You’ll be the Methodology Analyst in a startup working on solving climate change. Looking for an experienced person with the ability to work with a team in developing and evaluating nature-based and industrial carbon removal methodologies. Nori is a two-sided marketplace with various external stakeholders, and two customer types: demand-side and supply-side customers. You’ll be developing methods and processes to quantify carbon and create digital certificates of carbon removal.
Nori is a startup founded in October 2017 with the mission to enable global engagement to reverse climate change via carbon removal. By providing a marketplace where anyone in the world can pay for and get paid for removing and storing atmospheric carbon dioxide, Nori acts as a financial mechanism that will create new opportunities for climate innovation and carbon removal.
We’re upgrading on the carbon offset space. Historically carbon offsets have been mired with opacity which then leads to a lack of confidence and trust in what projects are supported. Additionally, most carbon offsets (95%) represent paying someone to do less of a bad thing, i.e. mitigating emissions.
Nori is different in three key ways. First, Nori only supports carbon removal, or carbon sequestration, which is the only method that can actually reverse/negate carbon emissions. Second, Nori is the only platform with end-to-end marketplace of credits. Because we work directly with project owners who “supply carbon removal”, maintain the retirement of carbon removal credits, and track this all on the blockchain, Nori is providing a transparent and credible way to pay for carbon removal directly from project developers with no price markups. Lastly, with Nori’s API, businesses can offer environmental action and engagement directly to their customers at check-out or in-app, and immediately provide information on the project they supported, with immediate create of certificates with the customers name on it.
We highly recommend that you review the information about Nori and its team before applying to this position at https://nori.com/careers.
Learning a bit about Nori will help you to assess whether or not our mission aligns with your values.
You will be the Methodology Analyst at Nori and part of the Supply and Methodology team reporting to the Head of Supply and Methodology. However, you will work closely with the Product and Demand teams, which are led by the head of product and the head of sales & customer development.
All of these teams work a little bit differently, but they work hand in hand with each other to create an inventory of verified carbon removals that can be sold through our marketplace.
The Supply team works with Nori Suppliers: anyone who can verifiably remove and store CO2 from the atmosphere. The Methodology team works on developing the requirements for how projects are enrolled (see current methodology). Both teams report to the Head of Supply and Methodology. As Nori’s current focus is on our Croplands Methodology, the Supply team is working with farmers as well as the partners and companies around them to enroll croplands into the Nori market. Additionally, Nori will be doing two things coming up: creating a repeatable framework for adding new methodologies, and adding those actual methodologies. This is where you will come in.
The Product Team is responsible for the Nori marketplace, supply-side enrollment app, marketing website, and any of the technical/software aspects of Nori’s work. The Product team works with the other teams—Supply, Sales, and Communications—to support business development needs.
The Demand Team is responsible for driving carbon removal sales and developing Nori’s customer base. Whether responding to customer feedback or RFP’s, the demand team deals with all things customer facing and will play an important role in developing future methodologies.
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There is a lot of ambiguity in what we’re building, and you will be key in working with internal and external stakeholders to sort through all the concerns and uncertainties to make sure we’re delivering the most transparent and accurate methodologies to calculate carbon removal. You will also be dealing with strong opinions on the best types of methodologies and the best way of measuring carbon and providing a clear message to leadership on the risks and benefits, including but not limited to scientific and commercial, of any proposed methodology. You must be able to partner with all of these folks even when you disagree with them to ensure that Nori’s reputation with the scientific community is validated. What’s the payoff for all this hard/fun work?
By joining Nori at this time, you’ll help to shape our culture and help us to grow the company we hope to become. You’ll be helping us to solve some of the biggest challenges when it comes to creating a marketplace for carbon removal, from teamwork to technical implementations. You’ll learn a lot about the environment and agriculture.
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This position will be located in Seattle, WA in our Ballard office. We are an office-centric culture with flexibility around remote work and daily schedules.
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