Climate Scientist

Cervest is building the world's first open access AI-powered Climate Intelligence platform.

We’re a Certified B Corporation with a vision to build a climate intelligent world — one where everyone is able to use Climate Intelligence to adapt with climate change. By making Climate Intelligence open, democratised and transparent we will power a global Climate Intelligent Network™ that drives a chain reaction of climate intelligent decisions to protect the world’s critical assets, including our greatest asset — the planet.

Using our flagship EarthScanTM product, anyone can discover how current and future climate events such as flooding, droughts, and extreme temperatures will impact their assets. EarthScan helps our customers confidently de-risk decisions, meet financial disclosure needs and improve the resilience of the assets they own, manage or rely on.

As a company, we are a pro-diversity, highly inclusive organization, committed to bringing together people of all backgrounds and enabling them to succeed. We know that a richly diverse team will help us achieve our mission sooner.

The Role:

You will work alongside a diverse set of experts within the Science, Product, Marketing, and Customer Success Teams working to anticipate and resolve challenges customers may face, and deliver value. You will play a crucial role in ensuring credibility across Cervest's Climate Intelligence capability and digital experiences for our enterprise customers, leading to high levels of customer satisfaction, engagement, and retention. 

Your focus will be on providing scientific support and validation both internally and to our customers as a subject matter expert, helping guide use cases and further understanding of the business impacts of climate risk To provide guidance internally, you will regularly conduct competitors’ and market analyses.

You’ll also provide scientific guidance on EarthScan’s product development to make it appealing, easy to understand and scientifically accurate. 

You will stay abreast of internal scientific and product developments and also ensure that your approach is pragmatic and aligned with stakeholder requirements, including customers’ success best practices and Cervest’s marketing tone. You’ll coordinate with other teams to ensure that your outputs, timelines, and expectations are aligned.

As a Product Support and Customer Facing - Climate Scientist at Cervest, you will:

• Validate the product, to ensure that outcomes in the front and back end match
• Diagnose bugs and engage with our product and engineering teams to resolve them as quickly as possible using established processes
• Support customers by providing scientific guidance and interpretation of the product, in written and verbal forms
• Be an internal educator - explain, verbally and in written form, how our science and product address customer business needs
• Provide scientific input and guidance to internal teams, such as Marketing
• Share results & key focus areas with appropriate internal stakeholders
• Represent the experience of the customer within Cervest, and the Science Community in particular 
• Stay abreast of internal scientific and product developments 
• Conduct and document competitor analysis, with a focus on their scientific approach
• Have interaction with customers to respond to their scientific queries and to position our products to drive acquisition

Required skills and background:

• Ph.D. in climate science, meteorology, or related discipline.
• Deep understanding of climate and climate change, climate models’ shortcomings and strengths, including strong physical understanding; as demonstrated by research experience in the field.
• Strong expertise in writing code in Python
• Strong verbal and written communication abilities, to non-technical audiences, as demonstrated by experience. Such as teaching, public lectures, or other engagements.
• Collaborative abilities and adaptability to shifting and expanding priorities, and ability to provide guidance on prioritization in such a context.
• A customer-focused mindset
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
  
  

Bonus points for:

• Understanding of enterprise workflows, terminology, concepts, and strategies
• Experience with customer relationship skills

If you believe you would add value to our team but don’t meet all the criteria we have laid out in this job description, we would still love to hear from you.

Application information:

Please apply by following this link by Sunday March 6th
You can also review the benefits we offer at the same link.

Please refrain from sending applications by email.

Benefits 

As a rapidly scaling company on a mission, we are committed to ensuring that we support our team in developing in line with their aspirations and talents as well as continuing to develop our culture in line with our values.

We are a remote-first company and are hiring across Europe, the USA and beyond. We are looking for a candidate who is comfortable working in a remote setting and with a diverse team distributed across multiple time zones. This job requires minimum travel for occasional regional or global team retreats only, using more sustainable transport methods (we’ll help with that) so generally within one time zone of the UK.

• 25 days’ holiday a year (plus 8 UK public holidays or local equivalent)
• The company closes between December 24th and January 1st, which typically gives an extra 3 days off each year (on top of your 25 days entitlement)
• Remote first company culture with flexible working hours
• Maternity, paternity, adoption or shared parental leave policies
• Every employee is given a plant of their choice
• £1000 a year learning budget towards personal and professional development
• 10% of your time can be used for projects that help us meet Cervest’s mission outside your day-to-day responsibilities
• £500 stipend to spend on your work from home setup (we’ll cover your laptop and peripherals such as a screen and keyboard - you will be able to choose between a Mac or PC)
• Paid sick leave for physical and mental health with access to Spill
• Virtual team and company activities such as pastry-making classes, mindfulness classes, coffee masterclasses and murder mysteries
• £1500 loan towards a bike through the Cycle to Work Scheme (available for UK employees)

Please contact us if you have a disability and need any adjustments to be made to the application or interview process