The Role
Develop climate risk indicators, physical and transition risk frameworks, scenario analyses, financial impact assessments, and disclosure-ready methodologies aligned with IFRS S2 and CSRD/ESRS. Validate climate data, assess uncertainty, support regulatory gap analyses, document requirements for product and engineering implementation, and train internal teams on climate risk and disclosure topics.
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About Waterplan
Waterplan is a pioneering Series A Y Combinator-backed Climate Tech startup dedicated to accelerating the journey toward a water-secure future. Through our leading AI B2B Enterprise SaaS platform, we empower companies to understand, respond, report, and monitor their ever-evolving water risk. We help businesses see the tangible benefits of mitigating water risks, fostering a future where organizations are motivated to conserve water and preserve our precious ecosystems.
Role Summary
Waterplan's Professional Services team is hiring a Climate Risk Consultant to support our growing climate risk and disclosure work. This is an internal advisory role: you will primarily consult directly with the PS team and with Waterplan’s Product team, helping us build climate risk indicators, scenario analysis, and disclosure-ready frameworks aligned with IFRS S1 & S2 and CSRD (ESRS) requirements. Direct client interaction is not the core of this role, though occasional involvement may be requested when needed.
Key Responsibilities
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Core Skill Set
Why Join Waterplan?
About Waterplan
Waterplan is a pioneering Series A Y Combinator-backed Climate Tech startup dedicated to accelerating the journey toward a water-secure future. Through our leading AI B2B Enterprise SaaS platform, we empower companies to understand, respond, report, and monitor their ever-evolving water risk. We help businesses see the tangible benefits of mitigating water risks, fostering a future where organizations are motivated to conserve water and preserve our precious ecosystems.
Role Summary
Waterplan's Professional Services team is hiring a Climate Risk Consultant to support our growing climate risk and disclosure work. This is an internal advisory role: you will primarily consult directly with the PS team and with Waterplan’s Product team, helping us build climate risk indicators, scenario analysis, and disclosure-ready frameworks aligned with IFRS S1 & S2 and CSRD (ESRS) requirements. Direct client interaction is not the core of this role, though occasional involvement may be requested when needed.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and refine climate risk indicators and a climate risk framework covering both physical and transition risk
- Design physical and transition risk indicators using a hazard × exposure × vulnerability structure (the IPCC AR6 framing). This includes defining thresholds, normalization, scoring and classification logic, and how indicators aggregate from grid cell to asset, basin, and portfolio level
- Support the development of a solution covering scenario analysis aligned with IFRS S2 and ESRS methodologies. This includes selecting, processing, and validating climate projection datasets across emissions scenarios, time horizons, and baseline periods
- Write indicator specifications, data dictionaries, and methodology notes detailed enough for the Product and Engineering teams to implement, and auditable enough to support client disclosures under CSRD limited assurance
- Advise on the financial implications of climate scenarios (cost modeling, financial impact assessment) for client sectors such as manufacturing, technology, and textiles
- Help develop a climate change risk resilience and adaptation opportunities library tied to addressing identified potential risks
- Validate indicators against observed data and published benchmarks, run sensitivity analyses, and define how uncertainty and confidence are communicated to platform users
- Support preparation of climate-related disclosures aligned with CSRD (ESRS) and IFRS S2 requirements, including mapping which data points and metrics are required
- Track and interpret evolving ESRS/CSRD and IFRS regulatory guidance, flagging changes relevant to active projects
- Partner with the PS team to translate technical climate/disclosure requirements into internal frameworks and deliverables
- Support the team's CSRD requirements gap analysis and help define what's needed for a preliminary/dry-run and first-time disclosure exercises
- Ensure alignment with Waterplan's existing water risk indicators
- Provide internal training and knowledge-sharing so the broader PS team can speak to climate risk and disclosure topics
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Climate Science, Environmental Science, Sustainability, MSc/PhD in Climate or Atmospheric Science, Hydrology, Geosciences or a related field.
- 7+ years of senior-level experience in climate risk and resilience assessment, corporate sustainability, or climate disclosure consulting, ideally including experience leading or owning climate/CSRD-type engagements end-to-end
- Strong working knowledge of climate-related financial disclosure frameworks, including IFRS S2, with familiarity with CSRD/ESRS requirements
- Experience with physical and transition risk scenarios and data, such as the NGFS scenarios, IEA pathways, carbon price trajectories, and sector decarbonization pathways (SBTi, TPI).
- Understanding of how to translate climate scenarios into financial impact assessments
- Experience integrating climate risk into enterprise risk management or disclosure frameworks
- Strong data analysis skills and comfort working with evolving regulatory guidance
- Strong written communication skills; able to translate technical climate concepts into clear, internal-facing guidance
Preferred Qualifications
- Interest in software, technology, or digital transformation is a plus given this role supports a tech-enabled advisory platform; experience in any of these areas is an additional bonus
- Experience with double materiality assessments (CSRS/ESRS, TCFD/IFRS use financial materiality)
- Exposure to multi-country or multi-jurisdiction climate disclosure requirements
- Experience developing climate risk deliverables into a data/indicator model suitable for a software platform
Core Skill Set
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Self-directed, high-initiative, comfortable operating with ambiguous or evolving requirements
- Collaborative; able to work closely with a cross-functional, distributed team
- Ability to multi-task across concurrent workstreams and shifting priorities
- Able to work independently and deliver results with limited day-to-day oversight
- Proactive: flags gaps, risks, and open questions before they become blockers
Why Join Waterplan?
- Impactful Mission: Contribute to a meaningful cause with a clear vision of fostering a water-secure future.
- Dynamic Team: Work alongside a talented and passionate team dedicated to making a difference.
- Growth Opportunity: Be at the forefront of our industry's growth, shaping the future of water security and sustainability.
- Culture & Values: Enjoy a remote working environment with unlimited PTO, rooted in our core values: I dive in & own the outcome; I’m guided by nature when making decisions; I treat every customer as precious as water; I’m always iterating towards excellence; I make others successful; I listen with depth and respect.
- Diversity & Inclusion: Thrive in a workplace that champions diversity and inclusivity at every step of our journey.If you're ready to join a transformative division at a groundbreaking company, then we'd love to get to know you. Apply today and help chart the course to a water-secure world.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Climate Science, Environmental Science, Sustainability, or a related field; or MSc/PhD in Climate or Atmospheric Science, Hydrology, Geosciences, or a related field.
- 7+ years of senior-level experience in climate risk and resilience assessment, corporate sustainability, or climate disclosure consulting.
- Experience leading or owning climate or CSRD-type engagements end-to-end.
- Strong working knowledge of climate-related financial disclosure frameworks, including IFRS S2 and CSRD/ESRS.
- Experience with physical and transition risk scenarios and data, including NGFS scenarios, IEA pathways, carbon price trajectories, and sector decarbonization pathways.
- Understanding of translating climate scenarios into financial impact assessments.
- Experience integrating climate risk into enterprise risk management or disclosure frameworks.
- Strong data analysis skills and comfort working with evolving regulatory guidance.
- Strong written communication skills and ability to translate technical climate concepts into clear internal guidance.
- Interest or experience in software, technology, or digital transformation.
- Experience with double materiality assessments, including CSRD/ESRS and TCFD/IFRS financial materiality.
- Exposure to multi-country or multi-jurisdiction climate disclosure requirements.
- Experience developing climate risk deliverables into a data or indicator model suitable for a software platform.
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The Company
What We Do
Waterplan is the corporate water sustainability platform to measure, respond, and report water risk. With Waterplan's technology, sustainability teams can comprehensively assess water risk across their operations and supply chain, streamline reporting processes, and expedite progress towards achieving their water targets. Our platform provides access to the best-in-class water risk data and water expert leaders, saves time from water data collection to reporting and acting, and enables stakeholder alignment to take action on water risks. Waterplan has partnered with multiple large corporations across industries and regions, including Amazon, Meta, AB InBev, Colgate-Palmolive, Kurita, Suntory, Mars, and Cemex. We are a fast growing venture-backed company with a mission to accelerate the transition to a water-secured world.
