Product Sustainability Lead

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and operationalize the company’s product sustainability strategy, including Design for Sustainability and circularity principles and product-related emissions reduction roadmaps.
• Establish governance frameworks, policies, and KPIs to ensure sustainability criteria are integrated across product lifecycle stages (design, sourcing, manufacturing, distribution, use phase, and end-of-life).
• Define company-wide product sustainability and circularity metrics, define and regularly track, analyze, and report progress towards targets.
• Translate corporate sustainability goals (GHG reduction, circularity, materials targets, etc.) into product-level requirements and guidelines.
• Engage with external partners, suppliers, and industry coalitions to enhance Sandisk’s product sustainability programs and keep pace with best practices and evolving regulations.
• Own recommendations for sustainability-related solutions, including business cases to get buy-in from senior leaders.
• Leverage LCAs, PCFs, and environmental impact assessments to inform existing and new product specifications and recommendations.
• Manage product environmental data models using recognized standards (GHG Protocol Product Standard, ISO 14040/44, ISO 14067, EN 15804, etc.).
• Partner with Quality to develop and maintain product-level emissions factors, bill-of-materials data, and lifecycle inventories, and scale processes to enable faster and more efficient development of LCAs and PCFs.
• Produce customer-ready outputs such as environmental product declarations, product category rule-aligned disclosures, and carbon transparency labels.
• Monitor and incorporate evolving product sustainability regulations into product sustainability strategy and roadmaps, for example:
  • EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products (ESPR)
  • EU Digital Product Passport (DPP)
  • Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)
  • External sustainability reporting requirements affecting product data
• Ensure product portfolios meet current and upcoming market, customer, and regulatory expectations.
• Support Quality, Legal, and Procurement teams to maintain compliance documentation and readiness.
• Support sustainability engagement for priority accounts; shape joint roadmaps and value propositions aligned to customer goals (e.g., decarbonization, circularity, disclosure).
• Translate customer needs into solutions (products, services, data) and quantify environmental and business impact (e.g., avoided emissions, TCO, ROI).
• Capture requirements and feedback to inform product roadmaps, ESG narratives, and strategy prioritization.
• Support preparation of customer-ready emissions summaries, scorecards, questionnaires, attestations, certificates, and digital data feeds.
• Develop product-related sustainability metrics and roadmaps. Measure performance and prepare materials for internal dashboards, external communications and reporting, and public disclosures.
• In partnership with Legal, support marketing teams in ensuring environmental claims meet Federal Trade Commission’s Green Guides, ISO 14021, and other relevant standards.
• Partner with R&D and Product Engineering to integrate low-carbon design specifications, material substitution, recyclability, disassembly, and circularity principles into new product development.
• Work with Supply Chain to gather supplier-specific primary data, including material footprints and ESG metrics.
• Collaborate with Operations to align product sustainability metrics with manufacturing processes, waste, energy, and water data.
• Support Sales & Marketing with product sustainability claims, certifications, and customer inquiries.
• Develop familiarity with and leverage product sustainability data systems, software tools, and LCA databases.
• Audit and drive improved integration between product data, product lifecycle management, enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, and emissions reporting systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Environmental Science, Sustainability Science or related technical field.
• 8+ years of experience in quantitative sustainability workstreams, product development, lifecycle assessment, or environmental compliance.
• Strong understanding of LCA methodologies, product carbon accounting standards, and sustainability reporting frameworks.
• Proven experience with LCA tools, product data systems, and scaling across diverse product portfolios.
• Ability to translate complex technical information into clear recommendations for non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated track record developing or governing product related claims, narratives, or communications in consultation with Legal, Regulatory, and Compliance partners.
• Strong project management and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Key Competencies

• Systems thinking and lifecycle mindset
• Strategic planning and prioritization
• Data quality and analytical rigor
• Change management and stakeholder influence
• Techical writing and documentation
• Customer-centric and innovation-oriented approach