Digital Product Owner

South Pole is an energetic, global company offering comprehensive sustainability solutions and services. With offices spanning all continents across the globe, we strive to create a sustainable society and economy that positively impacts our climate, ecosystems and developing communities. With our solutions, we inspire and enable our customers to create value from sustainability-related activities.

Planning & Performance, Certificates team is at the forefront of developing and managing climate mitigation activities. By working closely with project owners and developers as well as their local communities, we manage the complete registration, verification and evaluation of carbon projects to enable the issuance of emission-reduction certificates, in line with official carbon standards. If you are a smart, ambitious and dynamic sustainability professional with a strong passion to make a real difference in the fight against climate change, the below position may be right for you!

Job summary:

As the Digital Product Owner you will sit at the intersection of business strategy, digital transformation, and agile execution within the Certificates Business Line. You will own ProjectOS—South Pole's core internal platform for developing and delivering carbon credits—end-to-end, alongside a broader portfolio of digital innovation projects.

Your mission is to digitize, automate, and dramatically enhance the quality and time-to-delivery of carbon credits, Environmental Attribute Certificates (EACs), and complementary services. Leading cross-functional distributed teams and managing strategic external tech partners, you will turn the workflows and pain points of upstream project development into scalable digital features. You will balance long-term innovation strategy with day-to-day agile product delivery, ensuring South Pole remains a competitive market leader.

Main tasks & responsibilities:

1. Product Vision, Strategy & Roadmap Ownership

• Own ProjectOS End-to-End: Define, maintain, and champion the multi-quarter vision, strategy, and roadmap for ProjectOS, aligning it tightly with overarching company strategy and revenue streams.
• Strategic Prioritization: Make and defend critical prioritization calls, sequence releases, and manage senior stakeholder buy-in on product direction. Decide ruthlessly what not to build.
• Portfolio Management: Develop and maintain a holistic portfolio of innovation projects that support current and future product-development requirements.

2. Discovery, Backlog & Agile Delivery

• Workflow Discovery: Spend time with project development and delivery teams globally to deeply understand workflows, pain points, and unmet needs.
• Analytical Translation: Translate complex user needs and market developments into clear user epics, stories, and rigorous acceptance criteria. Act as the primary bridge between business users and engineering teams.
• Backlog Management: Own and prioritize the product backlog. Drive the agile cadence (grooming, sprint planning, scope management, and risk mitigation) in close partnership with technical dev teams and external partners.

3. Business Cases, Data Ownership & Outcomes

• Value-Driven Decisions: Tie all roadmap decisions to sound financial value cases (e.g., calculating ROI, NPV for custom or SaaS digital tech). Track investment spend (CAPEX/OPEX) against delivered value.
• Data Governance: Act as the primary Data Owner for the data domains ProjectOS touches. Partner with the Global Digital Business Services team to ensure data quality, lineage, and robust master data management.
• Metrics & Adoption: Define and instrument product KPIs. Drive real user adoption and enablement loops rather than just focusing on feature deployment.

4. Tech Partner & Line Management

• Vendor Procurement: Continuously monitor the global digital landscape for products and providers (sensors, mobile apps, remote sensing/GIS, digital MRV