Incite Post | A Lot of Jobs, and a Lot of Prize Money
Incite Community,
World-positive careers offer job security, are immensely rewarding and not to mention, lucrative. In this edition of the Incite Post, we’re focused on showcasing opportunities for impactful careers, alongside a conversation with our friends at Climate Draft, a member coalition connecting top tier talent to climate tech startups and VCs to accelerate the speed of climate innovation.
But, before that, a quick note on another exciting opportunity. Want to win $1M? Are you working on an innovative climate solution to empower climate resilience?
Incite.org has partnered with IDEO, CSAA and Aon to launch the Climate Resiliency Challenge, seeking out solutions to empower frontline communities to prevent, prepare for, and recover from the most urgent climate-related disasters, like wildfires, floods, and extreme weather. The Climate Resiliency Challenge is informed by our belief that ‘open innovation’ – a participatory, decentralized approach to innovation – offers a unique, empowering format to tackle some of our world’s toughest challenges. When we open opportunities to submit world-changing solutions to anyone, and build systems that encourage collaboration, feedback, and engagement, we expand what we conceive as possible. A total of $1 million in prizes will be awarded to the most novel, innovative solutions.
That’s the driving theory of change behind this challenge (+ there’s a lot of prize money!); If you’re reading this, chances are you’re a good fit. Learn more here.
Team Incite
Jobs
Highlights
Exciting career opportunities you won’t want to miss
Heirloom Carbon
Head of Legal
Guardian of Contracts, Interpreter of Legalese
Limelight Steel
VP of Engineering
Built a lot of Legos sets?
Rubi Labs
Chief of Staff
For the to-do list maven in your life
Zero Acre Farms
Director of People
Building company culture(d oil)
Carbon180
Managing Director of Programs
Chief Juggler
But wait... there's more...
Sylvatex
Revolutionizing Cathodes
Zero Acre Farms
Culturing Better Cooking Oil
Heirloom Carbon
Sinking Carbon in Limestone
Lead Modeling and Simulation Engineer
Ebb Carbon
Unlocking Ocean Carbon Removal
Senior Instrument and Controls Engineer
Software Engineer (Full-stack)
Galy
Building Cellular Agriculture
Charm Industrial
Putting oil (CO2) back in the ground
Robigo
Growing Better Food
Vice President of Research & Development
Director of Regulatory Science
Limelight Steel
Decarbonizing Steel
Climate Draft Spotlight
Co-Founder & CEO, Climate Draft
We sat down with Jonathan Strauss, co-founder and CEO of Climate Draft, a coalition of startups and VCs working together to mobilize talent to work on climate through a comprehensive job board, a talent directory to network with venture-backed climate tech startups and multiple self-serve climate resources. If you’re considering a career in climate, join their network here.
- Why did you decide to launch Climate Draft and how does the organization fit in the overall climate ecosystem?Like so many ideas, Climate Draft was born out of the personal experiences my friend and co-founder Joel Wishkovsky and I had when we were both looking to transition our careers from tech to climate. We each found the process of figuring out how to have meaningful climate impact with our work extremely challenging. Climate Draft’s theory of change is simple: if we can make it meaningfully easier for people to get involved in climate tech, more and better people will come. We do that both by creating a more accessible front door for people interested in learning about climate tech, primarily by aggregating and curating relevant resources in a single destination, and through proactive outreach to audiences of specific value to climate tech startups. Our structure as a coalition of VCs collaborating to attract more valuable resources for climate tech startups enables us to take a uniquely non-transactional approach to movement building.
- As the demand for climate talent grows and in lieu of recent tech layoffs, what trends are you noticing across job seekers and climate opportunities? How can professionals leverage Climate Draft resources to differentiate their tech skillset and expertise, enabling a seamless transition to climate?Every company, including ones in climate tech, needs people who know how to run businesses and build software, and our job is to get the world’s top talent interested in applying their skills in climate. It's also important to acknowledge the orders of magnitude difference in the current size of the tech industry, with some of the largest employers on earth, and the fast growing but still nascent climate tech space. That means the volume and often seniority of talent needed in climate tech today can’t match the hundreds of thousands of roles in tech impacted by layoffs. It’s improving every day as the space grows and matures, but there are now certain roles in climate tech where highly qualified supply outstrips demand (for the moment).
- Over this past year, Climate Draft has launched multiple community-led networking events and a climate career week, playing a critical role in connecting top-tier talent with impactful opportunities. Why has this model of organizing talent worked and where are there limitations? How does Climate Draft balance the promotion of individual career advancement with the need for collective action in addressing climate change?We’ve generally found that climate doomerism is one of the biggest barriers to individual action on climate, professionally or personally. What’s made Climate Draft’s approach successful is our focus on showing tangible examples of how much progress we’re making in climate tech, often in impactful areas most people have never contemplated (like reducing food waste :-) ). We’re very aware and upfront that venture-backed climate tech is only one part of what’s needed to address climate change. In addition to startup-led innovations in decarbonization, meeting our collective climate goals requires massive progress from corporates, governments, and NGOs, and all of them need more great mission-driven talent as well as funding and public support. We believe that making more people aware of how climate tech innovations are fundamentally transforming the relationship between sustainability and abundance will inspire them to be more constructively engaged with climate issues in other aspects of their lives.
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