Carbon Accounting Lead

Who we are"Does it get the world to net-zero carbon faster?" Spend time with the Emitwise team, and you'll often hear this question being asked. At Emitwise, we've built a team that has the skillset and desire to bring automated carbon accounting to life — saving businesses time, money, and emissions. Ultimately, we're a group of people disenchanted with business as usual and looking to make real impact through creative innovation.Backed by top-tier Silicon Valley investors who share our mission, including True Ventures and Ex Uber CEO Ryan Graves, we are a well-funded seed-stage start-up. Read more about us in publications like Forbes, Business Insider, and Fast Company. Your missionTo help companies address their carbon impact, we need to scale our industry-transforming carbon accounting platform, enabling businesses to automatically measure, report and reduce their carbon footprint. You’ll split your time 75% on customer work and 25% working with our product and engineering team to develop our data ingestion and automated carbon accounting software platform that will revolutionise how corporate carbon accounting is done.

We think in terms of impact, not strict responsibilities. Here's how you’ll contribute:

• We're growing quickly. Your ability to produce high quality corporate carbon accounting analysis in a timely way will allow us to continue to rapidly scale our customer base
• You can build for the future. You’ll help us build, manage and maintain a high quality database of emission factors that will quickly become one of the most comprehensive in the world
• Efficiency is key. You’ll always be looking for ways to improve our playbooks and processes to ensure we can delight customers across a range of industries
• You set the tone. You will play a major role in growing a healthy culture of transparency, collaboration and technical quality in the team, both through your work and as a leader
• You'll deliver high quality work as part of a team. You’ll interpret environmental data and ensure the highest standards in inventory analysis are met, and will empower the customer success team and support engineering and product to deliver for customers
• We want to change the way our customers do business: Your expertise in carbon accounting, environmental consulting and project management, coupled with your commercial judgement and knowledge of real-world applications to carbon accounting, will ensure customers achieve their carbon goals

Who you are. There are a range of experiences and skills that will likely help you succeed in this role, including:

• You have great academic credentials, including a degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant field (e.g. Environmental Science or Environmental Management) or a broader field with a focus on environmental issues (e.g. Data Science, Engineering or Economics).
• You're deeply committed to tackling the climate emergency and have a sound understanding of the underlying science and have proven experience in the workplace
• You love analysing and interpreting data and are driven to solve challenging technical problems
• You are able to communicate complex, technical information clearly, concisely and accurately, and are comfortable presenting ideas to customer audiences with varying degrees of knowledge
• You are passionate about working directly with corporations on their carbon footprint and can demonstrate experience of GHG accounting in line with best practices (e.g. the GHG Protocol or ISO 14064)
• You thrive in a dynamic working environment and are comfortable managing multiple project teams simultaneously
• You're a free thinker who will identify opportunities for improvement and be confident in communicating these

What's in it for you?

• Accelerating the global fight against climate change through corporate ESG responsibility
• Being part of a supportive, collaborative team full of amazing talent
• Bringing advanced software solutions to vital but antiquated industries
• Reinventing how carbon accounting is done, all while delivering analysis and reduction plans for leading global businesses
• Helping to manage the chaos of growing a company (and sometimes contributing to that chaos)

Financial compensationSalary range: £50k – £70kWe also offer a range of benefits that we feel are critical to a happy, productive workplace, including unlimited holiday, a personalised workspace, flexible working hours, social impact time off, professional development, mental health time off and a competitive compensation package.What are you waiting for?If this sounds like a team you'd like to join, a mission you'd like to be part of and a role you'd thrive in, then apply now! Whatever skills you bring to the table and whatever background you're coming from, we welcome you to start a conversation with us. The time to act is now.----- Right to work We are currently only accepting applications from candidates who have the right to work in the UK. We believe in the value of diversityWe believe diversity is the cornerstone of innovation. We embrace uniqueness and continually strive for equity for all. Ultimately, our team powers Emitwise. We want all our employees to feel valued and appreciated for who they are, where they come from, and what they've achieved. Our employee policy is designed to prevent discrimination regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes them unique.