(Senior) Research ESG Manager (m/w/d) | Berlin (hybrid)

What you can expect at Packa

• Creative freedom: You will work directly with the product team and the founding team, giving you creative freedom from day one.
• Ownership: You will be part of a highly motivated, diverse, and successful team and will have a high degree of freedom and responsibility from the outset.
• Hybrid working: You will work in a great office in Berlin - Prenzlauer Berg.
• Leadership: You will work in a company with an inspiring vision, led by an experienced founding team and supported by leading investors!
• Appreciation and commitment: We believe in fair compensation, and you will benefit from a clear path for growth and development.

Your tasks

• You take a leading role in productizing sustainability and regulatory frameworks for our SaaS product Packa.
• You translate complex regulatory and legal texts (e.g. PPWR, EPR, PCF, recyclability requirements) into clear product requirements and decision trees.
• You work closely with the tech teams during the implementation phase to provide context and test developed systems.
• You conduct deep-dive research on packaging sustainability topics and turn insights into actionable product specifications.
• You act as the domain expert for ESG, sustainability and regulatory topics for internal teams and Packa customers.
• You establish and continuously improve a structured research practice, including documentation, standards and best practices.
• You define and maintain test data, validation logics and edge cases for sustainability-related product features.
• You support the long-term transition from an operational expert role towards domain leadership as Packa scales.

What you bring with you

• You have experience in a research-heavy, analytical environment dealing with complex information, for example in ESG, sustainability, regulatory, analyst or academic contexts.
• You are experienced in structuring complex topics and translating them into logical, implementable systems.
• You have worked with regulatory or compliance-driven topics and understand how legislation translates into operational requirements.
• You combine a high attention to detail with the ability to understand the bigger picture.
• You have a strong execution mindset and take ownership of your topics end to end.
• You are motivated to build real, scalable ESG software rather than reports or slide decks.
• You have worked closely with product and engineering teams.
• You have very good German skills and are fluent in English.