Head of Product (Geospatial)

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 key to our current and future differentiation in carbon and adjacent markets. We deploy them to empower internal customers as well as serving external users directly. Starting with Sylvera’s world-leading proprietary biomass data we build data products, tools, and visualizations to unlock insights about carbon projects & beyond. An example of our day-to-day is monitoring deforestation, forest conservation, or reforestation by combining satellite imagery and our proprietary ground truth data collected via remote sensing.

Reporting to our VP Product, you will join at a critical juncture of our growth, ensuring we serve emerging external and internal needs leveraging our leading edge science, data and engineering competencies.

• Distill external and internal use cases and user pain points, assess our right to win, make build or buy decisions, ruthlessly prioritize and drive delivery of MVPs with measurable user and business impact
• Set ambitious goals to yourself and the team and craft sufficiently detailed plans to reach them
• Be the voice of the customer in shaping our science and data strategy to further differentiate our offering in the market
• Align and inspire the engineering and science geospatial teams around realising the impact of their work in real-world settings
• Collaborate across the organisation, in particular within Product, but also with Commercial and Marketing teams

• Is pragmatic, solutions-oriented and has a bias for action, comfortably dealing with change and adept at driving iterative improvements at speed
• Has at least 5 years’ worth of Product Management experience
• Knows geospatial data & products, e.g. familiar with building on or integrating raster data
• Has a track record of building customer-facing products and achieving customer-centric outcomes
• Comes with B2B Product experience, startup / scale-up experience is a plus
• Is commercially and externally minded - going a week without engaging directly with a user or prospect would be rare (while of course leveraging scalable feedback systems)
• Cares deeply about the climate and ecosystems of the earth

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.