Welcome to Perennial.

Perennial is building the world’s leading verification platform for soil-based carbon removal. Our vision is to unlock soil as the world’s largest carbon sink. To do that, we are building trusted standards, tools, and technologies to help verify climate-smart agriculture.

Perennial uses the world’s most advanced remote measurement technology for soil carbon sequestration and emissions. We fuse machine learning, ground observations, and satellite data to map soil carbon and land-based GHG emissions at continent-level scales. This technology is powering the future of climate-smart agriculture and helping the food supply chain decarbonize.

At Perennial, you will work in a mission-driven and collaborative environment alongside a diverse team with backgrounds spanning science, technology, carbon markets, and agriculture.

Our offices are located in Boulder, CO USA and Adelaide, SA Australia. We are a fully-flexible company for remote and hybrid work.

We’re venture-backed by mission-aligned investors including Temasek, Bloomberg, Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund, SineWave Ventures, Alumni Ventures Group, and Collaborative Fund.

About the Role:

As a Head of Climate Policy, you will be responsible for establishing and maintaining Perennial’s compliance within carbon markets. In this role, you will work closely with senior leadership, including the CEO, head of product, and head of strategy to develop innovative approaches to registry compliance and nature-based project development.

What You'll Own:

• Cultivate relationships with strategic partners in the voluntary and compliance carbon market sectors
• Drive approval of novel MRV (measurement, reporting, and verification) technology within the voluntary and compliance carbon markets across the globe
• Work with carbon offset buyers and soil carbon offset developers to drive adoption of novel methodologies and MRV technology
• Lead cooperation with external parties, including but not limited to, policy working groups, to proliferate Perennial’s core principles across the broader carbon markets
• Publish findings, strategies, and methodological developments in public journals and groups
• Support Perennial in educating carbon emitters and the broader set of stakeholders on how nature-based offsets represent a practical path to meeting emission reduction ambitions 

What You'll Bring:

• 4+ years of experience in carbon markets, carbon project development, carbon registries, or similar
• Prior relationships within the carbon policy space, including registries, project developers, and standard setters
• A creative and innovative mindset with the desire to help shape the future of nature-based carbon policy
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills

What will make you stand out:

• Prior work experience at a carbon registry
• Prior policy role within carbon markets
• Working relationships with carbon offset buyers
• Prior experience with nature-based carbon offset projects
• Prior work experience in financial markets
• Demonstrated experience bringing new technologies to market

You’ll love working at Perennial because:

• We live by our Core Values.
  • Speak your truths, welcome new voices.
  • Celebrate your successes, own your mistakes.
  • Solve important problems.
  • Invest in each other.
  • Build for the future.
  • Get your hands dirty!

• We challenge the status quo. We’re a group of people who want to create the changes we hope to see in the world. See some of our recent press about the problems we’re committed to solving. 

• We invest in your life. We want to provide you with resources to meet your needs both in and outside of work. We offer generous PTO, health, vision, dental, 401k, and HSA benefits and a fully stocked kitchen to keep your mind sharp throughout the day.

• We want you to grow. We are a team that supports each others’ professional and intellectual growth. You’ll have access to regular opportunities to learn from teammates and invest in your professional development.

• We offer competitive compensation packages. Our team is our most valuable asset. We want everyone who works for us to feel fairly compensated for the impact they bring to our mission. The team member in this role can expect a starting salary in the range of $150,000-210,000 alongside equity in the company.

• Perennial is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate and embrace diversity and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of experiences, backgrounds, and skills. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.