Digital Product Owner, South Pole
Climate solutions provider
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Climate solutions provider
501-1000 employees
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501-1000 employees
Company mission
To deliver climate impact at scale.
Role
Who you are
- Strong Project, Program or Product Management expertise in innovation, digital or tech roles; 15+ work experience of which 10+ in project/product management
- Proven Track Record: Experience owning a complex digital product end-to-end (e.g., B2B SaaS, internal workflow platforms, or large-scale data products) from ideation through adoption
- Agile Expertise: Fluent in agile delivery methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) and proficient with product management tooling (Jira, Confluence, DevOps)
- Data & Financial Literacy: Strong grasp of data infrastructure/BI tools (SQL, PowerBI, Snowflake, or Databricks) and experience building financial models to justify technology investments
- Domain Alignment: A background or strong affinity with sustainability, carbon markets, remote sensing, field data acquisition, or digital MRV (Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification) platforms is a major advantage
- Stakeholder Alignment: Exceptional stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence, persuade, and guide senior executives and diverse engineering teams without formal authority
- Navigating Ambiguity: Highly independent, comfortable with uncertainty, and capable of taking decisive action to resolve ambiguity at early innovation stages
- Storytelling & Vision: Ability to absorb complex, deeply technical or scientific topics and synthesize them into an inspirational, clear vision that teams want to rally behind
- Organizational Sensitivity: High emotional intelligence and cultural awareness when working across cross-functional, highly distributed global teams
What the job involves
- As the Digital Product Owner you will sit at the intersection of business strategy, digital transformation, and agile execution within the Certificates Business Line
- You will own ProjectOS—South Pole's core internal platform for developing and delivering carbon credits—end-to-end, alongside a broader portfolio of digital innovation projects
- Your mission is to digitize, automate, and dramatically enhance the quality and time-to-delivery of carbon credits, Environmental Attribute Certificates (EACs), and complementary services. Leading cross-functional distributed teams and managing strategic external tech partners, you will turn the workflows and pain points of upstream project development into scalable digital features
- You will balance long-term innovation strategy with day-to-day agile product delivery, ensuring South Pole remains a competitive market leader
- Own ProjectOS End-to-End: Define, maintain, and champion the multi-quarter vision, strategy, and roadmap for ProjectOS, aligning it tightly with overarching company strategy and revenue streams
- Strategic Prioritization: Make and defend critical prioritization calls, sequence releases, and manage senior stakeholder buy-in on product direction. Decide ruthlessly what not to build
- Portfolio Management: Develop and maintain a holistic portfolio of innovation projects that support current and future product-development requirements
- Workflow Discovery: Spend time with project development and delivery teams globally to deeply understand workflows, pain points, and unmet needs
- Analytical Translation: Translate complex user needs and market developments into clear user epics, stories, and rigorous acceptance criteria. Act as the primary bridge between business users and engineering teams
- Backlog Management: Own and prioritize the product backlog. Drive the agile cadence (grooming, sprint planning, scope management, and risk mitigation) in close partnership with technical dev teams and external partners
- Value-Driven Decisions: Tie all roadmap decisions to sound financial value cases (e.g., calculating ROI, NPV for custom or SaaS digital tech). Track investment spend (CAPEX/OPEX) against delivered value
- Data Governance: Act as the primary Data Owner for the data domains ProjectOS touches. Partner with the Global Digital Business Services team to ensure data quality, lineage, and robust master data management
- Metrics & Adoption: Define and instrument product KPIs. Drive real user adoption and enablement loops rather than just focusing on feature deployment
- Vendor Procurement: Continuously monitor the global digital landscape for products and providers (sensors, mobile apps, remote sensing/GIS, digital MRV platforms, and AI). Evaluate build-vs-buy decisions and manage partner relationships
- People Leadership: Formally manage and develop a global team of senior specialists within the GIS and Remote Sensing domain, integrating their specialized expertise directly into the platform ecosystem
Our take
South Pole is a Zurich-based climate solutions provider making real strides in the global push for Net Zero. Founded in 2006, the company takes a hands-on, action-first approach, unlike traditional consultancies, SOuth Pole joins projects after they're greenlit, focusing on implementing tangible climate solutions rather than just advising on them. This model has made it a key player in the green transition, turning climate ambitions into real outcomes.
Working across emission reduction, climate, and environmental protection, South Pole partners with companies to help create ways to lower their carbon emissions. The founders are experienced in the industry too, with many having met at the MyClimate foundation whilst others are renowned entrepreneurs. This coalition of capital and climate knowledge has helped South Pole become a unicorn company.
While some players in the space struggle to deliver results, SOuth Pole has built a strong track record. From partnering with Canadian delivery company Sendle to roll out carbon-neutral shipping, to developing impactful sustainability initiatives with global giants like Nestlé and UBS.
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Insights
31% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Work-life balance: From flexible working hours to flexible workplace (home office), with above-average vacation allowances, we strive to make the work and family life puzzle an easy one for our employees
- Flexible Vacation Benefits: Options to buy up to 5 extra days of time off
- Life Insurance: Available to all employees across the world
- Care for your Wellbeing: Access to mental, physical and financial wellbeing support through our Employee Assistance Program (TELUS Health)
- Parental Leave: Should any of our employees need to take time off the Iceberg as a result of a new addition to their household, we are happy to be able to offer competitive Paid Parental leave to support them during this time
- Compassionate Leave: Sometimes life is unpredictable, and when unfortunate events occur, we want to give you peace of mind so you feel fully supported during this time
Company HQ
Escher Wyss, Zürich, ZH
Leadership
Daniel Klier
(CEO)Daniel joine dSOuth Pole in 2024 as CEO. Prior to this, they were the CEO of ESG Book. They also spent almost 8 years at HSBC as the Group Head of Strategy and as the Global Head of Sustainable Finance and Group General Manager.
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