Staff Product Manager (Marketplace)

Climate X is seeking a Staff Product Manager (Marketplace) to lead their product portfolio and strategy in climate risk management. The role involves executing marketplace strategies, ensuring compliance with financial services, and influencing product direction. Candidates should have extensive product management experience, particularly in marketplace dynamics. The position is remote, allowing work from anywhere, as Climate X has physical offices in London and New York City.
About us

Climate X is a purpose-driven technology company, backed by GV (Google Ventures), Western Technologies (early investors in Meta, Google, Palantir), Commerz Ventures, Pale Blue Dot, Deloitte, and other world-class investors. We’re a wonderfully diverse, growing team with physical offices in London and New York City.

Demand for Climate X is growing fast, and we need to build our team! You’ll be at the front of a nascent industry, working as part of a fantastic and diverse team, doing things that you can be proud of. We’re excited to have the opportunity to speak with you during this process.

Our mission

To deepen the understanding of our changing planet and inspire meaningful action.

What we do
• We’re helping the world become more resilient to the impacts of physical climate risks (including floods, fires, storms and more). In doing so, we help drive positive global impact aligned to many of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s).
• Our team builds cutting-edge, peer-reviewed science (incorporating climate projections, remote sensing data) and translates that into financial impacts (to the value of assets or business disruption linked to failure of critical infrastructure) that our customers in the financial services industry use to identify, manage and mitigate those risks.
• Climate X’s customers include the world’s largest banks, asset managers and insurance companies including CBRE, Standard Chartered, Goldman Sachs, CHUBB, as well as a partnership ecosystem that includes Deloitte, Capgemini and AWS. Combined, they manage over $6.5 trillion of assets.
• Customer’s choose us thanks to our ecosystem of products that help solve real human problems, and drive tangible business benefits to our customers. They love our customer-centric mindset, as well as our pace of innovation in the market.

The impact you’ll own

We're seeking a Staff Product Manager with deep marketplace and, ideally, financial services experience to lead our product portfolio and ecosystem strategy. This role will shape the future of climate risk management by building and scaling our marketplace offerings while ensuring alignment with financial services requirements and regulations.
• Marketplace Strategy Execution: Define and execute the vision for our climate risk marketplace, including supply-side and demand-side strategies, pricing models, and network effects optimization. Drive platform adoption and engagement across multiple user segments.
• Financial Services Excellence: Leverage deep understanding of financial services workflows, compliance requirements, and risk frameworks to ensure our products meet the sophisticated needs of banking, insurance, and asset management clients.
• Strategic Vision & Leadership: Lead the long-term product vision across our marketplace and core products, aligning with regulatory requirements and market opportunities. Influence executive-level decisions on product direction and resource allocation.
• Technical Architecture & Innovation: Partner with engineering leadership to make critical architectural decisions that enable marketplace scalability and meet financial services security and compliance requirements.

Essential Skills
• Extensive product management experience, leading marketplace or platform products at scale.
• Expert understanding of marketplace dynamics, network effects, and platform economics.
• Experience with financial services compliance requirements, risk frameworks, and regulatory environments.

Desirable Skills
• Track record working with financial services or fintech, with deep understanding of banking, insurance, or asset management workflows and requirements.
• Knowledge or deep interest in climate change impacts and adaptation strategies, especially in the context of financial and operational risk.
• Experience developing or managing financial services products or applications, especially in risk assessment.
• Knowledge of geospatial data platforms, GIS, or mapping tools.
• Hands-on experience with agile methodologies and tools.

Benefits

🌍 Contribute to a business making purposeful impact related to climate change

💡 Monthly training & conference budget to help you upskill and develop your career (£1,000 per year)

📈 6 monthly appraisals and 12 monthly pay reviews

💰 Pension contribution scheme

🏡 Flexible hours and hybrid working (3 days/week in office; core hours 10am-4pm)

🏥 Mental Health and Wellbeing support via Oliva

🏖 25 days holiday, plus Bank Holidays, annual 3-day Christmas-closure, and half day on your birthday (36.5 days total!)

🏏 Optional quarterly socials, dinners, and fun nights out

🥐 A fully stocked supply of snacks, fruit, and refreshments for the days when you are in the office

🚴 Cycle to work scheme via gogeta

🍼 Enhanced maternity and paternity

🐶 Pawternity

🐕 Dog friendly office (official residence of Alfie, Chief Mischief Officer)

Equal Opportunities

Climate X are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds.