Product Manager (Deployment MRV Platform)

Company: Terradot
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: January 30, 2025

Job Description:

About Terradot:Our mission is to stabilize Earth's climate by transforming nature's most powerful permanent carbon removal process into a global climate solution. By advancing science, building technology, and assembling a global coalition, we are catalyzing a global initiative to scale Enhanced Rock Weathering within the next decade, starting in Brazil.Founded out of the Stanford University ecosystem, Terradot is led by the world's leading experts to advance the science and technology of ERW. Our unique structure bridges industry, academia, and government and allows our team to contribute with speed & scale. We have raised $58.2M in total funding from John Doerr, Sheryl Sandberg & Tom Bernthal, George Roberts, Microsoft's Climate Innovation Fund, Google, Cisco and Venture Funds, Floodgate, Kleiner Perkins, Acre Venture Partners, Gigascale Capital, Valor Capital, Ponderosa Ventures and others. We have sold -300,000 tons in offtakes from leading CDR buyers like Frontier and Google.All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Research suggests that qualified people from historically marginalized groups may self-select out of opportunities if they don't meet 100% of the job requirements. We encourage individuals who believe they have the skills necessary to thrive to apply for this role.About the Role:Terradot is hiring a Product Manager (Deployment MRV Platform). In this role, you'll play a critical part in building our cutting-edge Deployment Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) software platform, empowering scalable deployments to tackle carbon removal at unprecedented speed and scale. Join a team of world-class scientists and technologists where you will ship product that directly solves the planet's biggest challenge. This role is a key part of Terradot's Technology Team. You will work cross-functionally with operations, engineering, business, and science and work directly with the Co-Founder to shape the overall product vision.Responsibilities:

• You will help build and scale Terradot's Deployment MRV Platform that manages deployment operations and automates scientific processes and data collection to accelerate Terradot's global ERW deployments and help remove carbon at speed and scale. In the short term, ensure the platform effectively meets the needs of our deployment team, scientists, and partners, and in the longer term scale the platform for external partners globally.
• You will effectively balance Terradot's strategic goals for scalability, usability, and compliance with leading MRV (Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification) protocols.
• You will interface with the Deployment Operations team to gather real-time feedback from the Field and monitor post-launch performance to rapidly iterate for continuous improvement. You will work with our Engineering and Science teams to ensure the platform supports rigorous MRV processes and scales effectively.Background and Requirements:
  • 5+ years of Product Management experience, particularly in building and scaling software platforms in an early-stage startup environment with a track record of launching products from 0 to 1 and then scaling them.
  • Rock-solid technical background, with past hands-on experience in software development or engineering. Ideally, you have been a Software Engineer IC before/studied Computer Science in college/developed projects on the side.
  • Expertise in user-centric design, with a proven ability to meet and exceed the exact needs of users
  • Demonstrated experience managing the development of web applications, mobile applications, and data-intensive platforms, and an in-depth understanding of driving product development with agile methodologies.
  • Excellent communication skills, capable of translating user requirements and business goals into actionable product features and technical requirements
  • Experience working cross-functionally and collaborating with engineering, design, science, and operations teams
  • Eager to get your hands dirty! Whether it means driving a truck transporting feedstock or collecting soil samples yourself, you are obsessed with understanding the end user's needs and living in their shoes to build and ship better products.Nice to Haves:
    • PM Experience building cutting-edge software products in the physical world (e.g. in logistics, aerospace, construction) and/or in deeply scientific spaces (e.g. healthcare) that are data intensive
    • PM experience building cutting-edge software products in the CDR or AgTech space
    • You care deeply about climate change and feel a strong moral responsibility to act now. This extends into all facets of your life: both personal and professional. No action is too small and no goal too big. Whether you have turned vegan or swear by public transport, we are big believers in emrbacing sustainability as a mindset and would love to learn what this means for you!Personal Attributes:
      • Mission-driven, with a passion for addressing climate change.
      • Strategic thinker who can balance short-term needs with long-term vision.
      • Highly collaborative, with strong leadership skills and a hands-on approach to problem-solving.
      • Ability to navigate ambiguity and prioritize effectively in a fast-paced environment.
      • A positive, action-oriented mindset with a focus on outcomes.What does success look like in this role?
        • You ship product fast and speed up iteration cycles across the whole team making our operations more scalable, rigorous, and efficient.
        • You effectively prioritize and manage expectations across conflicting priorities from different stakeholders (e.g. balancing scientific rigor requirements from our Science Team with ease of use by our Ground Operation Team with Technical Feasibility from our Tech Team).
        • You advance our Deployment MRV Platform by balancing features that solve current problems while keeping a strategic perspective on how current features scale and address longer-term user and market needs.
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