Director of ClimateTech and Private Equity

Washington, DC, United States

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Are you passionate about accelerating the global economic transition to a sustainable future?

Earth Finance is hiring a Director of Climate Tech and PE to support our growing business. We prefer this associate to be based in New York, NY or Seattle, WA.

What you’ll do:

Accelerate the global energy and climate transition.

Build a new business focused on climate and sustainability strategy, finance, investing and public policy.

Scale a consulting business line to $30M in three-to-five years.

Build a portfolio of climate technology startups, PE and VC customers and manage client and portfolio relationships.

Serve as an engagement lead and/or subject matter advisor for team-based climate and sustainability consulting projects.

Envision, design, and implement novel low-carbon business models, products and services including new consulting solutions that differentiate Earth Finance in the climate and sustainability marketplace.

Collaborate with industry experts and serial entrepreneurs with decades of experience in corporate strategy, public policy, energy, sustainability, biotechnology, carbon accounting, and environmental projects and programs.

Collaborate with climate and sustainable finance and investing professionals to build revenue accretive business models.

Identify companies and technologies most impactful to the climate transition and how Earth Finance can best support them.

Lead a budding team and create an enjoyable and impactful work environment.

Support climate technology companies to scale and commercialize at the pace our market and world needs.

Skills you’ll need to be successful in the role:

Demonstrated ability to originate a unique book of business of greater than $2M.

10+ years of accretive experience in the climatetech, sustainability strategy, and climatetech investing marketplace.

Experience building and launching new business models (including circular models).

Experience in private equity and venture capital investment and asset management.

Experience building and leading consulting practices and teams.

Experience advising both startup and corporate companies.

Expertise in energy and climate transition project finance models.

Experience and understanding of existing and emerging global policies and standards including Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), TCFD, TNFD, ISSB, SASB, GRI, PRI, SFDR, CSRD, SEC (proposed) rules, and other related policies and standards.

Comfortable with asking “why” in the ambiguity of climate data and business uncertainty.

Expertise in financial AND carbon accounting

Experience using financial modeling, data analytics, and visualization to create business cases that quantify return on investment (ROI) and return on carbon (ROC) impacts.

Clear and direct communication skills, with the ability to distill complex ideas from a variety of disciplines into actionable client take aways in various written and visual formats.

Ability to facilitate large group meetings and lead, design, and manage client trainings and workshops

Competent and comfortable with the Microsoft Office Suite, Google products, and Salesforce.

Master’s degree or equivalent experience, ideally in the fields of business, public affairs, sustainability, environmental management, and related fields.

Why you should join us:

Earth Finance is a dedicated team of strategists, investors, policy makers, scientists, and subject matter experts who are committed to identifying and implementing solutions that create a financially viable low-carbon future. We work with companies, non-profit organizations, investors, philanthropists, and governmental agencies to help them accelerate their progress toward net zero. We are a diverse team of talented, like-minded and impact focused people who are passionate about sustainability, committed to creating a better future, and focused on bringing our best selves to this work. If that sounds exciting – come join us.

Our values:

1.5°C is achievable – and we already have the solutions and capital we need to hit this goal. We partner with companies to reinvent the extractive business models of today, investors to deploy innovation capital at scale, governments to adopt common sense policies and incentives, community leaders to implement inclusive and equitable solutions, and the scientific community to ground our client recommendations in the natural world. We are committed to radically accelerating financially successful climate action.

We relentlessly focus on high value, high impact solutions.

We focus on finding the most critical, equitable, and actionable ways to reduce CO2e emissions within our clients’ unique value chains. We bring an open mind, boundless curiosity, and an objective point of view to this work.

We build productive, long-lasting, cross-functional partnerships.

Effective climate action is a team sport – no one can do it alone. We build relationships grounded in mutual respect, openness, and humility. If we say we are going to show up, we do, and we bring our A game and our best selves. We source insights from across sectors, organizations, academia, and our own team and use those insights to solve complex, entrenched problems. We believe this is the best way to create a viable, prosperous future for our team, families, clients, and the communities we collectively serve.

We create pathways for people and the planet to thrive.

We have a fierce commitment to protecting and restoring biodiversity and natural ecosystems, environmental justice, and strengthening local communities. We build solutions to empower those most impacted by climate change.

Compensation and Benefits:

Salary range for this position is $190,000 - $250,000 and final salary and title offered will be commensurate with the candidate’s experience. We also provide performance-based bonus and equity options.

Medical, dental, and vision insurance. We cover 100% of your premiums and 25% of the premiums for your dependents.

Company funded life and disability insurance.

Flexible vacation policy and 12 company holidays.

A 401(k) plan – and if you set aside 5% of your paycheck, we’ll provide a 4% match.

A super fun, passionate, dedicated team of colleagues committed to creating a sustainable, and financially sound, future for organizations, people, and the planet.

Earth Finance

Earth Finance works with organizations and investors to accelerate their transition to a low-carbon economy. We combine strategy consulting, which provides climate impact analysis, transition planning, and new business model creation and deployment, with creative financing solutions and policy insights to help organizations reduce & remove carbon and adapt to a low-carbon future. Our team of experienced business strategists, scientists, policy makers, and investors collaboratively build solutions which help organizations and investors thrive in a low-carbon economy.

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