditability.
• Apply AI-first and configurable-by-default principles throughout product development. Identify responsible AI opportunities to simplify sustainability data collection, analysis, validation, and reporting.
You will work closely with Engineering, Design, Sustainability SMEs, Implementation, Solutions Advisory, and Subscriber Success teams to lead initiatives from discovery through adoption.
REQUIREMENTS:
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Technology, Engineering, Environmental Science, Sustainability, or related discipline. Postgraduate qualifications or certifications in sustainability, ESG, product management, or related field are advantageous.
• 3–5 years of experience in product management, product ownership, business analysis, sustainability technology, or related role within an enterprise SaaS environment.
• Experience in sustainability reporting, ESG data management, EHS/ESG software, sustainability consulting, or corporate sustainability programs.
• Working knowledge of ESG reporting concepts, including materiality, emissions, environmental and social metrics, governance disclosures, data controls, and assurance readiness.
• Familiarity with sustainability frameworks such as GRI, ISSB, CSRD/ESRS, SASB, TCFD, CDP, or BRSR.
• Ability to translate complex sustainability, regulatory, reporting, and customer requirements into clear specifications and intuitive SaaS workflows.
• Proven ability to independently lead complex product initiatives from definition through release.
• Experience managing backlogs, developing roadmaps, writing user stories and acceptance criteria, and working in Agile environments.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, facilitation, and presentation skills, with attention to data accuracy and product quality.
• Ability to work effectively in a dynamic, cross-functional environment.
