We have to accelerate our transition to a clean energy economy because winning slowly is the same as losing. If we do not rapidly cut our emissions, we risk triggering climate tipping points that would have irreversible consequences. Every moment counts.
Galvanize Climate Solutions (“Galvanize”) was founded to be part of the solution. Galvanize combines investment, technical, policy, and communications expertise under one roof. We are organized to create investment strategies across seed, venture, and expansion, to support companies vital to decarbonizing our society. Our investments will be amplified by the Galvanize suite of portfolio services, tailored to be relevant to companies critical to decarbonization.
Vice President, Science and Technology
As Vice President, Science and Technology you will be a core member of Galvanize’s internal scientific and technical think tank. You will lead technical diligence on potential portfolio companies, ensuring Galvanize is making the highest quality investments. In order to advance Galvanize’s existing portfolio companies towards highest impact, you will work hand and hand with Founders, CEO’s, and management teams to provide technical guidance, support, and connections. You will utilize your creative and logical thinking abilities to research possible investment strategies with the investment team. You will be part of a vibrant, happy, supportive, and impact-driven work culture that values work-life balance.
Galvanize highly values a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and personality types. We are seeking an individual with core technical expertise in vehicle design, batteries, grid optimization, infrastructure, or adjacent spaces. We have a preference for individuals who have real world product experience and understand the challenges of fielding early stage technologies and taking them to scale. We have a preference for an individual with techno-economic analysis skills.
Requirements:
- Provide rapid, thorough, technical, techno-economic, and (carbon) impact diligence of potential investment targets. The focus will be on vehicle design, batteries, grid optimization, infrastructure, or adjacent space. Assist in quickly completing competitive analyses.
- Provide thought leadership by supporting Galvanize’s senior leadership in the development of cross-fund investment strategies. Identify high impact areas of investment by assisting in the gathering, analyzing and visualization of life cycle carbon emissions data for major sectors.
- Conduct quick, high-level techno-economic analysis as part of early diligence and in-depth, detailed techno-economic analysis to support portfolio companies.
- Be relentlessly helpful in supporting portfolio companies as they tackle technical challenges. Assist Galvanize team in designing the most impactful portfolio services offerings possible. Help with designing and managing technical milestones embedded within terms signed with new portfolio teams.
- Conduct rapid assessments of the near-term and long-term climate impact associated with potential portfolio companies. Develop tools and a modeling framework to quantify low, med, high scenarios.
- As the technical team grows, assist in intentionally and actively recruiting both top talent and a diverse team from under represented groups in venture and technical roles.
Qualifications:
- Masters or Ph.D. in relevant field
- Product design,development and fielding experience
- Passion for personal impact on climate
- Friendly and kind attitude, willingness to learn, aim to support and lift colleagues up
- Familiarity with the global energy-climate system and decarbonization pathways
- The ability to understand and articulate complex trade-offs within our broader energy-climate system through both written and visual forms of communication
