Sustainability Associate

Aspiration is the first VC-backed neobank on a mission to be the leading consumer financial services brand and company focused on sustainability and the environment. At Aspiration, we created the category of sustainable, socially responsible retail consumer finance. We offer unique financial products to let people save, spend, and invest their money in ways that make them more financially secure and align with their personal values. Unlike other financial institutions, Aspiration is committed to building a relationship with our customers based on trust and aligning the customer’s success with our own. Aspiration has raised over $200M in funding to date, and is growing quickly.
We are looking for an energetic, analytical, and detail-oriented Sustainability Associate to build out and drive internal and external adoption of our company’s core sustainability and impact offerings for customers and partners - including the flagship Aspiration Impact Measurement (AIM) offering, along with reforestation, carbon offset/credit, and other sustainability-focused products and services.  This position will report to the Head of Sustainability.

What You'll Do

• Understand and work with data providers to incorporate ESG factors into the creation of sustainability metrics and composite personal and company impact scores
• Use research and vision to evaluate and maintain weightings of factors to create sustainability scores
• Work with product, marketing/growth, design data, and engineering teams to incorporate sustainability across our product offerings
• Evangelize sustainability and AIM both internally and externally
• Help communicate AIM and other sustainability offerings to brands and partners
• Provide sales and marketing support to achieve external AIM adoption goals
• Stay current on industry sustainability initiatives and standards, e.g. SASB and UN SDGs
• Contribute to developing and ensuring operational excellence around regular updates of sustainability metrics and reporting
• Develop dashboards and metrics to track and report success, at the corporate level, the individual customer level and at the customer population level

What You'll Bring

• 2-5 years experience in ESG/sustainability research
• Familiarity with metrics & frameworks for sustainability, e.g. SASB, UN SDG
• Proven track record of working in a fast-paced growth-focused environment
• Exceptional analytical/quantitative experience in Excel
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Self-starter, get things done attitude with the ability to work independently and with little supervision
• Creative problem solver
• Proven ability to work with, inspire and energize others, internal and external
• GOOD TO HAVE:
• Technical sales support
• Fast-growing company experience
• Familiarity work with analysis/reporting tools like Looker or Tableau

What You'll Get

• Work for a mission-driven company to transform the lives of millions by building a better, values-oriented financial firm
• Competitive Salary and Equity Incentives
• Robust Healthcare Plans (medical, dental, vision)
• 401K & Unlimited Vacation Time
• Diverse & Inclusive Culture