Senior product manager, datasets & objects

Watershed Technology, Inc

$120K — $160K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of PM experience in B2B SaaS, data platforms, BI tools, or developer APIs, preferably in fast-growing startups.
  • Experience shipping AI-powered features or prototyping with LLMs, showcasing hands-on understanding of AI's impact.
  • Strong understanding of data platform PM principles, including schema design and query performance.
  • Capability to engage deeply with customers, transitioning between technical and strategic discussions.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity and develop clear product visions from conflicting feedback.
  • Excellent communication skills for creating clear, concise documentation and presentations.

Responsibilities

  • Own the product roadmap, focusing on vision, strategy, and metrics for BI, schema design, and AI insights.
  • Lead the development and shipping of AI-native features like natural-language search and automated anomaly detection.
  • Create BI-grade data primitives that enable advanced analytical work within the platform.
  • Enhance data discoverability through schema catalogs, data dictionaries, and usage analytics.
  • Resolve the tension between flexibility and rigor in schema design, ensuring interoperability.
  • Ensure data correctness and platform scalability by addressing schema debt and performance issues.
  • Collaborate across departments like Sales and Customer Success to effectively implement new capabilities.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on AI-driven climate solutions at scale.
  • Location in vibrant New York City, fostering collaboration.
  • Engagement in a dynamic, growth-focused startup environment.
  • Inclusive company culture with opportunities for professional development.
  • Flexible remote work options for specific roles.
Full Job Description
The role
The role

Watershed customers have poured years of operational and emissions data into our platform, but the insights they can glean from it are limited. AI totally upends what is possible, and we're looking for a PM to figure it out.

You'll PM the team turning Watershed's data layer into an intelligence platform: BI-grade querying, AI-powered discovery and analysis, and the schema architecture underneath it all. The goal is for customers to get answers inside Watershed-not export to Excel.

This is a hands-on, deeply technical, cross-functional PM role. You'll partner with engineering, climate science, and go-to-market to decide what we build, why it matters, and how we ship it.

You will
  • Own the product roadmap: vision, strategy, and metrics for BI capabilities, data discoverability, schema design, and AI-powered insights.
  • Ship AI-native features: natural-language search over datasets, automated anomaly detection, AI-assisted analysis ("why did Scope 3 spike in Q3?"), and proactive recommendations-using LLMs to unlock insights that were previously only accessible to power users.
  • Build BI-grade primitives: tables as first-class objects, joins, calculated columns, pivots-so customers can do real analytical work without leaving the platform.
  • Make data discoverable: schema catalogs, data dictionaries, and usage analytics so customers always know what they have and how to use it.
  • Solve the flexibility-vs-rigor tension: design interoperability between canonical (methodology-backed) and custom (user-defined) schemas.
  • Drive correctness and scale: clean up schema debt, ensure auditability, and make the platform fast enough for real analysis.
  • Partner across the org: align with Sales, CS, Sustainability Advisors, and other product teams to land new capabilities successfully.
You might be a fit if you
  • Have 5+ years of PM experience in B2B SaaS, shipping data platforms, BI tools, or developer-facing APIs-ideally at high-growth startups.
  • Have already built with AI: you've shipped AI-powered features or prototyped with LLMs, not just talked about it. You have hands-on intuition for what works, what hallucinates, and where AI genuinely changes the product.
  • Think like a data platform PM: schema design, query performance, flexibility vs. structure-you have opinions and scars.
  • Go deep with customers: you can spend a morning in SQL notebooks, then jump on a call to map a CSO's workflow.
  • Thrive in ambiguity: you turn fuzzy, conflicting inputs into a clear product vision.
  • Communicate with precision: one-pagers, API docs, roadmap presentations-you make complex ideas simple.
Location

This role is based in New York City. We believe colocated time accelerates collaboration for platform-level challenges.

If you want to build the AI-powered data layer behind climate action at scale, we'd love to meet you.

Must be willing to work from an office 4 days per week (except for remote roles)

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.

What's the interview process like?

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.

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