What is Sylvera anyway? ‍👩‍👨🌳

Sylvera provides carbon data for genuine climate impact. Our mission is to incentivize investment in real climate action.

Purchasing credits through the carbon markets is one of the most established and scalable ways to channel finance from the private sector to effective climate solutions and work toward societal net zero. Unfortunately, the voluntary carbon markets have been plagued with mistrust and a lack of effectiveness since they’ve emerged – until Sylvera.

To help organizations ensure they're making the most effective investments, Sylvera builds software that independently and accurately automates the evaluation of carbon projects that capture, remove, or avoid emissions. With Sylvera's data and tools, businesses and governments can confidently invest in, benchmark, deliver, and report real climate impact.

Our team is made up of leading minds in climate change from scientists to policy, finance and carbon market experts. We work in partnership with scientific organisations, universities, governments and think tanks to develop and test rigorous and holistic ratings methodologies, leveraging the latest technology. Founded in 2020, Sylvera has employees worldwide with offices in London, New York, Belgrade and Singapore. We’ve raised over $96million from leading VCs like Balderton Capital, Index Ventures and Insight Partners to date.

What will I be doing? ‍‍👩‍💻👨‍💻

Having found an early product-market fit in a nascent, rapidly growing space, we’re now expanding our expertise and insights at pace. We’re looking for a mission-driven leader with an academic or extensive industrial background in nature-based solutions (NBS), forestry, agriculture and/or biomass quantification to manage and coordinate the development of our NBS project assessment methodologies. It’s a critical role at the heart of our business - you’ll coordinate with leaders across Sylvera and within the industry regularly. Your leadership will be critical in positioning Sylvera as a leader in the VCM and in driving innovations in Sylvera’s analytical breadth. You will report to the VP of Assessment Products.

Specific responsibilities will include:

- Develop and execute the company’s strategy for the assessment of NBS technologies, aligning with our mission and market opportunities; identifying emerging trends and novel approaches.

- Execute strategy across multidisciplinary teams of engineers, scientists, and analysts dedicated to advancing Sylvera’s assessment capabilities in the NBS space.

- Oversee the delivery of new and updated NBS frameworks across our Screenings, Ratings and Pre-issuance Assessments integrating the latest research and data.

- Support strategic commercial engagements with clients and prospective accounts with NBS knowledge and Sylvera analysis, where relevant.

- Collaborate with our Marketing Team to produce insightful sector research, demonstrating Sylvera’s expertise, analysis, and thought leadership related to NBS.

- Build and support strategic partnerships with technology providers, data providers, research institutions, project developers and industry stakeholders.

- Represent Sylvera at industry conferences, workshops, and events, advocating for the adoption of transparency with NBS projects and expanding our industry presence.

- Work with the members of Sylvera’s Tech Advisory Board, where relevant.