Partnerships, Strategic Partner Lead

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 We are looking for an experienced, creative and entrepreneurial individual who combines strategic vision with operational know-how to drive scalable results through collaboration with both external partners and internal teams. You’ll work directly with our Head of Partnerships along with cross-functional teams including Sales, Product, Legal and Finance. Your role will focus on ensuring both new business development and successful customer outcomes with established and deeply strategic North American partners, including the industry’s largest consultants and SI partners. This role is based in our New York office. You will: Develop the Watershed ecosystem of partners in our established NAMER market, identifying, launching and expanding partner opportunities that are most closely aligned with our strategic commercial + product vision. Own the partnership end-to-end including developing terms, executing partnership agreements, onboarding new partners and owning partner success Drive sales pipeline via the partnerships identified and in play - this will be a key metric of success for this role Act as a thought-partner to Sales/Customer Success and Product teams to map out highest impact and revenue opportunities and influence future of the company’s revenue streams You might be a fit if you have: Significant experience in Business Development and Partnerships, including past work in ecosystem partnerships In-depth experience building and scaling partnerships with global system integrators Deep under standing of revenue structures and incentives to successfully design partner programs A proven track record of collaborating with cross-functional GTM + customer teams to drive tangible business results Experience in co-branding and co-marketing efforts to drive customer acquisition and growth A passionate thought-partner and collaborator across product, marketing, data and customer teams Experience in the early stages of team and company growth with the ability to think big picture, while also rolling up sleeves and executing 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.