Head of Pre-Issuance Solutions

What is Sylvera anyway? ‍👩‍👨🌳

Sylvera provides carbon data for genuine climate impact. Our mission is to incentivize investment in real climate action. 

Purchasing credits through the carbon markets is one of the most established and scalable ways to channel finance from the private sector to effective climate solutions and work toward societal net zero. Unfortunately, the voluntary carbon markets have been plagued with mistrust and a lack of effectiveness since they’ve emerged – until Sylvera. 

To help organizations ensure they're making the most effective investments, Sylvera builds software that independently and accurately automates the evaluation of carbon projects that capture, remove, or avoid emissions. With Sylvera's data and tools, businesses and governments can confidently invest in, benchmark, deliver, and report real climate impact. 

Our team is made up of leading minds in climate change from scientists to policy, finance and carbon market experts. We work in partnership with scientific organisations, universities, governments and think tanks to develop and test rigorous and holistic ratings methodologies, leveraging the latest technology. Founded in 2020, Sylvera has 150+ employees across the world with offices in London, New York, Belgrade and Singapore. We’ve raised over $96million from leading VCs like Balderton Capital, Index Ventures and Insight Partners to date. 

What will I be doing? ‍‍👩‍💻👨‍💻

Having found an early product-market fit in a nascent, rapidly growing space, we’re now expanding our project insights at pace. We’re looking for a mission-driven leader to manage and coordinate the delivery of leading edge insights to customers for early stage (“pre-issuance”) projects being developed. It’s a critical role at the heart of our business - you’ll coordinate with the leaders of a number of divisions on a daily basis and with leaders across Sylvera every week.

Specific responsibilities will include:

Coordinating the delivery of pre-issuance project insights to ensure critical delivery schedules are met and owning the associated stakeholder management, including customer and developer engagements where necessary Identifying and executing the most efficient way to generate early stage project and project type insights at scale, incl. working with Tech colleagues to leverage automation and data to drive insights Iterating our pre-issuance deliverables to ensure the content remains at the market leading edge and of the highest utility to our customers Identifying recurring client needs and ensuring those are met in the most efficient manner, spotting opportunities to leverage existing, under development and to-be-proposed Sylvera products Managing and scaling a team of Carbon Project Analysts and market specialists, contributing towards their development and training, and instilling best and compliant Ratings practices where applicable Being ultimately accountable for the insights surfaced to customers, and responsible for any subsequent communication with market participants and journalists about our pre-issuance insights or Sylvera’s analytical approach

We’re looking for someone who: 🧠💚

Has experience managing a team focussed on rapid delivery and iteration, with proven ability to motivate and focus on personal development  Has results-oriented project and team management capabilities; able to lead and execute effectively with capacity to translate big ideas into action Looks for continuous improvement opportunities in terms of ways of working, tooling & processes, output, esp. in terms of driving repeatability, consistency and velocity Has a strong sense of customer empathy, seeks to understand customer context and address their specific needs Has excellent communication skills, and demonstrable experience managing cross-functional and external stakeholder relationships Fast learner, self-starter, intellectually curious, quantitative and ready to get up-to-speed in a complex and technical domain; a keen interest and awareness of the Voluntary Carbon Market and international and political affairs Is excited to help with the development and introduction of new products 

We’d like someone highly ambitious, motivated and eager to propel their career forward. We prioritise grit, positivity, and the willingness to get stuck in, and encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match this job description

Benefits 💰

- Equity in a rapidly growing startup

- Private Health Insurance and Life Assurance 

- Unlimited annual leave - and encouragement to actually use it!

- Enhanced parental leave 

- Up to 20 days paid sick leave 

- £500 WFH allowance 

- No corners cut in having the best tech to do your job

- Access to Mental Health support via Spill

- Monthly team socials

Location 🌍 

UK (with access to an office in London if you wanted to come in) 

Our Values 🙌

Own it: We make new mistakes. We build on the momentum of our wins and reflect on and learn from our failures.

Stay curious: We keep our focus on the long-term, even if that means short-term challenges.

Do what’s right - even when it’s hard: We take a growth mindset to our work, our customers, our market and the opportunities ahead of us. 

Collaborate and challenge with empathy: Our teams deliver through active collaboration. We invest in each others’ success and make the company stronger in the long-run.

Empower Customers: Make extraordinary efforts to exceed our customer expectations. If we’re serving our customers to the fullest, we can help direct more investment into real climate impact.

What if you’re a partial fit? 🌱

We prioritise grit, positivity, and the willingness to get stuck in, and encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match this job description. 

Equal employment opportunity 🌈

Sylvera is an equal opportunity employer: we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.