About the role
About Watershed Watershed is the enterprise sustainability platform. Companies like Airbnb, Carlyle Group, FedEx, Visa, and Dr. Martens use Watershed to manage climate and ESG data, produce audit-ready metrics for voluntary and regulatory reporting including CSRD, and drive real decarbonization. We are looking for team members who love product-building, want to work hard at a mission-oriented startup, and will collaborate with us in shaping the culture of a growing team. We have offices in San Francisco, New York, Denver, London, Paris, Berlin, Sydney, Mexico City, and remote team members across the US and Europe. We hope that you'll be interested in joining us! The role The role Watershed is on a mission to help companies measure, reduce, remove, and report their emissions. Our success is defined by the success of our customers — we’re looking to bring on founding members of our Berlin Customer Success team to help our customers successfully embark on their climate journeys. Our Strategic Customer Success Managers (CSMs) own the relationship with our largest customers, helping them navigate the climate world,Watershed’s offerings, and their own organizations to accomplish their goals. CSMs dive deep with customers to understand their business and how to best support them on their climate journeys — leveraging the power of Watershed’s broader teams to accomplish this. This role requires both English and German language fluency. You will: Be responsible for the end-to-end experience of our customers Build trust with key stakeholders and Executives working with FTSE/DAX/CAC 40 companies. Help customers understand and use the product to achieve business outcomes; you'll onboard them onto the dashboard, equip them to gather the information they need about their carbon footprint, and will help them set and achieve their climate plans. Serve as the voice of the customer and provide internal feedback on how we can better serve customers to maximize value and retention; you’ll in turn also help customers understand the value Watershed delivers to their business. Be at the forefront of our product development: Your customers’ needs will often be the driving force for Watershed’s product direction – You’ll be a critical component in helpful us build and deliver product for these customers. Become deeply familiar with your customers’ businesses and climate — You'll educate your customers on the space and will help them hit milestones along their climate journey. To be successful in this role you: Will have relevant CSM experience, in a SaaS organisation. Have a track record of success building relationships, especially with strategic customers (10,000+ employees) at an executive level. Ask the right questions to understand people’s underlying needs and can work with sales, product, and services leadership to deliver on those. Have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. You have experience working in enterprise level customer-facing work. Are extremely organized — you're able to balance many moving pieces across the various customers in your portfolio, and have a proven project management track record. Enjoy learning new things. You’re excited by the challenge of learning a new space. Are excited to join a startup and are ready to take responsibility for building a function from the ground up. The role may include up to 10%+ travel. Must be willing to work from an office 4 days per week (except for remote roles) Watershed has hub offices in San Francisco, New York, London, and Mexico City and satellite offices in Denver, Sydney, Paris, and Berlin. Where we have offices, employees are expected to be in office for 4 days per week. Certain jobs are open to being remote and will be specifically noted on the jobs page and in the job description if so. What’s the interview process like? It starts the same for every candidate: getting to know the team members through 1 to 2 conversations about Watershed, your experience, and your interests. Next steps can vary by role, but usual next steps are a skill or experience interview (e.g. a coding interview for an engineer, a portfolio review for a designer, deeper experience call for other roles) which leads to a virtual or in person interview panel. We prioritize transparency and lack of surprise throughout the process. What if I need accommodations for my interview? At Watershed, we are dedicated to ensuring an inclusive recruitment process. We provide reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities, long-term conditions, mental health needs, religious observances, neurodivergence, or pregnancy-related support requirements. If you need assistance during your process, please contact your recruiter.