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Workiva is seeking a strategic, collaborative Director of Product Management to lead our product vision, scale our core sustainability solutions, and guide emerging AI/ML initiatives. In this role, you will lead a dedicated team of product managers while partnering with Engineering, UX/Design, and Go-To-Market teams to deliver mission-critical reporting capabilities for CFOs, Chief Sustainability Officers (CSOs), ESG controllers, and Risk leaders worldwide.
Our platform serves as the single source of truth for enterprise trust and transparency. We are seeking a leader who can translate evolving global sustainability regulations into intuitive, audit-ready workflows while operationalizing pragmatic AI capabilities—including agentic workflows and automated disclosures—to reduce manual operational burdens for global enterprises.
What You’ll Do
Product Strategy and Roadmap
- Customer-Centric Vision: Serve as the strategic voice of sustainability stakeholders—including CFOs, CSOs, and ESG controllers—translating complex reporting workflows into a cohesive, high-impact product roadmap
- Strategic AI Integration: Direct the roadmap for agentic AI and predictive insights across the sustainability suite, delivering automated disclosures, audit-ready anomaly detection, and actionable intelligence
- Market-Aligned Prioritization: Track emerging ESG mandates and regulatory developments globally (e.g., CSRD, SEC climate disclosure rules, ISSB) to identify market opportunities, reduce churn, and drive user retention
- Platform Alignment: Ensure all sustainability capabilities integrate seamlessly with Workiva’s core architecture and uphold our "Single Source of Truth" data model
Product Development and Management
- People Leadership & Culture: Build, mentor, and advocate for a high-performing team of Product Managers, fostering an inclusive environment of continuous learning and AI-enabled product workflows
- Lifecycle Ownership: Oversee end-to-end product execution from discovery to scaled release, partnering with Engineering and UX to deliver high-quality, reliable enterprise features on schedule
- Data-Informed Continuous Discovery: Embed qualitative user research and quantitative metrics into every stage of development, measuring success through adoption, retention, CSAT, and customer time-to-value
- Execution Against Growth Targets: Translate overarching enterprise strategy into rigorous, measurable product outcomes aligned with multi-year growth objectives
Stakeholder Collaboration
- Cross-Functional Partnering: Foster deep collaboration between product teams and Go-To-Market partners (Solution Engineering, Consulting, Sales, and Product Marketing) to ensure effective commercialization and enablement
- Executive & Architectural Alignment: Partner with senior leaders across Product, Engineering, and Design to synthesize complex regulatory, technical, and business constraints into actionable product plans
- Unified Go-To-Market Alignment: Co-design launch strategies, messaging, and customer-feedback feedback loops in partnership with Product Marketing and Customer Success
What You’ll Need
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years of experience in product management or related technical field, OR an advanced degree with 8+ years of experience
- 4+ years of experience directly managing, mentoring, and developing Product Managers within an enterprise B2B SaaS environment
- Demonstrated multi-year experience delivering enterprise SaaS products from discovery through scale, specifically managing complex data-driven capabilities, workflow automation, or analytics platform. Exceptional executive communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate technical trade-offs to both C-level buyers and engineering teams
Preferred Qualifications
- Product leadership experience within FinTech, RegTech, ERP systems, or compliance-heavy environments handling complex regulatory reporting
- Domain knowledge in corporate sustainability reporting frameworks (e.g., CSRD, SEC climate rules, ISSB, GHG Protocol)
- Proven track record of operationalizing Generative AI, LLMs, or agentic workflow automations in a live enterprise product
- Practical understanding of the trade-offs inherent in AI features, including latency, cost-to-serve, context window limitations, and output verification/explainability
- Experience navigating "0 to 1" product buildouts within an established enterprise SaaS organization Experience with usage-based packaging, seat tiers, or value-based monetization models
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Working Conditions & Travel Requirements
- Ability to travel up to 25% for customer engagements, team offsites, and key industry events. Reliable broadband internet connection when operating remotely outside a Workiva physical office.
How You’ll Be Rewarded
✅ Salary range in the US: $177,000.00 - $290,000.00✅ A discretionary bonus typically paid annually
✅ Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire
✅ 401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits package
The salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this job in the US. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience and other relevant factors.
Why Join Workiva
Workiva is the platform designed to bring confidence, control, and a competitive edge to the world’s most complex organizations. Our AI-powered platform unifies finance, risk, and sustainability on a single, secure foundation—ensuring data is trusted, traceable, and ready to act on. With an unbroken path from source to output, leaders gain confidence in their numbers, visibility into current and emerging risks, and the ability to move with speed and precision in a constantly changing world.
At Workiva, you’ll bring technology to market that executives, boards, and regulators depend on. The work you do here helps organizations navigate uncertainty, maintain trust, and make decisions that stand up to scrutiny. If you’re energized by meaningful challenges, inspired by collaborative teams, and motivated to help organizations turn uncertainty into advantage, we’d love to meet you.
Employment decisions are made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other protected characteristic.
Workiva is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. To request assistance with the application process, please email talentacquisition@workiva.com .
Workiva employees are required to undergo comprehensive security and privacy training tailored to their roles, ensuring adherence to company policies and regulatory standards.
Workiva supports employees in working where they work best - either from an office or remotely from any location within their country of employment.
#LI-LP1Workiva is seeking a strategic, collaborative Director of Product Management to lead our product vision, scale our core sustainability solutions, and guide emerging AI/ML initiatives. In this role, you will lead a dedicated team of product managers while partnering with Engineering, UX/Design, and Go-To-Market teams to deliver mission-critical reporting capabilities for CFOs, Chief Sustainability Officers (CSOs), ESG controllers, and Risk leaders worldwide.
Our platform serves as the single source of truth for enterprise trust and transparency. We are seeking a leader who can translate evolving global sustainability regulations into intuitive, audit-ready workflows while operationalizing pragmatic AI capabilities—including agentic workflows and automated disclosures—to reduce manual operational burdens for global enterprises.
What You’ll Do
Product Strategy and Roadmap
- Customer-Centric Vision: Serve as the strategic voice of sustainability stakeholders—including CFOs, CSOs, and ESG controllers—translating complex reporting workflows into a cohesive, high-impact product roadmap
- Strategic AI Integration: Direct the roadmap for agentic AI and predictive insights across the sustainability suite, delivering automated disclosures, audit-ready anomaly detection, and actionable intelligence
- Market-Aligned Prioritization: Track emerging ESG mandates and regulatory developments globally (e.g., CSRD, SEC climate disclosure rules, ISSB) to identify market opportunities, reduce churn, and drive user retention
- Platform Alignment: Ensure all sustainability capabilities integrate seamlessly with Workiva’s core architecture and uphold our "Single Source of Truth" data model
Product Development and Management
- People Leadership & Culture: Build, mentor, and advocate for a high-performing team of Product Managers, fostering an inclusive environment of continuous learning and AI-enabled product workflows
- Lifecycle Ownership: Oversee end-to-end product execution from discovery to scaled release, partnering with Engineering and UX to deliver high-quality, reliable enterprise features on schedule
- Data-Informed Continuous Discovery: Embed qualitative user research and quantitative metrics into every stage of development, measuring success through adoption, retention, CSAT, and customer time-to-value
- Execution Against Growth Targets: Translate overarching enterprise strategy into rigorous, measurable product outcomes aligned with multi-year growth objectives
Stakeholder Collaboration
- Cross-Functional Partnering: Foster deep collaboration between product teams and Go-To-Market partners (Solution Engineering, Consulting, Sales, and Product Marketing) to ensure effective commercialization and enablement
- Executive & Architectural Alignment: Partner with senior leaders across Product, Engineering, and Design to synthesize complex regulatory, technical, and business constraints into actionable product plans
- Unified Go-To-Market Alignment: Co-design launch strategies, messaging, and customer-feedback feedback loops in partnership with Product Marketing and Customer Success
What You’ll Need
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years of experience in product management or related technical field, OR an advanced degree with 8+ years of experience
- 4+ years of experience directly managing, mentoring, and developing Product Managers within an enterprise B2B SaaS environment
- Demonstrated multi-year experience delivering enterprise SaaS products from discovery through scale, specifically managing complex data-driven capabilities, workflow automation, or analytics platform. Exceptional executive communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate technical trade-offs to both C-level buyers and engineering teams
Preferred Qualifications
- Product leadership experience within FinTech, RegTech, ERP systems, or compliance-heavy environments handling complex regulatory reporting
- Domain knowledge in corporate sustainability reporting frameworks (e.g., CSRD, SEC climate rules, ISSB, GHG Protocol)
- Proven track record of operationalizing Generative AI, LLMs, or agentic workflow automations in a live enterprise product
- Practical understanding of the trade-offs inherent in AI features, including latency, cost-to-serve, context window limitations, and output verification/explainability
- Experience navigating "0 to 1" product buildouts within an established enterprise SaaS organization Experience with usage-based packaging, seat tiers, or value-based monetization models
-
Working Conditions & Travel Requirements
- Ability to travel up to 25% for customer engagements, team offsites, and key industry events. Reliable broadband internet connection when operating remotely outside a Workiva physical office.
How You’ll Be Rewarded
✅ Salary range in the US: $177,000.00 - $290,000.00✅ A discretionary bonus typically paid annually
✅ Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire
✅ 401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits package
The salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this job in the US. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience and other relevant factors.
Why Join Workiva
Workiva is the platform designed to bring confidence, control, and a competitive edge to the world’s most complex organizations. Our AI-powered platform unifies finance, risk, and sustainability on a single, secure foundation—ensuring data is trusted, traceable, and ready to act on. With an unbroken path from source to output, leaders gain confidence in their numbers, visibility into current and emerging risks, and the ability to move with speed and precision in a constantly changing world.
At Workiva, you’ll bring technology to market that executives, boards, and regulators depend on. The work you do here helps organizations navigate uncertainty, maintain trust, and make decisions that stand up to scrutiny. If you’re energized by meaningful challenges, inspired by collaborative teams, and motivated to help organizations turn uncertainty into advantage, we’d love to meet you.
Employment decisions are made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other protected characteristic.
Workiva is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. To request assistance with the application process, please email talentacquisition@workiva.com .
Workiva employees are required to undergo comprehensive security and privacy training tailored to their roles, ensuring adherence to company policies and regulatory standards.
Workiva supports employees in working where they work best - either from an office or remotely from any location within their country of employment.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in director of sustainability jobs.
- 7 or more years of progressive experience in sustainability, ESG, or environmental management
- Deep knowledge of ESG reporting frameworks including GRI, TCFD, SASB, or CDP
- Experience developing and executing corporate sustainability or net-zero strategies
- Bachelor's degree in environmental science, sustainability, engineering, or a related field
- Proficiency with carbon accounting methodologies and greenhouse gas inventory management
- Relevant certification such as LEED AP, GRI Certified Sustainability Professional, or similar credential
Tips for Your Director of Sustainability Job Search
Align your resume to ESG frameworks
Hiring managers for director of sustainability roles expect fluency in GRI, TCFD, or SASB reporting frameworks. Name the specific framework you've used and the scope of the disclosure you owned, not just that you led sustainability reporting.
Quantify emissions reductions you owned
Vague claims about leading green initiatives won't move your resume past a first screen. Tie your work to measurable outcomes: scope 1 and 2 reductions, renewable energy procurement percentages, or waste diversion rates you can defend in an interview.
Target companies with public sustainability commitments
Organizations that have published net-zero targets or signed onto science-based targets are actively hiring to execute those pledges. Filter your search by sector and check whether a company has a published sustainability report before applying.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists director of sustainability openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a cross-functional influence story
Interviewers for director of sustainability positions consistently probe how you drive change without direct authority. Come ready with a specific example of aligning finance, operations, or procurement teams around a sustainability goal they initially pushed back on.
Negotiate scope before you negotiate compensation
Before accepting an offer, clarify whether sustainability sits in a decision-making role or an advisory one. Ask directly whether the function reports to the C-suite and has budget authority, since those structural details shape what you can actually accomplish.
Director of Sustainability Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most director of sustainabilitys?
The most active employers for director of sustainabilitys right now are Workiva, Omya, and Sanofi, and the most openings are in Texas, Massachusetts, and Ohio, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Industries with the highest volume of postings include manufacturing, real estate, financial services, and consumer goods.
How many director of sustainability jobs are remote?
About 33% of director of sustainability openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting strong demand for flexible arrangements at the director level. ESG reporting and strategy roles tend to offer the most remote flexibility, while positions tied to facilities, operations, or on-site environmental compliance more often require a physical presence.
How do you become a director of sustainability?
Most directors of sustainability build toward the role through a combination of environmental or business education and progressively senior sustainability positions. Start by gaining hands-on experience with ESG reporting, carbon accounting, or environmental compliance, then move into program management and cross-functional leadership. Earning a recognized credential such as LEED AP or completing a GRI certification strengthens your candidacy. At the director level, employers expect you to have led strategy development, managed external stakeholder relationships, and owned measurable sustainability outcomes.
Can you become a director of sustainability without direct sustainability experience?
Adjacent experience in environmental consulting, supply chain management, corporate social responsibility, or regulatory compliance can substitute for a purely sustainability-focused background if you frame it around outcomes that matter to hiring managers. Demonstrating that you've owned cross-functional projects with measurable environmental or social impact, earned a sustainability-specific certification, and can speak fluently to current ESG frameworks will close most credibility gaps with recruiters evaluating non-traditional candidates.
What does the director of sustainability interview process look like?
The process typically starts with a recruiter screen focused on your sustainability background and leadership scope, followed by interviews with the hiring manager and cross-functional stakeholders such as finance, legal, or operations leaders. Expect a case study or presentation round where you're asked to outline a sustainability strategy or respond to a scenario involving stakeholder alignment. Final rounds often include a conversation with the chief sustainability officer or a C-suite executive, particularly at organizations where the function reports at a senior level.
Where can I find and apply to director of sustainability jobs?
You can find and apply to director of sustainability jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your background and apply directly to each one that fits your experience, sector preference, and location.
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