Director, Product Management - Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
Assent
Director, Product Management - Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
Assent is seeking a Director of Product Management for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap for its LCA capabilities. The role requires 10+ years of product management experience in B2B SaaS, 5+ years of leadership, and practical LCA knowledge. The position is based in Amsterdam and open to candidates in the Netherlands, UK, Germany, or North America.
Director, Product Management - Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
Assent is seeking a Director of Product Management for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap for its LCA capabilities. The role requires 10+ years of product management experience in B2B SaaS, 5+ years of leadership, and practical LCA knowledge. The position is based in Amsterdam and open to candidates in the Netherlands, UK, Germany, or North America.
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Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
Soft Skills
Key Responsibilities
- Define the LCA product portfolio strategy, objectives, and investment priorities in alignment with Assent’s corporate strategy, customer needs, and commercial growth objectives
- Own the success of Assent’s LCA solution, including customer value, adoption, commercial performance, methodological credibility, and integration with Assent’s broader platform
- Build strategic relationships with customers, LCA practitioners, consultants, data providers, and industry partners to generate market insight, anticipate emerging needs, validate product priorities, and help shape product strategy and roadmap decisions
- Ensure LCA capabilities provide appropriate calculation transparency, data lineage, source attribution, version control, quality indicators, and audit trails so that customers can understand and substantiate their results
- Provide product leadership across end-to-end delivery, partnering with Engineering and Quality Assurance to ensure releases are timely, high-quality, and aligned with customer needs, product strategy, and business objectives
- Define and monitor product success measures, including customer adoption, time to value, data coverage and quality, calculation completion, customer confidence, retention, expansion, and commercial performance
- Monitor relevant LCA standards, methodologies, regulatory requirements, and market developments; assess their implications and translate them into product strategy, data requirements, roadmap priorities, and scalable software capabilities
- Develop and evaluate business cases for LCA product investments using customer evidence, competitive analysis, data and methodology dependencies, delivery costs, commercial opportunities, and product risks
- In collaboration with Marketing, Sales and Customer Success, establish go-to-market strategy for new products, including pricing, positioning and growth plans
- Recruit, lead, coach, develop, and retain an engaged team of Product Managers, fostering accountability, continuous learning, and consistently strong performance
- Establish clear goals, operating processes, and accountability for team execution; monitor progress, manage risks, and address barriers to achieving objectives
- Lead evidence-based prioritization of product capabilities and build stakeholder alignment from discovery and validation through development, launch, adoption, and continuous improvement
- Establish and coach the team on consistent product management practices, including discovery, user research, experimentation, delivery, and release management