Principal Consultant

Salary range :
Competitive salary plus benefits, incentives, and stock options

Position type: Full-time & permanent

JSP (Job Success Profile) Reference: P5 Principal Consultant

Schedule: Flexible, with expected availability during regular office hours unless calendar blocked off

Reports To: Chief Operating Officer

Highwood Emissions Management is the oil and gas industry’s independent partner on methane. Our customers include O&G companies representing 10% of global production, governments, industry and trade associations, environmental NGOs, and academic institutions. We are building the trust infrastructure for progress on methane by convening a team of world-class experts, listening closely to our customers, and growing the world’s most widely used software platform for methane reporting and analytics.

We are small, agile, and brimming with innovation. Joining Highwood means working alongside the brightest and most ambitious people in methane. These new colleagues will hold you to a high standard. We value mission, curiosity, ownership, hard work, and healthy boundaries. We are solving novel problems at a brisk pace, and it’s not for everyone. Highwood is a strong fit for those hungry for professional growth, making an impact, and owning equity in our success.

Highwood Emissions Management (Highwood) is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Methane is the most complex and consequential emissions challenge facing the oil and gas industry. Measuring it correctly, reporting it credibly, and managing it strategically requires a depth of expertise that very few people in the world possess. Highwood is looking for one of those people.

As a Principal Consultant, you are Highwood’s most senior technical presence on a client account. You are not a project manager and you are not a salesperson. You are the person clients trust when the stakes are highest: the expert who helps them see the true shape of their methane challenge, architects the path forward, and becomes the anchor of a long‑term advisory relationship.

Highwood’s model is expert‑led. Thought leaders open doors; you create conviction. You lead the senior discovery work, translate technical complexity into a clear and credible action plan, and hand off to a delivery team who executes with precision. Then you return — for Quarterly Business Reviews, Annual Strategic Reviews, and any moment where the depth of your expertise and the strength of your relationships determine the outcome.

This is one of the most consequential roles in the energy transition. The clients you advise are responsible for a meaningful share of global methane emissions. The frameworks you help them implement — OGMP 2.0, EUMR, measurement‑informed reporting — are shaping what credible methane management looks like for the entire industry. You will not just be advising on standards. In many cases, you will be helping to set them.

Client Discovery & Solution Architecture

• Lead senior discovery engagements with new and expanding clients — help them understand the full scope of their methane challenge, not just the piece they came to you with
• Translate technical complexity into clear, practical solution architecture: measurement programmes, OGMP 2.0 level pathways, reporting frameworks, data infrastructure, mitigation strategy, and the role of EIP in holding it all together
• Help clients understand what credible methane management looks like — and why Highwood’s integrated approach (advisory, platform, professional services) is the path to getting there
• Scope engagements that are commercially viable and technically rigorous; create clean handoffs to delivery teams with zero ambiguity
• Codify repeatable diagnostic and scoping frameworks; make Highwood’s discovery capability stronger with every engagement you run
• Return for QBRs, Annual Strategic Reviews, and expansion moments where senior technical credibility changes the outcome

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