Director, Product Management - Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

About this role

This opportunity is open to candidates who are residing in the Netherlands, UK or Germany. Qualified candidates from North America could also be considered. The Director, Product Management – Life Cycle Assessment is responsible for the vision, strategy, roadmap, and business outcomes for Assent’s LCA capabilities. This leader translates customer needs, life cycle assessment methodologies, evolving standards, market opportunities, and technical constraints into scalable B2B SaaS solutions.

This individual will lead and develop a team of Product Managers and work closely with sustainability and LCA subject-matter experts, Engineering, Data, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success. The Director will ensure that product decisions balance scientific credibility, customer usability, technical feasibility, commercial value, and the transparency and traceability required for defensible environmental information.

This includes identifying opportunities to responsibly apply AI and machine learning to improve data collection, classification, calculation workflows, insight generation, and customer decision-making, while maintaining appropriate transparency, validation, human oversight, and scientific integrity. The successful candidate combines strong product leadership with practical LCA knowledge, enabling them to challenge methodology decisions and communicate credibly with practitioners and customers.

Key Requirements & 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 We strongly value your talent, energy and passion.