Senior Global Environmental Compliance Specialist

Location

Boston, MA

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

On-site

Department

Hardware

At WHOOP, we're on a mission to unlock and inspire performance for life. WHOOP empowers members to perform at a higher level through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives. Our wearable technology and personalized insights help people optimize recovery, sleep, training, and overall health. As we continue to expand globally, ensuring our products meet evolving environmental regulations is critical to delivering innovative hardware to members around the world.

We’re looking for a Senior Global Environmental Compliance Specialist to lead WHOOP’s global environmental product compliance. In this role, you’ll own the strategy, execution, and continuous evolution of our environmental compliance framework, ensuring our products meet global regulatory requirements throughout the product lifecycle while enabling rapid innovation and worldwide market access.

Responsibilities

• Ensure WHOOP’s products meet environmental compliance standards in all current and planned global markets, including regulations such as RoHS, REACH, California Proposition 65, SCIP, POPs, battery, and packaging requirements.

• Lead regulatory reporting, product declarations, and data submissions to ensure timely and accurate compliance across global markets.

• Partner with Hardware, Operations and other cross-functional teams to ensure environmental compliance requirements are considered throughout product development, from concept through end of life.

• Collaborate with Global Supply Management and suppliers to communicate evolving regulatory requirements, collect compliance documentation, and improve supplier readiness.

• Monitor the global regulatory landscape, assess business impact, and provide recommendations that proactively address emerging environmental requirements.

• Develop and improve compliance processes, documentation, and operational procedures that scale with WHOOP’s product portfolio.

• Manage environmental compliance data and documentation within compliance management systems, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency through automation.

• Develop and maintain Bio-compatibility testing standards as appropriate for wearable products. Ensure the team understands requirements applicable to each product and incorporates appropriate bio-compatibility tests early in development.

• Partner with cross functional teams to satisfy Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) obligations across global markets, including WEEE, Battery, and Packaging waste management registration, data reporting, and Producer Responsibility Organization (PRO) management.

• Support company initiatives related to voluntary environmental standards and sustainability programs.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Science. Preferred: Materials focused degree or research.

• At least 5 years of experience managing global environmental compliance for consumer electronics, wearables, or other hardware products.

• Strong working knowledge of global environmental regulations, including RoHS, REACH, TSCA, California Proposition 65, SCIP, POPs, battery, and packaging requirements.

• Experience managing environmental compliance data, documentation, and regulatory reporting using compliance management systems such as Greensoft or equivalent tools.

• Demonstrated ability to interpret complex regulations and translate them into practical engineering and operational requirements.

• Experience partnering across Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, Quality, and Legal to drive compliance throughout the product lifecycle.

• Excellent project management, communication, and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

• Experience supporting voluntary environmental standards or sustainability certification programs.

This role is based in the WHOOP office located in Boston, MA. The successful candidate must be prepared to relocate if necessary to work out of the Boston, MA office.

Interested in the role, but don’t meet every qualification? We encourage you to still apply! At WHOOP, we believe there is much more to a candidate than what is written on paper, and we value character as much as experience. As we continue to build a diverse and inclusive environment, we encourage anyone who is interested in this role to apply.

WHOOP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-verify to determine employment eligibility. It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

The WHOOP compensation philosophy is designed to attract, motivate, and retain exceptional talent by offering competitive base salaries, meaningful equity, and consistent pay practices that reflect our mission and core values.

At WHOOP, we view total compensation as the combination of base salary, equity, and benefits, with equity serving as a key differentiator that aligns our employees with the long-term success of the company and allows every member of our corporate team to own part of WHOOP and share in the company’s long-term growth and success.

The U.S. base salary range for this full-time position is $140,000 - $195,000. Salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within each range, individual pay is based on factors such as job-related skills, experience, performance, and relevant education or training.

In addition to the base salary, the successful candidate will also receive benefits and a generous equity package.