Head of Carbon

Who we are

Vycarb is a growing team of engineers, scientists, and industry experts focused on building and scaling real climate solutions through our innovations in water-based carbon storage and sensing. With our core technology successfully demonstrated, we are now entering an exciting phase of scaling up—through larger deployments, industrial integration, and new applications - to remove and store more carbon faster. We’re looking for experienced, mission-driven people to join our team, help us scale, and shape a new chapter for global climate solutions.

The role

As Vycarb pursues ambitious and significant commercialization objectives in a rapidly evolving, nuanced and variable carbon industry, we are seeking a Head of Carbon with experience across carbon market incentives, mechanisms, and policies to lead our commercialization efforts. The Head of Carbon will navigate a constantly changing regulatory and financial environment to execute on complex, multi-party commercial agreements and further solidify our path to enabling global-scale climate solutions.. Specifically, the Head of Carbon will:

• Manage Vycarb’s carbon products from start to finish – taking a holistic view incorporating regulatory landscapes, market opportunities, legal restrictions, customer feedback, and finances to develop and execute on a strategy to maximize and access carbon market sales and revenue.
• Secure further carbon removal offtakes for Vycarb
• Work with appropriate accreditation and value chain partners to execute on revenue-generating carbon sequestration transactions
• Work with Vycarb’s executive team to secure pilot and development agreements with Vycarb’s commercial partners
• Develop a comprehensive carbon strategy for Vycarb, built on a deep understanding of specific carbon storage products and geared towards positioning Vycarb for long-term growth, profitability, and compliance
• Keep Vycarb’s executive team, board, and high-profile customers abreast of developments in carbon markets and relevant policy landscape with detailed and informed research and customer and regulatory relationship management
• Build and manage Vycarb’s carbon team, taking responsibility for team deliverables and professional development

Who you are

• Experienced in carbon transactions, policies, and financing in domestic and international landscapes, with > 5 years experience in a relevant role and industry
• An outstanding communicator (verbal and written; colloquial and technical). You can use these skills to succinctly convey Vycarb’s values to a range of carbon stakeholders for market-relevant outcomes including commercial agreements, financial assets, and legal decisions.
• You possess excellent analytical ability allowing them to interpret both quantitative and qualitative documents communicating a range of financial and legal information.

Details & compensation

• This is a full-time role based in our office in Brooklyn 
• Salary between $120,000 – $160,000 depending on experience, plus generous stock options
• Vycarb offers health benefits for full-time employees 
• We are looking to fill this position in Spring 2025

Working @ Vycarb

Vycarb is a diverse, dynamic company. We believe that hearing contrasting perspectives from a diverse team makes us better and helps us solve the wide range of challenges we encounter in our work – if you think you could be a great fit for this role, but don’t meet all of the requirements we’ve listed, we encourage you to still apply.