Manager, Asset Innovations

ClimeCo is seeking a full-time Manager, Asset Innovations, on our Project Development team. This position will be remote/ hybrid within the United States or Canada, with a preference for Denver, Calgary, New York City San Francisco or Washington DC and a potential for hybrid work in the future. ClimeCo has co-working spaces in the cities listed.

Position Description

The main objective of the role is to support the Asset Innovation Team in the early stages of project development, including cultivating and maintaining business leads and client relationships, evaluating project opportunities for environmental integrity and financial viability, advising clients on project feasibility negotiating contracts, and managing service agreements. The position will have a particular focus on projects that generate technology-based carbon dioxide removals (CDR?s), including biochar, bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) projects, with the potential to expand into other CDR methods and project types, as well as other industrial decarbonization opportunities. The ideal candidate has experience negotiating and structuring commercial agreements and has a solid understanding of carbon markets and carbon project development.

ClimeCo embraces diversity and welcomes candidates who contribute to a climate that supports our staff of all identities and backgrounds. We further commit ourselves to an inclusive workplace where we value the perspectives of all employees by recognizing and appreciating their unique skills and talents. We strongly encourage individuals from underrepresented and/or marginalized identities to apply.

Key responsibilities include:

• Evaluate potential carbon projects for environmental and social integrity and financial viability. Relevant tasks and abilities include credit yield calculations, policy review, market analysis, technical review, and financial models to project credit prices and optimize project economics.

• Identify and mitigate risks associated with project development, including technical, financial, and regulatory risks.
• Develop and manage client relationships with project partners, including project developers and technology providers. Conduct business development meetings, develop proposals, negotiate and close deals, and expand opportunities through existing client relationships.
• Collaborate with internal teams, external clients and partners, and governing bodies to ensure smooth project execution.
• Support business development activities by responding to incoming client leads, conducting business development meetings, developing proposals, closing deals, and growing existing client relationships.
• Develop and maintain general expertise on voluntary and compliance carbon markets including market dynamics, quality, credibility, methodologies, standards, trends, etc. Develop specific expertise in methodologies and registries associated with CDR?s.
• Work with the broader ClimeCo team to evaluate pathways for clients to reach their decarbonization goals, including, but not limited to: carbon project development, RECs, VCM (voluntary carbon markets), compliance markets, Article 6, green premiums, insetting, and other innovative commercial structures. This may involve evaluating product carbon intensity and impacts, understanding supply chains, and assessing customer objectives and willingness to pay.
• Conduct client meetings, managing internal and external communications, and ensuring high quality and on-time deliverables for projects.
• Support writing for external audiences and/or speaking engagements related to corporate decarbonization, CDR and emissions abatement.
• Contribute to a team culture driven by collaboration, intellectual curiosity, accountability, and empathy.
• Prepare progress reports, feasibility studies, and other required documents for internal and external stakeholders and clients.