Director, Standards Solutions (Washington, D.C.)
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Washington, DC proper · Washington · Netherlands
Posted Aug 10, 2026
- Part-time
- Remote
- Standards, Certification & Product Delivery
blab
Washington, DC proper · Washington · Netherlands
Posted Aug 10, 2026
This is a Full-Time Role (40 hours per week, 5DWW) with no option for part-time work. While this is a remote-first opportunity, the candidate filling this role must be a resident of the Netherlands, the U.K., Brazil, Pennsylvania, or New York at the start of employment. Additionally, they must be within commuting distance of our office in Amsterdam, London, São Paulo, Philadelphia, or New York City.
Please visit our Careers page to review all opportunities and submit your application for the role(s) that best fit your location and work authorization.
The Standards Solutions function translates B Lab's standards into practical pathways for business action and impact. Through certification, B Impact, and a growing portfolio of standards-based products and services, it enables businesses to understand, implement, demonstrate and continuously improve against B Lab's standards while safeguarding the credibility, integrity and financial sustainability of the certification system. The function provides business leadership for B Corps Certification and B Impact as the primary platform through which businesses engage with B Lab's standards. Working closely with Product and Technology, it shapes the business requirements that ensure B Impact supports certification, continuous improvement and future standards-based solutions, becoming the digital foundation of B Lab's impact ecosystem. Working across Standards Development, Product, Customer Experience and Growth, the function creates integrated, customer-centred pathways that are accessible, scalable and efficient. It balances customer experience, commercial sustainability, operational excellence and standards integrity to expand adoption while maintaining the rigour and trust that underpin B Lab's standards. The function also develops complementary products, services and strategic partnerships that extend the reach of B Lab's standards and help businesses continuously improve their impact over time. In doing so, it plays a central role in advancing B Lab's mission by converting ambitious standards into measurable business action, continuous improvement and positive impact at scale. The function succeeds when businesses can confidently adopt and continuously improve against B Lab's standards through trusted, scalable experiences that deliver stronger customer outcomes, operational excellence, sustainable growth and greater positive impact.
B Lab is seeking a Standards Solutions Director to lead one of the organisation's most strategically important business verticals, responsible for scaling the adoption of B Lab's standards through certification, B Impact, and a growing portfolio of standards-based products and services. The role provides business leadership for B Impact as the primary platform through which businesses engage with B Lab's standards, working closely with Product and Technology to shape its evolution as the digital foundation of B Lab's impact ecosystem. The role is accountable for the commercial, operational and strategic performance of the Standards Solutions portfolio, including growing certification and recertification, expanding standards-based products and services, improving delivery efficiency, and safeguarding the credibility, integrity and long-term sustainability of B Lab's standards and certification system. The successful candidate will combine deep expertise in certification, standards, assurance or compliance with strong commercial, operational and customer leadership. They will be an entrepreneurial and strategic leader with a proven track record of scaling complex, customer-centred businesses, products or SaaS-enabled services while balancing growth, operational excellence and mission.
Standards Adoption Strategy [30%]
Certification & Improvement Journey [30%]
Business Performance & Operational Excellence [20%]
Portfolio Growth & Market Development [20%]
Major Objectives/Project for the role in the first 6-12 months
Success Measures
We encourage you to apply if you have:
While not required these skills and experiences would be great to have:
B Lab has a compensation plan that includes:
This is a Full-Time Role (40 hours per week, 5DWW) with no option for part-time work.
This job ad is for our Washington, D.C. hub. While this is a remote-first opportunity, the candidate filling this role must hold U.S. work authorization without any time limitations or any other restrictions at the start of employment. They must be a resident of one of the following at the start of employment: the District of Columbia, Arlington, Alexandria, Fairfax, or Falls Church counties in Virginia, and Montgomery or Prince George's counties in Maryland. Additionally, they must be within commuting distance of our office in Washington, D.C. If you wish to be based in one of our other locations listed for this role, please visit our Careers page and submit your application through the job ad that best fits with where you hold residency and work authorization.
We require all of the following in order to consider your application:
Please do not include a cover letter.
If you progress through additional stages in the hiring process you can expect to:
Please note that your first day of work must be in-person at one of our office locations to complete onboarding documents and meet with some members of our team.
We will begin reviewing applications on August 11th, 2026 and will continue until we identify a diverse and qualified candidate pool.
Please note: All applications will be reviewed by our team, and all candidates will receive a status update via email after their application has been reviewed, which we expect to complete by mid October. This job ad will close automatically at 11:45pm EST on August 30th. However, if a decision is made to close it sooner a 48 hour notice will be added to the job ad with updated closing time and date. Due to capacity constraints on our hiring team, we are unable to provide you with a specific status update beyond these parameters but all candidates will hear back via e-mail once we have completed or review of applications. Our ideal start date for this role is mid to late October 1, 2026.
If we can offer reasonable accommodations to you in the application or interview processes, or if you have feedback on how we could improve the equity or accessibility of our recruitment, you are welcome to contact us at careers @ bcorporation.net with the subject line “Accommodation request - Director, Standards Solutions". Please note that we are unable to respond to general status inquiries or other messages that are unrelated to accessing our application or interview processes.
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