Senior Technical Product Manager

Rocket Lab; London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Senior Technical Product Manager to drive geospatial product initiatives and enhance its offerings in the carbon credit market. The role involves collaboration across various teams to deliver impactful solutions, with a focus on climate and ecosystem protection. You will be expected to balance technical complexity with user needs and lead innovations in a hybrid working environment.

Benefits

Equity in a rapidly growing startup

Private Health Insurance and Life Assurance

Unlimited annual leave

Enhanced parental leave

Access to Mental Health support

Office bar tab once a month

Weekly drinks in the office

Catered lunch once a month in office

Monthly Deliveroo/equivalent allowance

Qualifications

• Product Management experience with a strong technical foundation.
• Experience building products with geospatial/raster data.
• Customer value-oriented and pragmatic.

Responsibilities

• Deliver both brownfield and greenfield geospatial product initiatives.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration between science, engineering, and stakeholders.
• Ensure alignment of roadmap and delivery with cross-functional teams.

Skills

Product Management

Stakeholder Management

Geospatial/Raster Data

User-Centric Design

Climate Knowledge

Education

Relevant degree in a related field

Job description

What is Sylvera anyway?

Sylvera provides trusted ratings, tools and data for carbon credits and CDR. Our mission is to incentivize investment in real climate action.

Purchasing carbon credits and CDR through the carbon markets is one of the most established and scalable ways to channel finance to effective climate solutions and work toward societal net zero. Unfortunately, the carbon markets were plagued with mistrust and a lack of effectiveness since they’ve emerged – until Sylvera.

To help organizations ensure they're making the most effective investments, Sylvera Trusted ratings, tools and data for carbon credits and CDR. Our data and software independently and accurately validates the impact of carbon projects that capture, remove, or avoid emission whether they are up and running, or in development. Our data and tools allow users to optimise both the climate and economic performance of projects as well as understand the past and future of the market. With Sylvera businesses, governments and developers can confidently invest in, benchmark, deliver, and report real climate impact.

Our team is made up of leading minds in climate change from scientists to policy, finance, and carbon market experts. We work in partnership with scientific organizations, universities, governments, and think tanks to develop and implement rigorous and holistic project assessment methodologies, leveraging the latest technology. We also partner with actors and institutions across the whole market to make data higher quality, more standard and more accessible. Founded in 2020, Sylvera has 130+ employees globally with offices in London, New York, Belgrade, and Singapore. We’ve raised over $96 million from leading investors like Fidelity, Balderton Capital, Index Ventures, and Insight Partners to date.

What will I be doing?

Sylvera’s geospatial capabilities are core to our product differentiation across carbon and adjacent markets. From forest monitoring to biomass estimation, we create data products, tools, and visualizations to extract insight from complex satellite and ground truth data.

As a Senior Technical Product Manager, you’ll report to the VP Product and take ownership of delivering both brownfield and greenfield geospatial product initiatives. You’ll lead cross-functional collaboration between science, engineering, commercial, and external stakeholders to bring high impact solutions to life.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Partnering with commercial and marketing to discover user pain points and validate potential solutions
• Translating external demand and internal use cases into a scoped, actionable product roadmap
• Ensuring alignment of roadmap and delivery with other cross-functional teams if and when needed
• Prioritising and delivering MVPs and scalable solutions that balance technical complexity and user impact
• Owning end-to-end how geospatial data is surfaced across Sylvera’s product suite (e.g. maps with biomass overlays x Ratings), balancing UX needs and (together with your Tech counterparts) technical aspects like ease-of-maintenance
• Ensuring repeatability and productisation of innovations we’re already delivering through Sylvera’s Climate Solutions to private sector and sovereign customers
• Shaping our geospatial strategy alongside science and engineering to keep us ahead of market trends

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has Product Management experience with a strong technical foundation
• Has experience building products with geospatial/raster data (e.g. remote sensing, Earth Observation, biomass)
• Is comfortable owning delivery in brownfield and greenfield environments alike
• Is customer value-oriented, pragmatic, iterative, and solution-focused with strong user instincts
• Has excellent stakeholder management skills
• Cares deeply about the climate and ecosystems of the earth
• Is a self-starter who thrives in constantly evolving environments, ideally with early-stage experience

We’d like someone highly ambitious, motivated and eager to propel their career forward. We prioritise grit, positivity, and the willingness to get stuck in, and encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match this job description

Benefits

- Equity in a rapidly growing startup

- Private Health Insurance and Life Assurance

- Unlimited annual leave

- Enhanced parental leave

- Access to Mental Health support via Spill

- Office bar tab once a month

- Weekly drinks in the office

- Catered lunch once a month in office

- Monthly Deliveroo/equivalent allowance once a month

Location

London, Old Street. We foster hybrid working and require you to physically attend all 1-2-1, retros and divisional meetings in person.

Our Values

Own it: We make new mistakes. We build on the momentum of our wins and reflect on and learn from our failures.

Stay curious: We keep our focus on the long-term, even if that means short-term challenges.

Do what’s right - even when it’s hard: We take a growth mindset to our work, our customers, our market and the opportunities ahead of us.

Collaborate and challenge with empathy: Our teams deliver through active collaboration. We invest in each others’ success and make the company stronger in the long-run.

Empower Customers: Make extraordinary efforts to exceed our customer expectations. If we’re serving our customers to the fullest, we can help direct more investment into real climate impact.

What if you’re a partial fit?

We prioritise grit, positivity, and the willingness to get stuck in, and encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match this job description.

Equal employment opportunity

Sylvera is an equal opportunity employer: we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.