Minimum is a Y Combinator backed start-up, founded to tackle the biggest challenge currently facing humanity: how to get to the world to net zero carbon emissions before it's too late. We've raised a $2.6 million Seed round lead by Octopus Ventures to build the sustainability solutions of the future centred around a tool for understanding the carbon footprint of everything.
The first step on this journey is creating the simplest and most effective tools for a business to calculate and manage their carbon footprint. This already includes:
The Challenge
Engagement with Sustainability has never been higher, which is a great start, but it is still so difficult to do effectively. The world desperately needs accessible tools that allow businesses, individuals, investors, and governments to understand carbon emissions in sufficient depth to help them budget emissions, design reduction strategies, and, in the meantime, immediately start reducing their impact through scientifically-proven carbon offsetting. Minimum is building the tools to help people get started today. These tools will bring sustainability action into reach for everyone, in a highly scalable way, thereby closing the gap between sustainability engagement and sustainability action.
The Opportunity
You would be one of a small team of sustainability experts who work closely with Minimum's co-founders. Your role will be to get stuck in calculating carbon footprints, building our technical footprinting capabilities, working with the Product team to deliver automation to our customers, and growing the Sustainability team. It's highly likely that you would progress in seniority quickly.
You are joining a tight-knit, fast-paced team where everyone knows and cares about each other and what they're working on. You'll report to the James Parker, our founding sustainability lead - but it's likely that you'll interact very frequently with all the wider team.
The Skillset - Essentials
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The Skillset – ‘Nice to have’
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What the role will look like - from day one you'll:
What the role will look like - in the first year you'll have: