Full-Time
Posted on 5/8/2026
ESG-focused supply chain analytics platform
$70k - $80k/yr
Remote in USA
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Worldly.io provides a subscription-based platform that helps businesses manage sustainability within their supply chains. It enables clients to collect real-time ESG data, track environmental and social metrics, and prepare for evolving regulations. The service offers insights on sustainable materials and supply-chain actions, along with tools to improve transparency and communication with suppliers. The platform supports a range of customers from apparel developers to sustainability directors across industries, with tiered plans that adjust for different levels of features and support. Worldly.io’s goal is to help companies reduce environmental impact, meet regulatory and consumer expectations for transparency, and advance climate-positive outcomes through data-driven decisions.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Kensington, California
Founded
2019
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Worldly hires former Walmart Human Rights Senior Director to lead social risk strategy. * 3 hrs ago Worldly, the leading sustainability and supply chain intelligence platform for the consumer goods industry, today announced that Kathryn Smith has joined the company as Vice President, Human Rights Risk Solutions, leading its social compliance and human rights strategy. Smith most recently served as Senior Director, Responsible Sourcing - Human Rights & Environment at Walmart, where she spent nearly 12 years building and running programs that set the standard for large-scale supply chain accountability. Kathryn Smith Running a responsible global supply chain has always required good data - on the factories a company works with, the labor practices behind the products it sells, and the social risks embedded in every tier of its sourcing network. For most companies, that data has been scattered, inconsistent, and hard to act on. Sourcing directors, supply chain risk managers, and buying teams have had to make high-stakes decisions without the reliable social insights their environmental counterparts have had for years. As sweeping new regulations, including the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive and expanding forced labor import restrictions, raise the stakes further, the gap between companies with decision-ready social data and those without it is becoming more consequential. Worldly is built to close that gap. By centralizing and standardizing social data across the supply chain, Worldly gives sourcing, buying, and sustainability teams the decision-ready insights they need to manage risk, meet regulatory requirements, and source with confidence. In her new role, Smith will have end-to-end responsibility for Worldly's social compliance offerings, including the Higg Facility Social & Labor Module - part of Cascale's Higg Index, developed in collaboration with Worldly - social capabilities within Worldly Axion, and the platform's expansion into solutions built specifically for sourcing and buying teams. A key pillar of this work is continuing to develop the Higg Facility Social & Labor Module in strategic alignment with the Social & Labor Convergence Program's Converged Assessment Framework, reinforcing Worldly's commitment to industry standardization and helping brands and suppliers reduce audit fatigue by replacing duplicative assessments with a single, recognized standard. Smith will work across product, engineering, sales, marketing, and customer teams to ensure Worldly's solutions address the real operational challenges her former peers face every day. "Sourcing and buying teams have been making important purchasing decisions with fragmented, limited social data for too long," said Smith. "The current and upcoming regulations are forcing the issue, but the companies that get ahead of this will have a real competitive advantage, not just a compliance checkbox. Worldly is uniquely positioned to bring environmental and social data together in a way that actually works for the people who make buying decisions. That's what drew me here." At Walmart, Smith led global standards and controls programs across responsible sourcing, product safety and consumer protection compliance programs, and strengthened governance frameworks across U.S. and international markets. She led the human rights and environment strategies for Walmart's global Responsible Sourcing Program. As part of this role, she focused on centralizing data to give compliance and buying teams real-time access to social and environmental data, enabling them to make the right buying decisions and work with suppliers to improve global supply chains. She also advanced racial equity initiatives within Walmart's global governance organization, work that reflects the breadth of what modern social compliance leadership demands. "Kathryn has spent her career sitting exactly where our customers sit - accountable for outcomes across sourcing, risk, and human rights at one of the world's most complex supply chain operations," said Kevin Vranes, Chief Product Officer at Worldly. "That experience will directly shape how we build social solutions that work for the teams who need them most." Smith's appointment reflects Worldly's push to expand beyond sustainability reporting and become the platform of record for anyone who touches supply chain risk in consumer goods. By centralizing environmental, social, and operational data in one place, Worldly gives sustainability, sourcing, and buying teams the solutions to anticipate disruptions, satisfy regulators, and build supply chains that are genuinely more resilient. About Worldly Worldly is the leading sustainability and supply chain intelligence platform for the consumer goods industry. The company empowers brands, retailers, and manufacturers to turn verified primary data into insight and action across complex global supply chains. Trusted by a network of more than 40,000 companies across apparel, footwear, home furnishings, and sporting goods, Worldly provides visibility into environmental and social performance, including carbon, water, chemicals, and labor, at the product, facility, and value-chain levels. Built on industry-recognized standards, including Cascale's Higg Index, Worldly translates raw data into actionable intelligence that helps organizations reduce risk, meet evolving regulatory requirements, and drive measurable progress over time.
Worldly has expanded its Product Impact Calculator to cover more than 260 consumer goods categories, including apparel, footwear, furniture, home goods and sports equipment. The solution helps brands measure product-level Scope 3 emissions and prepare for global regulatory reporting requirements. Multi-category brands and retailers have used the platform to model emissions for over 400,000 products. Unlike spend-based approaches, the calculator integrates primary data on materials and suppliers, providing more precise carbon footprint calculations than traditional life cycle assessments whilst being more scalable. The solution connects with Worldly's broader data ecosystem, including Cascale's Higg sustainability indices, ensuring primary data flows from supplier inputs to finished-product impact. This enables organisations to identify emissions hotspots, model decarbonisation scenarios and prioritise reduction actions with greater confidence.
Worldly acquires GoBlu to unify environmental and chemical data management. Worldly, a sustainability intelligence platform, has acquired GoBlu, the company behind The BHive, a widely used digital solution for chemical inventory management, traceability, and compliance in apparel and textile supply chains. SIGN-IN if you are already a subscriber of Shoe Intelligence. Subscribe today. * Unlimited access to shoeintelligence.com - all insight, analysis and statistics 24h/day available online * Its executive edition of Shoe Intelligence (Digital Edition) - the must-read for all decision-makers in the industry * Weekly E-mail Briefing from the Chief Editor with the lastest analysis and most important industry developments * Case studies and best practices on business challenges * Guest chronicles, interviews, insights from industry experts and leaders that are shaping the future of the industry * Unlimited access to shoeintelligence.com - all insight, analysis and statistics 24h/day available online * Powerful search and access to over 16,500 articles and analyses in the archive * Personal library to save articles and track your key content * Organisation-wide access across offices, people and devices
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Worldly, the leading supply chain sustainability data and insights platform for the consumer goods and apparel industries, today announced the launch of Facility Data Manager (FDM) to help businesses more effectively track ongoing progress towards their decarbonization targets and make decisions that drive environmental improvements faster. As sustainability regulations such as the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) emerge globally, FDM helps brands prepare for environmental reporting requirements by providing timely primary data that aligns with regulatory frameworks. Aligned with Cascale’s industry standard Higg Facility Environmental Module (FEM) — the most comprehensive assessment for environmental performance in the consumer goods industry — Worldly’s new Facility Data Manager enables manufacturing facilities to regularly share key impact data with their brand and retail partners. Brands can access quantitative data on energy, water, waste and other impacts submitted by dozens to thousands of manufacturing facilities, as frequently as monthly. With FDM, brands can see the waste, water and emissions they are uniquely responsible for within a single factory. This addresses a critical industry need for more timely, standardized, high-quality primary data and insights for assessing ongoing risks and opportunities for supply chain improvements and reporting sustainability progress
Francois Thrower joins Worldly's Executive Leadership Team as company accelerates growth and impact.