Supply (Senior) Associate - Engineered CDR Solutions

The Supercritical mission

Supercritical is the gateway to the carbon removal market. One third of corporate buyers including The Economist, Virgin Atlantic, and Rothschild & Co use Supercritical’s marketplace to navigate the market, build portfolios of high-quality vetted projects, and securely transact across spot purchases and offtake agreements. Supercritical is the marketplace of choice for visionary companies with ambitious climate goals that need to be met today, not decades from now. We recently raised a $13m Series A, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, to accelerate our mission to scale carbon removal to gigatonnes.

Why is carbon removal critical?

Carbon removal includes nature-based solutions like afforestation and cutting-edge technologies that literally pull carbon from the sky and store it underground for millennia. Our team of climate scientists act as an outsourced carbon removal procurement partner to our customers. They source and vet carbon removal projects from the frontier of science with a rigorous method that covers 100s of dimensions across environmental, market, and delivery risk categories. We list only 12% of projects that we vet on our marketplace.

We need to scale to remove 10 billion tons a year by 2050 to stay below 1.5 degrees of warming. This is over 14,000x the rate we are removing carbon at today. We've only removed a few thousand tonnes to date. This will be a trillion dollar industry by 2050.

The Role

Our role as a marketplace is to discover the highest quality projects in the market and enable them to scale through deals with large enterprise customers. This role will take the lead in building out our Engineered Carbon Dioxide Removal category. You will be working alongside PhD Climate Scientists and supply chain experts to source projects, bring them through our vetting process and support the delivery of project-defining deals. You will be reporting to the Supply Senior Manager who oversees the day to day operation of our supply team.

What will you achieve in the next 12 months?

• Become an expert in the engineered CDR market (DAC, BECCS, Enhanced Rock Weathering etc). You will be the key resource in the company to understand sector trends and the details on the best projects.
• Build a healthy pipeline of high quality projects for our climate team to vet.
• Onboard vetted projects and support them to get the most out of our platform.
• Build trust with projects through quarterly business reviews and structured deal updates.
• Lead on projects that develop out our offering to suppliers (e.g. supporting the launch of supply-side tools)

Who you are

You are passionate about CDR and have had exposure to the Engineered CDR industry. You have experience managing relationships and consistently deliver great work. You are looking for a role which gives you autonomy and the chance to talk to high-quality project developers every day. You are excited about a varied challenge; although this role starts with Engineered solutions, you should expect to lead on other key priorities as they emerge.

As a dream candidate you:

• have a Bachelor’s degree or higher, with at least 2 years work experience
• display knowledge of the CDR market, with expertise in engineered CDR solutions
• [highly valued] come with a strong network within the engineered CDR market
• enjoy building strong relationships and have good account management skills
• enjoy the process of “selling” projects on the value of Supercritical
• are very structured and used to automating routine tasks to free up your time
• communicate in a focused and punchy way that creates clarity and engagement
• have strong data literacy and are not afraid of a spreadsheet

What values can you expect from your colleagues?

We have set ourselves the mission of leading the carbon removal market to 14,000x its current size by 2050. In order to do that we need brave adventurers that think huge and deliver at speed. We call this the 14,000x mindset. The key components of the 14,000x mindset are:

• Ownership mentality: We relish autonomy and we create it for others. We are deeply curious and thrive on understanding the root cause of complex problems. We take ownership over our own and our team’s development by giving and soliciting direct and actionable feedback.
• Move fast: We identify the most important problems to solve and cut everything else. We test ideas early so we don’t waste time on dead ends. We default to action and deliver awesome results.
• Radiate positive energy: We come to problems with energy and passion. We nurture new ideas and engage positively in testing them. We inspire our colleagues to go further and are resilient to set backs. We recharge by taking time off. We are here for a great day, not a long day.
• Communicate proactively: We communicate simply and directly. We broadcast updates, insights and lessons learnt, especially when things haven’t gone to plan. We give as much context as possible so our teammates can make great decisions.

Benefits

• Basic salary: £45k-55k per annum (dependent on experience)
• Annual leave: unlimited
• One company-wide day off on the first Friday of every month
• Pension: 3% employer contribution when matched by 5% employee contribution
• Hybrid working: remote first with the option to work from our London co-working space 1-2 days per week
• Other benefits: £1000 annual wellbeing allowance and working-from-home equipment budget up to £500
• Monthly company socials in London
• Purchase high quality carbon removal offsets for your personal emissions from our inventory

Diversity and Inclusion

We’ve been committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace since day one of the company. We’re the only company we’re aware of with a 50:50 gender balanced list of investors and our day to day processes are always defined with D&I in mind, for example our remote first policy and flexibility around working time.

We are excited to encourage applications and interest from individuals underrepresented in the climate and tech space. Climate change and climate justice is a social issue that cuts across race and gender. We welcome applicants with lived experience across these issues.

Studies have shown that some groups of people, like women, are less likely to apply to a role unless they meet 100% of the job requirements. Whoever you are, if you like one of our jobs, we encourage you to apply as you might just be the candidate we hire!

UK Sponsorship & Applicants currently outside the UK

• UK Work Sponsorship: Unfortunately, at this stage of our growth, we are unable to offer UK sponsorship to applicants.
• Candidates who live outside the UK who are not looking to live and work in the UK, are within 3 hours of the GMT/BST timezone and are willing to travel to London quarterly are encouraged to apply. Please note we will use an Employer of Record arrangement in these circumstances.