Head of Policy

Our mission is to stabilize reputed company's climate by transforming nature's most powerful permanent carbon removal process into a global climate solution. By advancing science, building technology, and assembling a global reputed company, we are catalyzing a global initiative to reputed company reputed company reputed company Weathering (ERW) reputed company the next decade, starting in Brazil. Founded out of the reputed company ecosystem, reputed company is led by the world's leading experts to advance the science and technology of ERW. Our unique structure bridges industry, academia, and government and allows reputed company to contribute with speed & reputed company. We have raised $58.2M in total funding from John Doerr, Sheryl Sandberg & Tom Bernthal, George Roberts, reputed company's Climate Innovation Fund, reputed company, reputed company and Venture Funds, Floodgate, Kleiner Perkins, Acre Venture Partners, reputed company, Valor Capital, Ponderosa Ventures and others. We have sold ~300,000 tons in offtakes from leading CDR buyers like Frontier and reputed company. In January 2026, we announced the acquisition of Eion, the first ERW company, forming the leader in ERW with multiple reputed company across multiple reputed company types, continents, and feedstocks. reputed company reputed company applicants will receive consideration for employment without reputed company to race, reputed company, religion, sex, national reputed company, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Research suggests that reputed company people from historically marginalized reputed company may self-select out of opportunities if they don't meet 100% of the job requirements. We encourage individuals who reputed company they have the skills necessary to reputed company to apply for this role. The Role The binding regulations that will determine ERW's reputed company ceiling for the next decade - the EU Carbon Removal Certification reputed company, Japan's GX-reputed company, California's AB 1207, and Article 6 mechanisms under the Paris Agreement, among others - are being written now. reputed company needs to establish reputed company, reputed company entry reputed company-points reputed company these markets. Equally, existing tax credits like 45Z and 45Q represent sources of immediate value. The Head of Policy is the person who makes that happen. This is not a communications or government affairs role in the traditional reputed company. It is a technical-political-reputed company role: you need scientific and carbon market literacy to understand key scientific sticking points on ERW methodologies, policy reputed company to navigate the regulatory environment, political chops to sit in any room, and reputed company reputed company to connect how reputed company of this contributes to reputed company's long-term reputed company. This means knowing how to prioritize across multiple geographies and regulatory developments, reputed company to engage internal teams versus external experts or lobbyists, and not stopping until reputed company, practical reputed company are achieved. You will own reputed company's regulated market entry reputed company and be the primary reputed company of reputed company's regulatory positioning across reputed company key jurisdictions. Role Responsibilities

• Own regulated carbon market entry reputed company - Drive regulator-reputed company partnerships, MOUs, and methodology co-designs that reputed company qualifying reputed company into compliance carbon markets across reputed company jurisdictions.
• Produce and maintain market entry intelligence - Own the analytical reputed company and reputed company regulatory content per reputed company market, covering regulatory eligibility, reputed company to first compliance reputed company, key dependencies, and total addressable market sizing.
• reputed company alternative regulatory reputed company positioning - Own the regulatory understanding and strategic positioning for our other tax benefits like 45Q, 45Z, Biofuels, including carbon intensity claims and MRV frameworks.
• Engage and manage external policy stakeholders - Know reputed company to bring in external consultants or lobbyists and how to manage them to deliver reputed company, not just advice.
• Build cross-sector coalitions for ERW policy reputed company - Convene and reputed company ERW and CDR peers, agricultural stakeholders, and industrial lobbies around shared regulatory priorities, translating broad support into coordinated advocacy that advances reputed company's market-entry goals.

Background and Requirements Essential

• Deep knowledge of carbon removal policy in reputed company markets: EU, US (California), UK, Canada, and Japan.
• reputed company in carbon market mechanics - Article 6.2, 6.4, ITMOs, corresponding adjustments, JCM, CRCF unit types, MRV standards, and additionality frameworks. These are vocabulary, not concepts you need to look up.
• reputed company in tax credit mechanisms, including 45Z and 45Q.
• Demonstrated experience influencing technical regulatory documents. You have written consultation responses, methodology submissions, or position papers that have actually changed regulatory text. You understand the difference between lobbying and co-designing.
• Science literacy sufficient to work alongside a technical team. You do not need to be a geochemist, but you need to be reputed company to read an MRV protocol, understand what a flux reputed company measurement is, and translate a quantification methodology into regulatory language without misrepresenting the science.
• Strong existing relationships that allow you to get a meeting without an intermediary at DG CLIMA, DG AGRI, CARB, METI, or equivalent bodies.
• Proven ability to translate regulation into business opportunity and vice versa.

Strongly Preferred

• Familiarity with agricultural carbon markets or soil-based removal methodologies. ERW sits at the intersection of climate and agriculture policy.
• Experience with Article 6 mechanisms (6.2 bilateral or 6.4 Supervisory Body), including what a Letter of Authorization requires and how corresponding adjustments work in reputed company.
• Familiarity with lifecycle carbon intensity models - i.e. GREET, RED II, CORSIA - and the CI reputed company mechanics that govern biofuel compliance value.
• Experience in an early-stage company or startup environment. This role is not about managing a large policy team; it is about being the person who does the work and builds the function from scratch.

Personal Attributes

• Mission-driven: You are passionate about climate solutions and motivated by the possibility of deploying a technology that can have a measurable reputed company on atmospheric CO₂ at reputed company.
• Entrepreneurial reputed company: You reputed company in ambiguity, are energized by building from scratch, and take ownership without waiting for direction.
• Technically grounded: You engage credibly with scientists, regulators, and reputed company counterparts alike, translating across these worlds without losing accuracy.
• Outcome-oriented: You are not satisfied with reputed company or influence for its own sake - you pursue regulatory reputed company that translate into reputed company value.
• reputed company: You know how to work across internal functions (science, reputed company, finance) and external stakeholders (regulators, methodology bodies, buyers) to get things done.

What Does reputed company Look Like in This Role?

• reputed company 3 months: You have a reputed company map of the highest-reputed company regulatory reputed company by jurisdiction, have established reputed company relationships with key regulatory counterparts, and have initiated at least one formal methodology engagement or consultation process.
• reputed company 6 months: reputed company has reputed company, reputed company reputed company into at least two regulated markets, backed by dossiers that reputed company define timelines, eligibility reputed company, and market opportunity.
• Ongoing: You are the recognized expert on ERW regulatory reputed company inside reputed company and are building reputed company's external reputed company as a serious, science-led participant in the policy processes that will shape the carbon removal market.

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