CarbonChain - Head of SalesIntroductionDo you want to work on the most pressing problem of our generation? Do you have experience as a founder or entrepreneur and know what it’s like to roll up your sleeves and execute well, while building a company around you for the long term? If you truly know what it feels like to fly the plane while trying to build it, we want to hear from you. We’re looking for the best SaaS salespeople in the world to join an ambitious and scrappy series A startup. At CarbonChain we see the climate challenge as a transformative opportunity for the global economy, and a rewarding career opportunity for those willing to take on the challenge in a rapidly growing market. Decarbonizing the economy requires a granular, real-time view of where emissions come from and how they might be reduced. We’ve built software to automate the carbon footprinting of supply chains so their emissions can be measured and managed down. Banks, traders, and manufacturers use our product to tame the complexity of international supply networks, identify the most carbon-intensive parts, and find greener alternatives. Having developed technology which is significantly ahead of competitive solutions, we are now investing heavily in market adoption. To join CarbonChain, you’ll need a proven career path in sales to date as a “hunter” type of salesperson, who can own and develop a pipeline while pitching to executives of some of the largest companies in the world. Our company is made up of passionate people with expertise ranging from oil refining to deep learning. Between us we’ve run Amazon’s European supply chain, built JustEat’s corporate meal delivery platform, and monitored industrial emissions with satellites in all corners of the globe. We’ve got MBAs and PhDs but we know that there’s a lot we don’t know, and we’re hoping you can help fill that gap. Key ResponsibilitiesReporting directly to the CEO, the Head of Sales will play a critical role in driving growth and awareness for CarbonChain, as well as establishing and executing the direction of our sales strategy and building and cultivating a world class team.<ul><li>Lead and own all revenue growth to $20M+ ARR. We expect you to watch, learn, then take it to the next level</li><li>Build out a mature, scalable and predictable GTM sales motion that accommodates buyer persona, client size and industry.</li><li>Implement metrics and KPIs that map to the customer journey,</li><li>Leverage data to provide ongoing coaching and process improvement for the sales team, providing regular reports to executive leadership.</li><li>Act as a hands-on player-coach by initiating opportunities and closing deals directly, while also helping AEs and BDRs develop and close opportunities. We are too small for ‘delegators’. We need ‘builders’ who get things done.</li><li>Build strong relationships with global enterprises to deliver new logo revenue streams, and uplift of revenue with existing enterprise customers.</li><li>Collaborate with Product, and Engineering leaders to nail GTM motions that support product-enabled revenue growth.</li><li>Optimize sales processes, sales training and team structures with rigor that results in improved sales team performance, experimentation, forecast accuracy and timely reporting. </li><li>Stay abreast of industry trends, competitor activities, and emerging technologies to ensure a competitive edge in the market. </li><li>Revenue operations familiarity</li></ul> Desired Background &amp; Experience<ul><li>Verifiable track record of scaling from low millions to +$20M ARR, and increasing ACV from $50k to $250k.</li><li>Demonstrated success in building a repeatable sales process from the ground up that ranges from simple contracts to complicated agreements.</li><li>Comfortable working as a true self starter with a high level of agency and ownership required for a Series A startup</li><li>Ability to operate in a hyper-growth environment and understand both the complexity and challenges of navigating revenue-generating functions through this phase of the company’s growth. </li><li>Detail-oriented and process-driven with a structured approach to problem-solving, management of key metrics, and ROI calculations. </li><li>Successful implementation of a revenue forecasting methodology to generate pipeline, and achieve predictable sales results.</li><li>Intellectual and strategic horsepower, with exceptional clarity of thought and a relentless focus on execution and delivery.</li><li>The ability to pitch to more traditional companies that normally don’t buy from tech startups, yet due to rapidly accelerating regulation need to trust a new startup in order to meet their compliance obligations that are at unprecedented levels of importance to the company.</li><li>Passionately and strategically aligned with the broader team’s mission for fighting climate change by helping the most climate-critical sectors better understand their carbon footprint and take immediate action.</li></ul> BenefitsCarbonChainer’s receive a ton of great benefits, including: <ul><li>26 days of annual leave</li><li>Home office set up allowance of £500</li><li>£2,000 annual learning allowance</li><li>Team lunches once a week in the office</li><li>Subsidized gym classes, office gym, and cycle to work scheme. </li><li>Generous parental leave policy</li><li>Private healthcare </li></ul><div>CarbonChain values diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds. If you think your skills and experience match what we’re looking for and you’d like to join the next Climate Tech industry unicorn, please get in touch!You can find out more about interviewing at CarbonChain at <a href="https://www.carbonchain.com/careers/interview-process">https://www.carbonchain.com/careers/interview-process</a>.</div>

Revolutionizing supply chains for sustainability, CarbonChain's data-driven solutions combat greenhouse gas emissions in polluting industries.

Head of Sales

<h2>About Us</h2>Do you want to work on the most pressing problem of our generation? Do you have experience as a founder or entrepreneur and know what it’s like to roll up your sleeves and execute well, while building a company around you for the long term? If you truly know what it feels like to fly the plane while trying to build it, we want to hear from you. We’re looking for the best software engineers in the world to join a growing series A startup. At CarbonChain we see the climate crisis as a transformative opportunity for the global economy, and a rewarding career opportunity for those excited to take on the challenge in a rapidly growing market.Decarbonizing the economy requires a granular, real-time view of where emissions come from and how they might be reduced. We’ve built software to automate the carbon footprinting of supply chains so their emissions can be measured and managed down. Banks, traders, and manufacturers use our product to tame the complexity of international supply networks, identify the most carbon-intensive parts, and find greener alternatives. Having developed technology which is significantly ahead of competitive solutions, we are now investing heavily in market adoption.To join CarbonChain, you’ll need a proven career path in software engineering in designing, building and delivering great user interfaces that delight customers. Our company is made up of passionate people with expertise ranging from oil refining to deep learning. Between us we’ve run Amazon’s European supply chain, built JustEat’s corporate meal delivery platform, and monitored industrial emissions with satellites in all corners of the globe. We’ve got MBAs and PhDs but we know that there’s a lot we don’t know, and we’re hoping you can help fill that gap.<h2>About the Role</h2>The Tech teams at CarbonChain build and operate the systems that help sustainability leaders decarbonise their industries. We enable the union of carbon data with our customer’s data to create actionable insights for carbon emissions and track where they are generated in our customer’s supply chains. This is an exciting mix of fullstack software engineering, backend systems engineering, data engineering and data science.We are looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to speak the language of decarbonisation for our customers, via product. You’ll join our team and lead the technical implementation of our product interface as we build our best in class carbon accounting platform. The successful candidate will be a software engineer who has previously operated as a hands-on engineer focused on building enterprise applications in collaboration with design, product and data scientist colleagues. In this role, the successful candidate will be responsible for our frontend frameworks, component library and the delivery of the frontend aspects of our key projects. This role includes partnering with Product, Design, Data and our Carbon teams to build screens that delight our customers, and helping engineers across the organization solve problems, and delivering excellent UIs for our customers. We’ve seen first hand at CarbonChain that measurement equals management in the challenge to reduce global emissions. If you’re great at what you do, we want to hear from you.This role will report into our Software Engineering manager.What we require from applicants<ul><li>At least 5 years of experience in a Frontend or Fullstack Engineering role</li><li>Strong front end development skills, particularly in Angular and TypeScript</li><li>Obsessive customer focus. </li><li>Experience working closely with Product Designers and Managers to define products, manage trade offs, and drive adoption with customers</li><li>Experience building and operating software hosted in a cloud provider environment</li><li>Experiencing coaching fullstack software engineers and improving frontend skills</li><li>Excellent written and verbal communication skills</li><li>An ability to work in our London office 3 days per week in Camden Market</li></ul><h2>What we’re offering</h2><ul><li>CarbonChainer’s receive a ton of great benefits, including:</li><li>26 days of annual leave</li><li>Home office set up allowance of £500</li><li>£2,000 annual learning allowance</li><li>Private healthcare</li><li>Generous parental leave policy</li><li>Team lunches once a week in the office</li><li>Subsidized gym classes, office gym, and cycle to work scheme. </li></ul>We're striving to build a diverse team and we would love to hear from applicants from backgrounds less frequently represented in technology, be that in terms of gender, race, or professional background.If you think your skills and experience match what we’re looking for and you’d like to join a Carbon Tech industry unicorn, please get in touch!<div>CarbonChain values diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds. If you think your skills and experience match what we’re looking for and you’d like to join the next Climate Tech industry unicorn, please get in touch!You can find out more about interviewing at CarbonChain at <a href="https://www.carbonchain.com/careers/interview-process">https://www.carbonchain.com/careers/interview-process</a>.</div>

Senior Frontend Engineer

<h2>About Us</h2>Do you want to work on the most pressing problem of our generation? Do you have experience as a founder or entrepreneur and know what it’s like to roll up your sleeves and execute well, while building a company around you for the long term? If you truly know what it feels like to fly the plane while trying to build it, we want to hear from you. We’re looking for the best software engineers in the world to join a growing series A startup. At CarbonChain we see the climate crisis as a transformative opportunity for the global economy, and a rewarding career opportunity.Decarbonizing the economy requires a granular, real-time view of where emissions come from and how they might be reduced. We’ve built software to automate the carbon footprinting of supply chains so their emissions can be measured and managed down. Banks, traders, and manufacturers use our product to tame the complexity of international supply networks, identify the most carbon-intensive parts, and find greener alternatives. Having developed technology which is significantly ahead of competitive solutions, we are now investing heavily in market adoption.To join CarbonChain, you’ll need a proven career path in software engineering both in building and operating software, and building and coaching high performing teams. Our company is made up of passionate people with expertise ranging from oil refining to deep learning. Between us we’ve run Amazon’s European supply chain, built JustEat’s corporate meal delivery platform, and monitored industrial emissions with satellites in all corners of the globe. We’ve got MBAs and PhDs but we know that there’s a lot we don’t know, and we’re hoping you can help fill that gap.<h2>About the Role</h2>The Tech teams at CarbonChain build and operate the systems that help sustainability leaders decarbonise their industries. We enable the union of carbon data with our customer’s data to create actionable insights into where carbon emissions are generated in our customer’s supply chains. This is an exciting mix of fullstack software engineering, backend systems engineering, data engineering and data science.We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Software Engineers in London and NYC as we build our best in class carbon accounting platform. The successful candidate will be a software engineering leader who has operated as a hands-on tech lead and then transitioned across to Engineering Management to lead and develop highly technical teams and scale their impact. In this role, the successful candidate will be responsible for the day-to-day technology execution of our software teams, will be responsible for product delivery, and focus on delivering innovative product improvements. This role includes interfacing with the leadership team on long-term strategy, helping engineers across the organization solve problems, and delivering excellent solutions for our customers.This role will report directly into our CTO and be a partner to our Head of Product and Head of Data.What we require from applicants<ul><li>At least 2 years of experience managing multiple software teams in a startup environment</li><li>3 or more years of experience in a tech lead role</li><li>A strong customer focus. Experience working closely with Product Designers and Managers to define products, manage trade offs, and drive adoption with customers</li><li>Experience building and operating software hosted in a cloud provider environment</li><li>Experiencing hiring and developing software engineers and contributing to the development of a generative culture</li><li>Ideally experience building data processing systems</li><li>Excellent written and verbal communication skills</li><li>An ability to work in our London office 3 days per week in Camden Market</li></ul><h2>What we’re offering</h2><ul><li>CarbonChainer’s receive a ton of great benefits, including:</li><li>26 days of annual leave</li><li>Home office set up allowance of £500</li><li>£2,000 annual learning allowance</li><li>Private healthcare</li><li>Generous parental leave policy</li><li>Team lunches once a week in the office</li><li>Subsidized gym classes, office gym, and cycle to work scheme. </li></ul>We're striving to build a diverse team and we would love to hear from applicants from backgrounds less frequently represented in technology, be that in terms of gender, race, or professional background.If you think your skills and experience match what we’re looking for and you’d like to join a Carbon Tech industry unicorn, please get in touch!<div>CarbonChain values diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds. If you think your skills and experience match what we’re looking for and you’d like to join the next Climate Tech industry unicorn, please get in touch!You can find out more about interviewing at CarbonChain at <a href="https://www.carbonchain.com/careers/interview-process">https://www.carbonchain.com/careers/interview-process</a>.</div>

Senior Engineering Manager

<h2>About Us</h2>Do you want to work on the most pressing problem of our generation? Do you have experience as a founder or entrepreneur and know what it’s like to roll up your sleeves and execute well, while building a company around you for the long term? If you truly know what it feels like to fly the plane while trying to build it, we want to hear from you. We’re looking for the best software engineers in the world to join a growing series A startup. At CarbonChain we see the climate crisis as a transformative opportunity for the global economy, and a rewarding career opportunity.Decarbonizing the economy requires a granular, real-time view of where emissions come from and how they might be reduced. We’ve built software to automate the carbon footprinting of supply chains so their emissions can be measured and managed down. Banks, traders, and manufacturers use our product to tame the complexity of international supply networks, identify the most carbon-intensive parts, and find greener alternatives. Having developed technology which is significantly ahead of competitive solutions, we are now investing heavily in market adoption.<h2>About the Role</h2>We’re building an industrial-strength carbon accounting solution for the companies that buy from the world’s most polluting sectors. Our product has rapidly grown to serve dozens of the world’s largest commodity traders and their financing banks, and we’re accelerating growth into manufacturing.We’re looking for a Product Manager to work closely with the leadership and tech teams to guide this growth. We need somebody who loves to spend time with users and buyers, with a passion for sustainability and understanding complex organisations. We’re at an inflection point where the number of different use cases supported by our platform is burgeoning, and we’d love to hire a PM with a strong instinct for synthesis who can unify the product around the most impactful user journeys, and identify opportunities for new offerings.We’re a small team of versatile technologists and we don’t believe in a siloed approach. As a PM, you’ll be working with data scientists, software engineers, and domain experts to build solutions to facilitate the transition to net-zero. In a typical day you might:<ul><li style="font-weight:400;">Sit in on a customer call with a metals trader</li><li style="font-weight:400;">Spend time with a carbon accounting expert figuring out how to represent uncertainty in our emissions estimates</li><li style="font-weight:400;">Write up a series of user stories around new platform functionality</li><li style="font-weight:400;">Take a call with a bank who wants advice on setting decarbonization KPIs</li><li style="font-weight:400;">Conduct a user interview with the Head of ESG at a large commodity trader</li><li style="font-weight:400;">Spend time driving alignment across engineering, sales, data science, and product design to accelerate the team</li></ul>This is a senior role, requiring a deep understanding of technical, commercial, and environmental contexts. <h3>We expect you to bring</h3><ul><li style="font-weight:400;">Exceptional written and verbal communication </li><li style="font-weight:400;">Experience with building technical software products in high growth environments</li><li>Demonstrated ability to lead and influence small teams of engineers towards a common goal</li><li>Fluency in data and how to make data-driven product decisions</li><li>Experience evaluating product decisions and prioritisation trade-offs</li></ul><h3>Ideally you’d also be familiar with</h3><ul><li>Experience as a founder</li><li>Designing and leading the development of data platforms that aggregate customer data to drive actionable insights and product innovation</li><li>Building products in a technical role (data science, engineering)</li><li style="font-weight:400;">Decarbonisation, specifically carbon accounting</li><li style="font-weight:400;">Financial institutions, specifically trade commodity finance</li></ul><h3>You can expect us to give you</h3><ul><li style="font-weight:400;">A product with good instrumentation and users who would love to talk to you</li><li style="font-weight:400;">A tight-knit, user-focused team </li><li style="font-weight:400;">A well-oiled sales team who understand product constraints and will provide high quality access to the market</li><li style="font-weight:400;">Huge potential for personal growth into a product leadership position</li><li>The opportunity to build amazing products</li></ul><h2>What we’re offering</h2>CarbonChainer’s receive a ton of great benefits, including:<ul><li>26 days of annual leave</li><li>Home office set up allowance of £500</li><li>£2,000 annual learning allowance</li><li>Private healthcare</li><li>Generous parental leave policy</li><li>Team lunches once a week in the office</li><li>Subsidized gym classes, office gym, and cycle to work scheme. </li></ul>We're striving to build a diverse team and we would love to hear from applicants from backgrounds less frequently represented in technology, be that in terms of gender, race, or professional background.If you think your skills and experience match what we’re looking for and you’d like to join a Carbon Tech industry unicorn, please get in touch!<div>CarbonChain values diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds. If you think your skills and experience match what we’re looking for and you’d like to join the next Climate Tech industry unicorn, please get in touch!You can find out more about interviewing at CarbonChain at <a href="https://www.carbonchain.com/careers/interview-process">https://www.carbonchain.com/careers/interview-process</a>.</div>

Product Manager

<h1>Growth Marketing Manager </h1><h2>London, UK</h2>Do you want to work on the most pressing problem of our generation? Do you have experience as a founder or entrepreneur with a proven track record for enterprise SaaS sales? If so, we’d like to hear from you. We’re looking for the best SaaS salespeople in the world to join an ambitious and scrappy series A startup. At CarbonChain we see the climate challenge as a transformative opportunity for the global economy, and a rewarding career opportunity for those willing to take on the challenge of a rapidly evolving market.<h2> </h2>Decarbonizing the economy requires a granular, real-time view of where emissions come from and how they might be reduced. We’ve built software to automate the carbon footprinting of supply chains. Banks, traders, and manufacturers use our product to tame the complexity of international supply networks, identify the most carbon-intensive parts, and find lower-carbon alternatives. Having developed technology which is significantly ahead of competitive solutions, we are now investing heavily in market adoption.<h2> </h2>You’ll take responsibility for all aspects of developing and executing CarbonChain’s demand generation strategy. You’ll use a fast-moving, data-driven, experimental approach to reach target audiences through a variety of means (from ads to SEO to PR), and work closely with Sales, Product, Customer Success and Content to ultimately win new customers. <h2> </h2>You’ll have a proven track record of driving growth in a B2B enterprise SaaS environment. You love to roll up your sleeves with strong ownership, experimenting with new strategies, discarding failures and doubling down on what works. <h2> </h2>Responsibilities:<ul><li>Drive net new leads for CarbonChain, with a focus on top and middle of funnel demand gen campaigns and conversion-rate-optimisation on our website</li><li>Conduct market research, audience segmentation and account-based marketing</li><li>Build and execute a demand generation marketing strategy that wins customers and supports CarbonChain’s ambitious growth plans with the founding team</li><li>Analyze and improve CarbonChain’s current acquisition and retention campaigns, working across paid ads, SEO, social media marketing, email marketing, PR</li><li>Ensure the website is optimized and developed for growth, and that inbound flows increase with market signals of growing demand</li><li>Write tailor made content for outbound sequences relevant to CarbonChain and the product offering, without reliance on ready made templates</li><li>Run 2 to 5 data-driven experiments every two weeks to test and scale up what wins customers, conversions and referrals, and scrap what doesn’t, even if it means rolling up your sleeves to write content</li><li>Partner with BDRs to align on outbound marketing campaigns and deliver experiments to weekly timelines.</li><li>A track record of hitting aggressive pipeline targets; you’re analytical and results-driven in your approach</li><li>Work closely with Product, Sales, Customer Success, SEO and Content to identify, test and improve how we use UX, content marketing and product messaging to convert prospects into happy customers</li><li>Regularly report on the results of your experiments to leadership and the broader team, using tools like GA, Google Tag Manager, HubSpot, Salesforce, and Looker</li><li>You will develop a product marketing calendar, and will architect short and long term go-to-market moments, connecting key narratives to product milestones. </li></ul><h2> </h2>Requirements:<ul><li>A right to work in the UK (please note this is a hard requirement)</li><li>5 to 7 years experience, or a track record of owning high impact projects through stages of business growth</li><li>Ideally 2 years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, private equity, venture capital, and/or operations / strategy at a fast-growing startup</li><li>Previous biz ops, strategy, growth, or growth marketing role for a high growth Enterprise B2B or top-tier technology company </li><li>Happy to work from our Camden, London office with our team</li><li>Demonstrated experience influencing growth with data-driven activities</li><li>Proficiency in analytics tools (e.g. Google Analytics Suite, Excel is a must). More importantly, you know how to ask the right questions and answer them conclusively.</li><li>Ability to work with diverse teams and move quickly in a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous environment</li><li>An ownership mentality. We are looking for someone who can deliver impact despite having ample excuses not to. Sometimes this will mean doing work that is not in your job description</li><li>Deep customer empathy. You should be able to use first–principles thinking to suss out what our customers (finance teams &amp; executives) will be excited by</li><li>Proficiency with SQL is a nice to have</li><li>Proficiency with Salesforce is a nice to have</li></ul>BenefitsCarbonChainer’s receive a ton of great benefits, including: <ul><li>26 days of annual leave</li><li>Home office set up allowance of £500</li><li>£2,000 annual learning allowance</li><li>Team lunches once a week in the office</li><li>Subsidized gym classes, office gym, and cycle to work scheme. </li><li>Generous parental leave policy</li><li>Private healthcare</li></ul><div>CarbonChain values diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds. If you think your skills and experience match what we’re looking for and you’d like to join the next Climate Tech industry unicorn, please get in touch!You can find out more about interviewing at CarbonChain at <a href="https://www.carbonchain.com/careers/interview-process">https://www.carbonchain.com/careers/interview-process</a>.</div>

Growth Marketing Manager

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<a href="https://www.systemiq.earth/what-is-systemiq/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Systemiq</a>, the&nbsp;systems change company&nbsp;and certified&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">B Corp</a>, was founded to drive the achievement of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.un.org/en/sustainable-development-goals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UN Sustainable Development Goals</a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/paris-agreement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Paris Agreement on climate change</a>&nbsp;by transforming markets and business models in five key systems: nature and food, materials, and circular economy, energy, urban areas, and sustainable finance.
We are guided by the conviction that all system transformations are rooted in human transformations. We must continue to bring more diverse people and voices into real conversations to succeed. We know we don&rsquo;t have all the answers; we may not even have all the right questions. But we know that open mindsets drive change, so relationships, people, and trust are at the heart of everything we do.
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Do you want to be part of the change?
We are looking for Strategy Associates with consulting, or industry experience to work specifically in our Clean Energy Systems Platform. You will help enable the decarbonisation of energy-consuming sectors. We start with harder-to-abate sectors and progressively expanding to other product/service sectors, by engaging with the full value chain to reach a critical scale of deployment of portfolio of solutions
With advanced problem-solving, analytical and relationship skills, you will be experienced working on strategy type projects to deliver breakthrough insights, action and results. Ideally your background includes working at a leading management consultancy or in a strategy role in industry, public sector or civil society. You are keen to work in a small company where you can play a shaping role and make an impact.
Opportunities to work in a hybrid work set up are available via our London, Munich, or Amsterdam offices
Our work includes
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<li>We work with smaller business coalitions to create differentiated markets for low-carbon products and services &ndash; for example, the development of a low-methane natural gas market.</li>
<li>We partner with ambitious industry leaders to help them scope and seize the benefits of the low-carbon transition (e.g. assessing risks and opportunities of the energy transition for a mining company).</li>
<li>We join forces with innovators who propose distinctive, low-carbon solutions to accelerate their growth, like nuclear fusion and hydrogen-based aviation.</li>
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Who is leading this change?
Partner Eveline Speelman joined Systemiq following a successful career at McKinsey, where she founded and led Sustainability Insights, overseeing the development of models and tools in sustainability. She specialized in developing (country) decarbonization pathways, industrial decarbonization, and broader energy transition. Eveline supported companies and investors to capture opportunities and mitigate challenges related to the shift to a low-carbon energy system and the broader issues related to resource productivity. Eveline brings international experience in advisory, consultancy, and partnership building and co-authored numerous publications.
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<li>Masters or equivalent degree &ndash; Sciences/Sustainability energy related studies especially welcome</li>
<li>Data Science backgrounds strongly advantageous</li>
<li>1-3 or more years advisory/consulting/industry project experience in a high calibre and international environment, ideally working with industry, energy, manufacturing, or agricultural clients</li>
<li>Direct experience in the EV/Mobility/Energy sector is welcome</li>
<li>Problem-solving, analytical skills &amp; collaborative team player with relationship management skills</li>
<li>Intercultural competencies that bring multiple perspectives to confront society wide challenges</li>
<li>Entrepreneurial spirit with the ability to identify opportunities and new initiatives and make them into reality</li>
<li>Comfortable with a level of international travel. This will vary depending on project but could be up to 20%. (however, we don't normally co-locate with clients and typically these are short term trips)</li>
<li>Evidenced passion for the sustainability/ environment/ social enterprise space</li>
<li>Natural alignment with SYSTEMIQ values; Creativity, Challenge, Collaborate, Change and Care</li>
<li>Full fluency in German, listening, speaking and writing is strongly preferred</li>
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Opportunities to work in a hybrid work set up are available via our London, Munich, or Amsterdam offices
Disclaimer:&nbsp;Please ensure you are legally eligible to work/live in your location when applying for this role. Visa sponsorship or relocation costs will not be provided.
Diversity &amp; Inclusion
We believe that diversity and inclusion are at the heart of system change and the mission we have set ourselves. So we commit ourselves to:
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<li>Embedding diverse and inclusive ways of working&nbsp;from day to day. This includes recruitment, performance management, and people processes and policies.</li>
<li>Providing a supportive environment. We want people to be themselves and be at their best, regardless of their background, personality, gender, sexual orientation, race, mental health, religion, or other characteristics.</li>
<li>Enabling a long-term, sustainable approach&nbsp;to work and life more generally. We want to support our people at all stages of their lives &ndash; as parents or caregivers, through changing life circumstances &ndash; and to accommodate personal priorities where they matter most.</li>
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Driving system change in clean energy, circular materials, and sustainable land use, SYSTEMIQ unlocks economic opportunities for business, society,

Strategy Associate - Energy and Decarbonisation

<h3 class="body__headings">Company Description</h3>
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<a href="https://www.systemiq.earth/what-is-systemiq/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Systemiq</a>, the systems change company and certified&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">B Corp</a>, was founded to drive the achievement of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.un.org/en/sustainable-development-goals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UN Sustainable Development Goals</a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/paris-agreement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Paris Agreement on climate change</a>&nbsp;by transforming markets and business models in five key systems: nature and food, materials, and circular economy, energy, urban areas, and sustainable finance.
We are guided by the conviction that all system transformations are rooted in human transformations. We must continue to bring more diverse people and voices into real conversations to succeed. We know we don&rsquo;t have all the answers; we may not even have all the right questions. But we know that open mindsets drive change, so relationships, people, and trust are at the heart of everything we do.
Do you want to be part of the change?
Systemiq is looking for a Director with a track record of distinction in professional work. You have proven results in different contexts and are keen to work in a young, entrepreneurial company where you can get involved in a variety of projects, shape the business and make maximum impact. You come with a background in consulting or industry. You are passionate about Systemiq's vision and approach to system change.
Who is leading this change in the Energy Platform?
Partner Eveline Speelman joined Systemiq following a successful career at McKinsey, where she founded and led Sustainability Insights, overseeing the development of models and tools in sustainability. She specialized in developing (country) decarbonization pathways, industrial decarbonization, and broader energy transition. Eveline supported companies and investors to capture opportunities and mitigate challenges related to the shift to a low-carbon energy system and the broader issues related to resource productivity. Eveline brings international experience in advisory, consultancy, and partnership building and co-authored numerous publications.
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We are looking for an experienced Strategy Project Manager/Engagement Manager with consulting, or industry experience to work in our Energy Systems Platform. You will help enable decarbonisation across the economy. We work both with the harder-to-abate sectors as well as other product/service sectors, by engaging with the full value chain to reach a critical scale of deployment of portfolio of solutions.
With advanced problem-solving, analytical and relationship skills, you will be experienced working on strategy type projects to deliver breakthrough insights, action and results. Ideally your background includes working at a leading management consultancy or in a strategy role in industry, public sector or civil society. You are keen to work in a small company where you can play a shaping role, help build out the team, and make an impact.
Our work includes
<ul>
<li>Through our work with the&nbsp;<a href="http://energy-transitions.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Energy Transition Commission</a>, we bring together global leaders from across the energy landscape to define pathways to zero-carbon energy systems, galvanise leadership in the business community, and inform policy development.</li>
<li>In our work with&nbsp;<a href="https://missionpossiblepartnership.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Mission Possible Partnership</a>, we work with the World Economic Forum, Rocky Mountain Institute and WeMeanBusiness on decarbonization of the 7 hardest-to-abate sectors</li>
<li>We partner with ambitious industry leaders to help them scope and seize the benefits of the low-carbon transition (e.g. assessing risks and opportunities of the energy transition for a mining company), and help remove systems bottlenecks (i.e. on infrastructure role out)</li>
<li>We work with smaller business coalitions to create differentiated markets for low-carbon products and services &ndash; for example, the development of a low-methane natural gas market.</li>
<li>We join forces with smaller businesses and innovators who propose distinctive, low-carbon solutions to accelerate their growth, like nuclear fusion and hydrogen-based aviation.</li>
</ul>
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About you
<ul>
<li>Are excited. About the opportunity to improve the global environmental impact through low carbon solutions</li>
<li>Have a plan. And know how to get buy-in and support from both clients and the project team</li>
<li>Decisions in numbers. You use data-driven techniques to solve problems which has a positive financial impact</li>
<li>Understand that change can be hard. You have a working knowledge of change management and the people side of behaviour change</li>
<li>Delight in the details and apply your detail-oriented project management skills to ensure the team projects are scoped correctly and the team has the knowledge and support they need to deliver the global projects, products, and services</li>
<li>Have thoughts on process. Your workload is meticulously organised and maintained, and you have a reputation for follow-through. You have exceptional time management and work prioritisation, and driving multiple responsibilities simultaneously with limited oversight does not faze you.</li>
<li>Are humble. No task is too small for anyone, and you are eager to learn. You&rsquo;re all about the team, not the individual.</li>
<li>Get it done. You have a methodical approach to your multiple project management works with a strong focus on accuracy, attention to detail, consistency, and superb quality</li>
<li>You&rsquo;re a people person. You have outstanding interpersonal skills and can quickly establish rapport, build trust, collaborate, and demonstrate credibility and authority. You have proven stakeholder management skills and remain calm under pressure.</li>
<li>Words matter. You have excellent communication skills, whether in-person, virtually, or by email, and you value listening and solving others&rsquo; challenges</li>
<li>You&rsquo;re solution-oriented. You can clearly explain issues, contribute to their resolution, and effectively influence and negotiate to achieve consensus and successful outcomes. You can anticipate needs, make reasoned decisions, and communicate them effectively.</li>
<li>Curious. Keeps professional knowledge, capabilities, and skills up to date and an open and continuous learning mindset</li>
</ul>
Specific experience required
<ul>
<li>Masters or equivalent degree &ndash; Sciences/Sustainability/Engineering energy related studies especially welcome</li>
<li>5 or more years advisory/consulting/industry project experience in a high calibre and international environment, ideally working with industry, energy, manufacturing, or agricultural clients</li>
<li>At least 2 years of project management experience</li>
<li>Systems thinking, problem-solving, analytical skills &amp; collaborative team player with relationship management skills</li>
<li>Intercultural competencies that bring multiple perspectives to confront society wide challenges</li>
<li>Entrepreneurial spirit with the ability to identify opportunities and new initiatives and make them into reality (including business development)</li>
<li>Comfortable with a level of (international) travel. This will vary depending on project but could be up to 20-30%. (however, we don't normally co-locate with clients and typically these are short term trips)</li>
<li>Evidenced passion for the sustainability/ environment/ social enterprise space</li>
<li>Natural alignment with SYSTEMIQ values; Creativity, Challenge, Collaborate, Change and Care</li>
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Applications from current residents ( or nearby) in the following cities will be considered:
Amsterdam/London/Munich
Disclaimer: Please ensure you are legally eligible to work/live in your location when applying for this role. Visa sponsorship or relocation costs will not be provided.
Diversity &amp; Inclusion
We believe that diversity and inclusion are at the heart of system change and the mission we have set ourselves. So we commit ourselves to:
<ul>
<li>Embedding diverse and inclusive ways of working from day to day. This includes recruitment, performance management, and people processes and policies.</li>
<li>Providing a supportive environment. We want people to be themselves and be at their best, regardless of their background, personality, gender, sexual orientation, race, mental health, religion, or other characteristics.</li>
<li>Enabling a long-term, sustainable approach to work and life more generally. We want to support our people at all stages of their lives &ndash; as parents or caregivers, through changing life circumstances &ndash; and to accommodate personal priorities where they matter most.</li>
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Strategy Manager/Engagement Manager-Energy Platform

Summary
Cbamboo, a fast-growing climate fintech startup backed by leading European VCs, seeks a talented full-stack engineer to join the founding team in its London office on a full time basis. Cbamboo&rsquo;s software empowers firms to decarbonise their supply chains through compliance with CBAM, a new regulatory framework. As Employee #1 you will build from zero to one, working alongside the founders to transform our MVP into a production-ready platform that can be deployed at scale. This is a pivotal role that will require all your skills to create a new tech solution in the climate fintech space.
You will:
<ul>
<li>Take our software from zero to one. Our focus is on CBAM, a first-of-its-kind regulation that creates challenging requirements for companies worldwide. You will develop an advanced domain knowledge of customer needs in the context of CBAM, and translate them into robust, high-quality and accurate code. Working directly alongside our CTO, you will take our prototype and turn it into secure and robust software that is capable of deployment in the most demanding enterprise environments.</li>
<li>Design to overcome technical challenges. Our systems must integrate with tax, trade and sustainability functions across a wide range of European and global businesses, some with advanced ERPs and others with very basic systems. To achieve this successfully, we need the right infrastructure to handle customer data safely and accurately. You will help guide technical decision-making as a key member of our team.</li>
<li>Build for the most forward-looking customers. Beyond compliance we look to generate libraries of carbon pricing data that will provide mission-critical information to our customers, enabling them to decarbonise their supply chains.</li>
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About you
Requirements:
<ul>
<li>3+ years of experience building full stack applications</li>
<li>Proficiency with Python and the core elements of our stack: React, Django, Docker, SQL and AWS</li>
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Mentality:
<ul>
<li>Passionate about climate action</li>
<li>Deeply committed to product quality</li>
<li>You enjoy working collaboratively and helping others grow</li>
<li>Resilient, adaptable, and on top of the details</li>
</ul>
Diversity and Support:
<ul>
<li>Diversity is a strength that we actively look to promote in our team. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds who value collaboration, inclusion, and impact</li>
<li>We are building a supportive engineering culture that emphasises continuous learning and mutual growth</li>
</ul>
What&rsquo;s in it for you
<ul>
<li>Experience in building a fast-scaling company from the ground up</li>
<li>Fun, focused and supportive in-person culture in central London office</li>
<li>Coaching and support to learn new languages and devops tools</li>
<li>Unparalleled access to a community and network in climate tech, supply chain sustainability, and venture more broadly</li>
<li>Planned benefits to include food and drink subsidy, including meals and coffee, and cycle2work scheme</li>
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This is a rare chance to join a rapidly-growing startup and shape its path as you develop your own skills. 
Comp: &pound;55-70k depending on experience + stock options

Building the operating system for the world's carbon border taxes

Founding Engineer

The Role At Notpla, we create disappearing packaging carefully engineered for a healthy planet. Founded on the belief that nature knows best, we’re an innovative, ideas and action-oriented scale-up developing and manufacturing packaging solutions from seaweed and plants that disappear naturally. We are currently looking to recruit a Research Scientist to join our innovative Research team to support our pivotal research and development with a particular focus on our rapidly developing films product. At Notpla, we strongly believe in our mission and our employees' ability to help us achieve our goals. We encourage everyone who joins us to develop and grow and take responsibility for your domain without micromanagement. Our objective is to foster a fantastic business culture that is reflected in our working policies and environment.Besides offering exciting roles and a great working environment, Notpla provides competitive salaries, the potential for EMI Share Options, a zero-carbon pension scheme, discounts with local businesses, and subsidised social activities. Our flexible working policy allows you to work at your own pace.We are a social business with regular clubs and events, and we are proud of how our diverse workplace has created a community that is all pushing towards the common goal of making plastic disappear.The driving force behind every Notpla product is its research department. A highly innovative and talented team of individuals comprising graduates, experienced scientists, PhDs, and industry professionals, this diverse range of backgrounds has enabled the team to build a solid technical expertise capable of answering any question. As a team member, you will be encouraged to pursue your ideas, trusted in your role, and empowered to strive for the best. As a Research Scientist you will be responsible for the formulation development of natural, edible, biodegradable materials for packaging applications, working closely with the development team to push our products into the real world.  Your profile We are looking for an experienced scientist with a degree in Polymer Science or Engineering, Materials Science or Chemistry with a strong understanding of polymeric materials and extrusion technologies. You will have a demonstrable interest in natural materials and extrusion, ideally with hands-on experience working with plastics processing. You will also have at least a years experience working in an industrial research environment within bioplastics, polymer extrusion or polymer processing, or a PhD within a relevant discipline. As well as the above, your day to day responsibilities will also include:<ul><li>Identifying, sourcing and testing natural materials with specific target properties</li><li>Characterisation of materials performance using mechanical and physical techniques e.g.  tensile testing  </li><li>Preparation of samples using extrusion and other techniques </li><li>Working closely with the development &amp; scale up team to translate lab scale formulations to the larger scale, including participation in internal and external manufacturing trials where needed</li><li>Conducting shelf-life evaluation and quality analysis of prototypes and finished products </li><li>Benchmarking of Notpla formulations against industrial standards</li><li>Extrusion of natural material formulations through compounding and film formation</li></ul>If the above sounds like something you can see yourself doing, then please apply with a CV and cover letter and someone from our recruitment team will be in touch.  Salary Negotiable

We are a combination of designers and chemists, engineers and entrepreneurs. We’re hard to define because what we’re doing hasn’t been done before. We create advanced packaging solutions that disappear, naturally.


Research Scientist

The Role At Notpla, we create disappearing packaging carefully engineered for a healthy planet. Founded on the belief that nature knows best, we’re an innovative, ideas and action-oriented scale-up developing and manufacturing packaging solutions from seaweed and plants that disappear naturally.We are currently looking to bring in a Financial Planning and Analyst Manager to help our management team model the overall finances of the business. At Notpla, we strongly believe in our mission and our employees' ability to help us achieve our goals. We encourage everyone who joins us to develop and grow and take responsibility for your domain without micromanagement. Our objective is to foster a fantastic business culture that is reflected in our working policies and environment.Besides offering exciting roles and a great working environment, Notpla provides competitive salaries, the potential for EMI Share Options, a zero-carbon pension scheme, discounts with local businesses, and subsidised social activities. Our flexible working policy allows you to work at your own pace.We are a social business with regular clubs and events, and we are proud of how our diverse workplace has created a community that is all pushing towards the common goal of making plastic disappear.The business services team is a versatile group that plays several roles within the business, including finance, HR, and impact. As our company rapidly grows, we must expand our finance team to meet the increasing demand from internal and external stakeholders. The team you will be joining is multi-talented and takes pride in providing excellent service to the business. They act as the foundation that allows our exceptional designers, engineers, scientists, and commercial and production staff to push the boundaries of our technology forward. Your profile We are looking for a talented and astute financial analyst or financial planning manager to join our team. Ideally you will be comfortable dealing with ambiguity and have experience building financial models and processes from scratch. You will also have a strong commercial acumen and the ability to easily discuss complex financial concepts. We would also expect you to have an accountancy qualification from CIMA, ACCA etc. As well as the above you will also be responsible for:<ul><li>Own business modelling and annual planning, updating as needed and providing insights to leadership</li><li>Work with technical teams to help them understand the commercial impact of their business line </li><li>Manage pricing strategies and work with the Product Managers and Head of Finance to develop pricing models </li><li>Creating monthly financial reports, board packs and investor reporting</li><li>Work with the Supply Team to ensure sufficient stock and effectively managed spend </li><li>Work with the Impact Team to ensure update to date carbon accounting and impact models</li></ul>If the above sounds like something you can see yourself doing, then please apply with a CV and cover letter and someone from our recruitment team will be in touch.  Salary £50,000-£60,000 + EMI Share Options

Financial Planning & Analyst Manager

The Role At Notpla, we create disappearing packaging carefully engineered for a healthy planet. Founded on the belief that nature knows best, we’re an innovative, ideas and action-oriented scale-up developing and manufacturing packaging solutions from seaweed and plants that disappear naturally. We are currently looking to recruit a Sales Manager to work on our foremost product, food-to-go boxes and containers made from Notpla’s proprietary coated board. In this role you will be responsible for selling across the UK’s expansive food service industry.At Notpla, we strongly believe in our mission and our employees' ability to help us achieve our goals. We encourage everyone who joins us to develop and grow and take responsibility for your domain without micromanagement. Our objective is to foster a fantastic business culture that is reflected in our working policies and environment.Besides offering exciting roles and a great working environment, Notpla provides competitive salaries, the potential for EMI Share Options, a zero-carbon pension scheme, discounts with local businesses, and subsidised social activities. Our flexible working policy allows you to work at your own pace.We are a social business with regular clubs and events, and we are proud of how our diverse workplace has created a community that is all pushing towards the common goal of making plastic disappear.This is an exciting time to join Notpla in the current role. The company achieved £1.5m revenue last year and expects rapid growth in the next 18-24 months. The commercial team is a talented group from diverse backgrounds, providing a wide range of skills to call upon to meet unique commercial goals and challenges. As a team traditionally arranged in a product-focused matrix structure, we have seen the need to create a deeper leadership structure incorporating market specialities as we grow and develop. As a National Account Manager you will be responsible for opening opportunities in the food service industry, selling Notpla’s revolutionary coated board in the form of finished products to distributors and end clients, and in the form of board to converters.  Your profile We are looking for someone with a proven track record of delivering on targets, within the foodservice industry. Although direct experience in selling packaging would be extremely beneficial, experience as an end user of single use packaging in the food service industry will definitely be considered. You will need to have excellent negotiation and communication skills and be able to form lasting and mutually beneficial partnerships with our large network of customers. As well as this you will need to have a knowledge of how to build and maintain a sales pipeline, all whilst being able to articulate the incredible benefits and impact of Notpla products. As well as the above you will also be responsible for:<ul><li>Managing and qualifying inbound enquiries, and leading introductory calls with prospective clients discussing the environmental, commercial and technical benefits of working with Notpla (supported by other relevant Notpla employees at relevant points).</li><li>Developing new business opportunities by conducting introductory calls with both qualified and unqualified leads.</li><li>Proposing, structuring and pitching commercial presentations to prospective new customers.</li><li>Influencing the ongoing development of the relevant product strategy, including the Where to Play and How to Win decisions.</li><li>Work with existing clients to understand any opportunity to scale and grow revenue, to ensure we are maximising the potential of every account.</li><li>Ownership of your own database of existing and prospective customers.</li><li>Work with our customers to collect feedback that can be used to continually develop our product range and capabilities.</li><li>Ownership of personal sales pipeline.</li><li>Negotiate deals with new and existing customers to extract the maximum amount of value for Notpla.</li></ul>If the above sounds like something you can see yourself doing, then please apply with a CV and cover letter and someone from our recruitment team will be in touch.  Salary Negotiable

National Account Manager - Food to go packaging

The Role At Notpla, we’re on a mission to make packaging disappear. We’re an innovative, ideas and action-oriented start-up that was founded on the belief that nature knows best. We develop and manufacture naturally biodegradable packaging solutions, made from seaweed and plants. We’re looking to bring in a Sales Manager to focus solely on developing the market for our flexible film.  At Notpla, we truly believe in what we are trying to achieve and we believe in our employees' ability to help us achieve our goals, because of this, anybody joining Notpla will be given the opportunity to develop and grow. You won’t be micromanaged, we want you to take responsibility for your domain. Our common goal has created a fantastic business culture where everyone takes care. We know that we work better together and this is reflected in our environment and working policies. As well as exciting roles and a great working environment, Notpla also offers competitive salaries, the potential for EMI Share Options, a zero carbon pension scheme, discounts with local businesses and subsidised social activities. We also offer a flexible working policy that allows you to work to your own flow. We are a social business with multiple clubs and events every week, and are proud of how our diverse workplace has created a community all pushing together in the pursuit of making packaging disappear.  This is an exciting time to join Notpla, as our first flexible film has now reached the point of manufacturing readiness that we can go to market and start selling it as a via sustainable alternative to PE/PVOH films.. Our commercial team has traditionally been arranged in a product focussed matrix structure but as we grow and develop we have seen the need to create a deeper leadership structure that incorporates market specialities. The commercial team is a talented group that come from a variety of backgrounds, this gives a wide range of skills to call upon to help us meet our unique commercial goals and challenges. We have just launched our first commercial partnership with the film product and we're looking to expand this further in three identified markets - dry foods (meal kits or food-2-go), home care, and cosmetics. Your role will be to lead the commercialisation of this product in these markets, understanding that new materials have their own challenges to overcome, and to create long lasting profitable relationships that ensure we deliver our goals. Your profile We are looking for an experienced Business development professional who has industry experience in selling flexible films, ideally in one or more of the markets noted. You will have experience of building lasting partnerships with companies in the home care, cosmetics, CPG or FMCG industries and will understand what your partners want to see from a new material. It is imperative that you have great negotiation and account management skills and have the ability to articulate the impact of Notpla products. As well as the above your day to day responsibilities will include:<ul><li>Proactively Identify and pursue new business opportunities with consumer brands in CPG industries, and use your technical sales experience to win new business</li><li>Develop and own pipeline of relevant customers, working closely with the Product Manager to understand the strengths of the product and its potential market impact.</li><li>Managing and qualifying inbound enquiries, and leading introductory calls with prospective clients discussing the environmental, commercial and technical benefits of working with Notpla film. </li><li>Developing new business opportunities by conducting introductory calls with both qualified and unqualified leads.</li><li>Proposing, structuring and pitching commercial presentations to prospective new customers.</li><li>Influencing the ongoing development of the relevant product strategy, including the Where to Play and How to Win decisions.</li><li>Work with our customers to collect feedback that can be used to continually develop our product range and capabilities.</li><li>Work with the Product Manager and Chief Revenue Office to define pricing strategies. </li><li>Negotiate deals with new and existing customers to extract the maximum amount of value for Notpla.</li><li>Work with other Business Development Managers to help develop each others skill set through a culture of peer to peer feedback and coaching, and for potentially mentor and develop an emerging sales team. </li><li>Collaborate with R&amp;D, Marketing, Design, Production, and Impact functions to ensure the smooth execution of projects and sales plans. </li><li>Represent Notpla at events and communicate the brand's values and unique selling propositions to customers</li><li>Stay up-to-date with industry trends, competitor activities, and consumer preferences, and provide strategic recommendations accordingly</li></ul> If the above sounds like something you can see yourself doing, then please apply with a CV and cover letter and someone from our recruitment team will be in touch.  Salary Negotiable

Sales Manager - Flexible Films

The Role At Notpla, we create disappearing packaging carefully engineered for a healthy planet. Founded on the belief that nature knows best, we’re an innovative, ideas and action-oriented scale-up developing and manufacturing packaging solutions from seaweed and plants that disappear naturally. We are currently looking to recruit a Product Designer to join the creative hub of Notpla. At Notpla, we strongly believe in our mission and our employees' ability to help us achieve our goals. We encourage everyone who joins us to develop and grow and take responsibility for your domain without micromanagement. Our objective is to foster a fantastic business culture that is reflected in our working policies and environment.Besides offering exciting roles and a great working environment, Notpla provides competitive salaries, the potential for EMI Share Options, a zero-carbon pension scheme, discounts with local businesses, and subsidised social activities. Our flexible working policy allows you to work at your own pace.We are a social business with regular clubs and events, and we are proud of how our diverse workplace has created a community that is all pushing towards the common goal of making plastic disappear.Our creative engine room: the design team is responsible for generating innovative ideas that drive our product capabilities forward. It’s a dynamic group of creatives committed to embedding our values into everything we do. The team is primarily divided into product-specific sections but works collaboratively to design and create unique solutions.  Your profile We are looking for an inventive forward thinker; ready to spearhead novel product propositions using Notpla biomaterials. You will be capable of bringing your designs to life through crafting compelling visual and verbal narratives. You will need to be able to thrive in open briefs, embody a "thinking through making" mentality, and possess a keen eye for design excellence. You will need organisational skills that are second to none, allowing you to navigate working on diverse projects with ease. You will need to come from a product design background and will ideally have experience in creating novel, unique and practical physical products. As well as the above your day-to-day responsibilities will include:<ul><li>Concept Development: Individually and collaboratively with cross-functional teams to brainstorm, connect the dots and create innovative packaging concepts that create new value and align with Notpla’s values and strategic goals. You are a creative problem solver and proactively propose novel directions and imaginative ideas. </li><li>Physical Designs: Develop functional and visually compelling design prototypes and final product propositions to demonstrate the feasibility and desirability of new product ideas. This may involve various novel materials and making processes. and include physical prototypes as well as limited digital mock-ups.</li><li>Biomaterial Development: You innovate and create value not only at a product level but also on a material level. You work individually, as well as closely with the research team, to fast-track research through creative problem-solving and a rapid prototyping mentality. Creating novel biomaterial samples and testing material properties will be part of your job. </li><li>Visual Storytelling: Create engaging visual assets, including diagrams, illustrations, photography, and moving image, to convey the vision and potential of new products. Develop inspiring presentations and materials for internal and external stakeholders in a timely matter.</li><li>Building and nurturing relationships: You’ll be pitching and presenting to brands (among others) together with other team members, and think of ways to nurture and develop strong external relationships with stakeholders in the supply chain as well as commercial partnerships to bring concepts to reality.</li><li>Design Excellence: Ensure design work meets the highest quality possible in the given timeframe and creates value. Considering the designs from a holistic point of view reviewing its, aesthetic quality, functionality, usability/user experience, end-of-life and producibility. Continuously push the quality, refine and iterate on designs based on feedback and new insights.</li><li>Life-Centred Approach: Apply design thinking principles to empathise with users (businesses and end-users), understand their needs, and translate insights into innovative product solutions. You’ll be conducting various tests to validate product propositions from a functional, user and usability point of view and collect feedback for this.</li><li>Inspiration and Market/Design Research: You have a natural curiosity and proactively seek inspiration and references from wide-ranging areas. Stay up-to-date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and competitive products to inform and inspire your design process.</li><li>Cross-functional collaboration: You’ll be working closely with researchers, business development managers, designers, and other team members to bring biomaterial solutions into the real world.</li><li>Prototyping Tools: Utilise a range of design and prototyping software and hardware, staying proficient in the latest tools and technologies.</li></ul>If the above sounds like something you can see yourself doing, then please apply with a CV, portfolio (pdf or website) and cover letter and someone from our recruitment team will be in touch. Notpla Limited takes inclusion and diversity seriously. It is important for us that we live by our values and our policies outline how – We take care and We work better together. Salary Negotiable

Product Designer

The Role At Notpla, we are on a mission to make packaging disappear. We are an innovative sustainable packaging startup that was founded on the belief that nature knows best. We develop materials, design and manufacture a range of packaging solutions made from seaweed and plants that all biodegrade completely naturally. We are currently looking to hire a Social Media Guru to join our enthusiastic and growing marketing team.  At Notpla, we truly believe in what we are trying to achieve and we believe in the ability of our employees to help us achieve our goals. Because of this, anybody joining Notpla will be given the opportunity to develop and grow, you won’t be micromanaged, we want you to take responsibility for your domain. Our clear mission has created a fantastic business culture where you’ll be surrounded by like minded individuals who really care. We know that we work better together and this is reflected in our environment and working policies. Alongside great roles and a fun working environment, Notpla also offers competitive salaries, the potential for EMI Share Options, fantastic discounts with local businesses and a flexible working policy that allows you to work to your own flow. We are a social business with multiple clubs and events every week, and we are incredibly proud of how our diverse workplace has created a community all pushing together in the pursuit of making packaging disappear.  Your profile If you are interesting joining Notpla but haven't seen a role advertised that suits your experience. Please feel free to apply to this so we can keep your CV on file, should anything relevant come up.

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