The GRESB Global Chief Product and Technology Officer drives business impact by uniting product vision, technology, and AI-native innovation. Embed AI and agentic engineering into product strategy to create intelligent, autonomous capabilities. Align customer needs, data, and engineering to deliver scalable platforms, accelerate innovation, and build differentiated, AI-powered products that drive growth and long-term competitive advantage.

KEY EXPERIENCE/RESPONSIBILITIES:

Support the CEO and leadership team in achieving financial and operational targets consistent with GRESB’s 3- to 5-year plan.

• As a member of GRESB’s leadership team, deliver ~20%+ revenue growth from FY2026 through FY2030, specifically:
• Total Revenue: From ~$30m in FY2025 to ~$100m by FY2031
• EBITDA: From ~$6m FY2024 to ~$40m by FY2031

• % of key product or internal workflows meaningfully augmented or automated by AI
• Directly ties AI to productivity and user value

Create a clear and compelling product vision and strategy that creates value for the customer and aligns with the company’s strategic priorities and financial goals.

• Build a multi-product strategy that covers LPs and GPs and spans into new market areas (lenders, banks) to measure the performance of the most material non-financial metrics for real estate and infrastructure assets through both near term module introductions (e.g. Data Centers, Asset Labs) & long-term pillar expansions.
• Establish a plan for near, medium, and long-term product expansion. Generate 20% of revenue from new products annually.
• Assessments (outline desired performance of the product)
• Assessment Related Solutions (outline desired performance of the product)
• REAL Solutions (outline desired performance of the product)
• AI productization with (no. tbc) use cases in production with customers.
• Proactively address regulatory changes and competitive threats to inform the product roadmap and get ahead of market trends and evolving client needs.
• Deliver pipeline of products that yield high likelihood of commercial success, and reduce implementation burden and follow-up support required.

Refine product management discipline and best practices to execute the product roadmap

• Lead an AI centric product management framework to drive disciplined and cross-functional product delivery. Utilize this framework to measure and track effectiveness of product team (e.g., velocity, CSAT/NPS, etc).
• Collect customer feedback systematically and proactively from multiple touchpoints (customer meetings, focus groups, competitors, NPS feedback, GTM, Marketing and Customer organization). Ensure the most important customer needs are being worked into the roadmap in a timely and ongoing basis.
• Partner with the leadership team to level-set expectations, and prioritize and allocate resources effectively in the product development process.
• Launch AI centric products that are on-time, on-budget, delivering the desired customer outcomes while creating a culture of failing fast and constant iteration (i.e., testing and learning).

Engineering Operations, Delivery & Efficiency/Productivity

• Continuously improve the engineering team’s overall structure, organization, costs and delivery of results while anticipating future challenges (e.g. automation, scaling issues, legacy code, etc)
• Work with Engineering Leaders and Functional Leaders to set priorities and resource allocation (budget, talent, and time) and monitor execution and delivery.
• Review split of R&D resource allocation (15% maintenance, 20% technology transformation, 20% tactical roadmap, and 45% strategic roadmap) and appropriately size to enterprise-standards.
• Automate internal process as much as possible by implementing modern technologies like AI/ML, reducing manual effort required. Track automation of work with volume and complexity of work.
• Leverage AI within engineering / R&D to deliver product and customer service upgrades at pace / lower costs.
• Implement agentic workflows that automate feature development, code review, testing, and deployment to significantly reduce cycle time.
• Increase developer productivity by deploying AI agents for coding, testing, documentation, and debugging across the software development lifecycle.
• Leverage AI agents for continuous code quality monitoring, security scanning, and automated remediation.
• Focus on the offshoring agenda relevant for R&D.

Technical Leadership: Brings GRESB’s technology platform and strategy to industry leading levels.

• Translate business goals and product strategy to what the team builds and how they are building it.
• Successfully deliver the remaining portion of the Codebook re-platforming and Cloud migration, to capture full gross margin benefits and deliver a better microservices architecture for GRESB to make engineering and back office more efficient.
• Decouple legacy architecture and services into modern, scalable, and modular microservices to enable a multi-product strategy and to accelerate new customer-facing functionality launches.
• Build a standardized platform, tools, and governance model enabling teams to safely develop and operate AI-assisted software systems.

Strategic Business Alignment: Is a critical partner in addressing business objectives and defining future requirements

• Align business and product platform strategies and translate to engineering strategies, roadmaps, priorities and governance to improve productivity and efficiency in supporting business goals.
• Implement clear accountabilities and outcome oriented OKRs with Product.

Team Builder / Talent Magnet

• Creates team-based culture. Empathetic people leader. History of building organisations with high morale and camaraderie across geographies.
• Talent magnet. Will attract A players to the organization. Will bring their own network - engineers move with this person across companies.
• Manages out non-performers, develops team members into leaders.

Establish strong working relationships across the leadership team and board

• Gain the trust and respect of CEO and Company’s SLT and employees.
• Develop strong long-term relationships with engineering and management.
• Be a true partner to the business and the Board. Mitigate potential risks in business and product planning
• Actively engage in discussion and debate, bring a logical and analytical approach to the table. Have the maturity to resolve conflict and disputes.
• Role-model a strong work ethic, initiative, entrepreneurial mindset, and willingness to roll up sleeves.

• Proven executive leadership experience in a high-growth, product-led SaaS, data, or fintech environment, with a track record of scaling revenue and delivering commercial impact
• Deep expertise in defining and executing multi-product strategies, including expansion into new markets and customer segments, with strong alignment to business goals and financial outcomes
• Strong AI/ML and agentic engineering experience, with demonstrated success embedding AI into products, workflows, and software development to drive automation, innovation, and productivity gains
• Ability to align product, engineering, and business strategy to deliver scalable, platform-based solutions, including modernizing architecture (cloud, microservices) and enabling faster product innovation
• Proven track record of building and scaling high-performing product and engineering organizations, including implementing best practices (OKRs, agile, metrics) and improving delivery velocity and quality
• Strong commercial and strategic acumen, with the ability to anticipate market trends, regulatory changes, and customer needs, translating them into differentiated product roadmaps
• Experience delivering products end-to-end (ideation to scale), with a focus on customer-centricity, rapid iteration, and measurable outcomes (e.g., NPS, adoption, revenue contribution)
• Demonstrated ability to drive engineering efficiency and operational excellence, including resource allocation, cost optimization, automation, and global/offshore team models
• Exceptional leadership and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trust with CEO, Board, and senior leadership, and act as a strategic partner in shaping company direction
• Entrepreneurial, hands-on leader with strong communication skills, a talent magnet mindset and a genuine interest in sustainability and the role of data in driving impact in real assets

• A defining leadership opportunity at an organisation whose work shapes how trillions of capital evaluate sustainability performance
• Direct access to and partnership with the CEO
• A team of exceptional, mission-driven specialists across four disciplines
• The backing of BeyondNetZero, General Atlantic's climate investing platform, and a shareholder base committed to GRESB's long-term impact
• Competitive compensation commensurate with the seniority and scope of the role

ABOUT GRESB

GRESB is a mission-driven organisation and strategic partner for sustainable and high-performing investments across real assets and climate-critical industries. We help investment professionals mitigate risk and build portfolios that are resilient, efficient, and financially attractive for long-term success.

Our Vision: An investment industry that plays a central role in creating a sustainable world.

Our Mission: To provide financial markets with actionable sustainability insights, data, and benchmarks. More than 150 global institutional and financial investors with USD 53 trillion in assets under management rely on GRESB to help guide their investment decisions, mitigating risk, improving portfolio quality, and driving long-term financial success.

The GRESB team is an energetic group of more than 100 individuals from diverse backgrounds with experience spanning sustainability, data science, software development, real estate, infrastructure, and the capital markets. Most of us work out of our head office in Amsterdam or one of our satellite offices in London, Paris, Berlin, Boston, Singapore, or Sydney. We are passionate about tackling the sustainability challenge by providing the insights that will power the markets of the future and enable investors to allocate the world's capital in a more responsible way.

GRESB is a portfolio company of BeyondNetZero, General Atlantic's climate investing platform.

GRESB is an equitable, diverse, and inclusive workplace, one at which all workers - regardless of their gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, age, sexual orientation, identity, education, or disability - feel valued and respected. We are committed to a non-discriminatory approach to hiring and provide equal opportunity for employment and advancement in all of our teams and programs.

GRESB is an equal opportunity employer.