Sr. Product Manager
Novisto · Novisto is a SaaS platform for environmental, social, governance data, management, and reporting.
Montreal or Toronto51-100 employeesPosted 15 days ago
Private Equityraised 5 months agoled by La Caisse, Inovia Capital, Portage Ventures
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<p>Carbon is Novisto's broadest and most technically demanding product area — spanning Corporate Carbon Accounting (including Scope 3), Financed Emissions, Product Carbon Footprint, and Decarbonisation. It's also the area under the most active evolution: extended through partnership and acquisition, expected to incorporate AI capabilities as a baseline market expectation, and held to audit-grade standards of accuracy and traceability by the regulations it serves.</p>
<p>This role owns product outcomes across that full suite. It's a broad, technically deep, customer-facing remit that calls for a PM who can move fluidly across multiple product lines, hold real domain and regulatory complexity, and operate with the rigor an audit-ready product demands — while raising the bar for the wider team's product practice in the process.</p>
<h3><strong><br>The Opportunity</strong></h3>
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<li>Full ownership of a multi-product suite — not a single feature or workstream — requiring strong prioritisation and comfort with constant context-switching across genuinely different problem spaces.</li>
<li>A build/partner/acquire execution model: some capability is built in-house, some delivered through partners, some inherited through acquisition — this PM works across all three, not just one.</li>
<li>Direct customer exposure at a strategic level: roadmap and strategy presentations, live requirements conversations, and escalations, with real commercial and reputational stakes attached to accuracy and delivery.</li>
<li>Product evolution into AI-enabled capability as the suite matures, rather than steady-state maintenance of a settled product.</li>
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<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Your responsibilities will include:</strong></span><br><br><strong><br></strong><strong><em>Own outcomes across the Carbon suite<br></em></strong></h3>
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<li>Hold end-to-end product accountability across Corporate Carbon Accounting (incl. Scope 3), Financed Emissions, Product Carbon Footprint, and Decarbonisation as one connected remit.</li>
<li>Prioritise ruthlessly across competing, genuinely different problem spaces, making trade-offs that are legible to engineering, leadership, and customers.</li>
<li>Build sufficient domain depth in each area to drive solutions forward independently, rather than waiting for fully-specified requirements from customers or SMEs.</li>
<li>Be accountable for measurable product outcomes — adoption, retention, delivery against commercial commitments — not just features shipped.</li>
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<h4><em>Operate a build/partner/acquire model</em></h4>
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<li>Work directly with external partners to define scope, resolve product gaps, and manage the product-level relationship as capability is delivered through partnership rather than built in-house.</li>
<li>Assess and integrate acquired or partnered capability into a coherent product experience, rather than treating it as a bolt-on.</li>
<li>Bring enough commercial fluency to input into build-vs-buy-vs-partner decisions and hold your own on partner terms that affect the product — SLAs, data rights, and roadmap influence.</li>
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<p><strong><em>Bring audit-grade rigor to everything you ship</em></strong></p>
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<li>Treat reporting rules and regulatory requirements as first-order product constraints, not compliance overhead layered on afterwards.</li>
<li>Apply meaningful attention to detail across validation logic, edge cases, and UX — the standard our live customer integrations have already shown gets tested in production.</li>
<li>Track evolving disclosure requirements as an active input to roadmap decisions, not a background concern.</li>
<li>Translate genuinely technical, regulation-driven requirements into decisions engineering can build against with confidence.</li>
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<p><strong><em>Run modern discovery and delivery practice</em></strong></p>
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<li>Lead discovery — customer interviews, problem framing, prototyping with UX/UI — rather than working from a pre-built backlog.</li>
<li>Partner closely with Engineering on solution design to the degree the problem demands, while creating enough space for the team to own how problems get solved.</li>
<li>Operate in the spirit of empowered product teams: outcome-driven, discovery-led, and evidence-based, even where the wider organisation's process isn't fully there yet.</li>
<li>Design within a shared platform architecture and design system, balancing Carbon-specific needs against platform-wide consistency and reuse.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong><em>Evolve the product with AI</em></strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Identify where AI capability should be embedded in the Carbon suite as it becomes a baseline market expectation rather than a differentiator.</li>
<li>Bring genuine curiosity and hands-on experimentation with AI tools into your own process, and use them to accelerate discovery, delivery, and product quality.</li>
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<p><strong><em>Be the face of Carbon to customers</em></strong></p>
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<li>Lead strategy and roadmap conversations directly with customers, including senior stakeholders.</li>
<li>Take ownership of live customer feedback, requirements, and escalations — this is a highly customer-facing role with no back office to hide in.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong><em>Work across the business</em></strong></p>
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<li>Partner effectively with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, domain specialists in Carbon/ESG, and Engineering to move decisions forward, especially where formal process is still forming.</li>
<li>Raise the bar for product craft on the wider team through example — rigorous requirements, sharp trade-off framing, and disciplined discovery — even without formal management responsibility.</li>
<li>Use data — usage, adoption, feedback, delivery — to inform prioritisation and defend decisions, rather than relying on the loudest voice in the room.</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong><br>What We're Looking For</strong></h3>
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<li>Significant experience as a Senior or Principal Product Manager in B2B SaaS, ideally at scale-up stage, with a track record of owning outcomes across more than one product line or workstream concurrently.</li>
<li>Demonstrated comfort operating in a technical, rules-heavy, or regulated domain — someone who has shipped product where correctness, traceability, and audit-readiness were real constraints, not necessarily carbon-specific.</li>
<li>Strong, current evidence of modern PM practice: discovery-led, outcome-oriented, and comfortable working in (even if not formally practising) an empowered product team model.</li>
<li>Experience running discovery with UX/UI Designers — prototyping, user journeys, and translating ambiguous problems into testable solutions.</li>
<li>Confident, senior-level customer-facing skills: strategy and roadmap presentations, handling feedback and escalations directly, and holding your own with technical and non-technical stakeholders alike.</li>
<li>A genuine data-informed approach to decision-making.</li>
<li>Excellent written and verbal communication, calibrated for both executive and highly technical audiences.</li>
<li>Willingness and enthusiasm to work with AI tooling across the product development lifecycle, even without direct prior experience.</li>
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<h3><strong>Nice to Have</strong></h3>
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<li>Direct domain knowledge in carbon accounting, ESG, or sustainability reporting (e.g. Scope 1/2/3, GHG Protocol, PCAF, CSRD/ESRS) — where present, there's a real opportunity to shape strategy in this space, not just execute against it.</li>
<li>Experience managing or shaping products delivered through partnership or white-label arrangements.</li>
<li>Hands-on experience with AI tooling in the product development lifecycle.</li>
<li>Familiarity with product operations practice — process design, tooling, and governance that scales a growing product organisation.</li>
<li>Experience in a company expanding its platform scope through partnership or acquisition, rather than organic build alone.</li>
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<h3><strong>What we offer</strong></h3>
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<li>Join an early-stage, well-financed company</li>
<li>Advance Novisto’s purpose of contributing to the sustainability of the economy, environment, and society by empowering companies to make better decisions and disclosures through our ESG data management software</li>
<li>Contribute your knowledge and insights to increase awareness and knowledge of sustainability</li>
<li>Flexible schedules & opportunity to work remotely</li>
<li>4 weeks vacation</li>
<li>Stock option plan</li>
<li>If you prefer to work at the office, we have a beautiful office in downtown Montreal easily accessible by Metro/REM</li>
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