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
You will be a key Supply & Climate team member, reporting directly to our Director of Supply and Operations. This role offers the chance to collaborate with a diverse team of PhD climate scientists, former consultants, and startup experts on cutting-edge technologies aimed at addressing one of humanity’s greatest challenges.
Your primary focus will be sourcing top-tier project suppliers and selling them on the value of partnering with Supercritical. You’ll work closely with the climate science team to identify and vet promising projects and with the sales team to match the right projects to large deals with our enterprise customers.
This is a managerial role from day one. You will be responsible for helping your reports to develop and attracting top talent to join as we scale.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Management of Supply Pipelines and Team Operations
- Identifying future project supplier winners and convincing them of Supercritical’s value
- Develop and maintain a robust pipeline of high-quality Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) projects, ensuring a consistent flow of opportunities.
- Work closely with the sales team to align projects with deals, enhancing the effectiveness of sales strategies and achieving business targets.
- Oversee the delivery of supplier quarterly business reviews and maintain up-to-date information on pricing and availability.
2. Lead Strategic Cross-Team Projects and Drive Process Improvement
- Partner with the Supply & Climate teams to identify opportunities for process improvement and lead the effort to streamline and automate these processes.
- Collaborate with the Tech team to launch new categories on our marketplace, integrating innovative tools and features that enhance user experience and supplier engagement.
- Initiate and manage key projects that introduce new tools or offerings, making our marketplace a more attractive proposition for suppliers and enhancing our competitive edge.
3. Team Leadership and Development:
- Lead and mentor two team members from the start, supporting their professional growth and development.
- Drive the recruitment, onboarding and mentoring of top talent as the team expands.
