Senior Product Manager, Xpansiv
Market-infrastructure platform for environmental commodities
Job no longer available
Market-infrastructure platform for environmental commodities
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To unleash the power of global markets to deliver a world worthy of future generations.
Role
Who you are
- Computer Science Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in IT, Systems Administration, or related disciplines
- 5+ years as a product manager, preferably in a SaaS offering and/or the environmental, carbon, or ESG market spaces
- Proven track record of portfolio delivery, 2MM++
- Experience using Azure or Jira for Agile projects
- Experience in environmental registries is a plus
- MBA is a plus
- Experience in an IT role is a plus
- Certified in Agile is a plus
- Working knowledge of markup languages, HTML, CSS, SQL, and NoSQL is a plus
- Exceptional communications skills and client presence in a fast-paced environment
- Strong project management and analytical skills
- Excellent attention to detail and results-oriented
- Ability to communicate effectively with technology and business partners and to lead compromises between the two
- Ability to lead a portfolio of projects to success
- Ability to create user journeys, user stories, wireframes, and basic diagrams to convey ideas
- Forge trusted partnerships across the organization
What the job involves
- APX, an Xpansiv Company, is seeking a results-oriented product manager to lead and design software for applications that support environment registries, carbon registries, and ESG reporting markets
- Plan and execute initiatives for registry services which includes responsibilities such as scope facilitation, product specifications, and overall delivery to market
- Conceptualize and mature new software ideas into clear, actionable feature requests; this may require distilling a feature request into its underlying functionality in order to recommend the most fitting business and technical approach
- Collaborate as a leader with architecture and technical teams to structure priorities, allocate resources, communicate business concepts, and challenge implementation approaches as needed
- Document product specifications with highest degree of caliber, cataloging both functional and nonfunctional requirements
- Lead the engineering effort to market, from project inception and client-facing workshops through to status reports, UAT, and go-live efforts
- Evaluate the product portfolio from a software delivery perspective, with an emphasis on how to best sequence the pipeline
- Establish the success metrics of an initiative at project onset, relying on previous, proven work experiences and current-day research to garner consensus and alignment from cross- functional teams
- Maintain a general understanding or working knowledge of the IT systems and their connections
- Champion agile methodology and other standards or tools to gain efficiencies in product specification, UI/UX design, and project management
Our take
The market for carbon offsets and RECs is growing fast, with firms and businesses looking to trade to meet sustainability requirements and ESG goals. With the market currently fractured and somewhat murky, however, a wave of startups is emerging to establish a dominant exchange that’s both centralised and transparent. Xpansiv is one of them - and it’s gotten a strong headstart on the competition.
Xpansiv allows companies to trade environmental commodities including offsets, RECs, and differentiated fuels. The platform offers a range of marketplaces, alongside signal data, portfolio management capabilities, and global registries.
So it’s a comprehensive combination of exchanges, analytics, and tools. Its edge, however, comes from its extensive backing. It’s struck a long-term and hefty financing arrangement with Blackstone, the world’s largest private equity firm, and among its equity investors are BP, British Oil, Goldman Sachs and the Bank of America. This, in total, recently gave it a pre-IPO evaluation of over $1B.
With this top-tier industry involvement, Xpansiv looks set to net some major players. This will help Xpansiv establish itself as a leader in the emerging environmental and commodities exchange market.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jan 2023
$125m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Jul 2022
$400m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $703.7m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, vision
- 100% company paid life insurance
- 401(k) plan
- Annual bonus program
- Stock options
- Discretionary paid time off
- Paid parental leave
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Joe Madden
(Director)Originally worked as Director of National Sales at Transgroup Worldwide Logistics, before holding a number of senior roles (ultimately CEO) at EOS Climate.
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