Driven By Impact 🌱

Edition 20: January 2023

Last week we hosted a webinar on making your job a climate job with panelists from Project Drawdown, Climate Club, Brown Girl Green, and LinkedIn.

How To Make Your Job a Climate Job:

🌱 Be the voice of your company! Speak up about changes you would like made.
🌱 Make connections with the decision makers and leverage them for climate action.
🌱 Get involved with your organization's green employee resource group, if you don't have one, try to get one off the ground.
🌱 Use your professional development stipends for certifications/courses and apply that knowledge when pleading your sustainability case.

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→ How to craft your hiring philosophy! Three tips for hiring managers.
→ A day in the life of a Software Engineer in Climate. An AMA session with Lowell Bander!
→ ClimateTech amidst the big tech layoffs. Here's Climate People's take!

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→ Looking for a job in climate? Check out some of the Climate Career Week Sessions.
→ How to Optimize your job search for climate. + a LinkedIn workshop.
‍→ Ace your job search. Hear from climate hiring managers!
‍→ The state of Climate Tech in '22. Read more!

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Soil As a Climate Solution!
Soil, yes soil, is one of the most critical natural resources and solutions to climate change!

The problem? There is too much CO2 in the atmosphere and not enough in our soils. Since the industrial age, soils have lost 20-60% of their carbon.

We are preventing some of this harm by transitioning to regenerative agriculture practices. Many companies are also working to enhance soil sequestration abilities, pull carbon directly from our atmosphere, and allow it to serve as a carbon sink.

→ Read more

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🪴 DIRECTOR OF HARDWARE ENGINEER
We're hiring a Director of Engineering with experience in equipment design and production. This leader will play a critical role in establishing our client as the cutting-edge producer of industrial bioreactors and will lead team(s) responsible for the design, manufacturing, and rapid prototyping.

🪴 DEVOPS ENGINEER
A DevOps role with a seed-staged remote sensing technology company on a mission to speed up the global transition to a net zero economy. With deep expertise in AI & ML, they use industry-leading technology to provide accurate and scalable measurements of carbon anywhere in the world.

🪴 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING LEAD
We are partnering with an innovative ClimateTech startup, building a groundbreaking modular carbon capture system for the built environment. This system makes it easy to measure and mitigate GHG at the source and provides a real-time, actionable data platform for building owners to have unprecedented visibility into this data. They are a fast-growing startup seeking a Software Engineering Lead who can help build the product and contribute to the company's mission and culture.

🪴 ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE - ENERGY AND UTILITIES
A geographically distributed SaaS company on a mission to reduce fossil fuel usage on our power grids. This rapidly growing team of 10 is looking for a passionate Account Executive who cares deeply about the effects of fossil fuels on our environment.

🪴 SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Our customer is hiring its first SWE to build critical software to connect the brain of their modeling system to the bioreactor hardware. This is a fantastic opportunity for a senior/lead-level engineer with experience writing software for industrial automation or similar hardware applications.

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Here are some of our top pre-vetted and mission-driven candidates. If you're interested in someone, click request information on the anonymous profile and we will make an introduction!

👤🌱 LEAD SOFTWARE ENGINEER CANDIDATE
They enjoy using design patterns and everyday practices when programming to create readable and extensible programs. They prefer to use existing solutions rather than reinventing the wheel. Lead Engineer for greenfield initiatives in the FinTech space.

👤🌱 SOFTWARE ENGINEER CANDIDATE
Graduated Summa Cum Laude from UCLA and has since been an impactful member of 2 startups over their six-year career. An advocate for DEI, they have contributed to women's leadership groups and DEI task forces. In addition, they were one of the longest-standing billing team members - handling their API platform - during which time they led multiple projects and saw promotion to Sr. Software Engineer by the end of their four years.

👤🌱 HEAD OF SALES CANDIDATE
Head of Sales who has experience joining both Y Combinator and Techstars-backed companies as their first sales hire. Their expertise lies in closing key customers and quickly scaling ARR to $1M+ in 6-18 months. In addition, their work has enabled three companies to close their Series A funding.

👤🌱 DATA ENGINEER CANDIDATE
Our candidate is a Data Engineer with a specific background in geospatial data. They code in python and build out data flow pipelines. They are passionate about staying in the climate sector!

👤🌱 SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER CANDIDATE
Impact-driven health technologies professional looking to pivot into a role that promotes ecological sustainability. Following graduating from Brown with honors, they ascended to a Sr. Software Engineering role within two years. Most recently served as a tech lead for a 15-person project that unified accounts across two companies after a corporate merger - focused on data services.

That's all for this edition! Stay tuned for next month's roundup. Thanks for doing your part in mobilizing a workforce transition to work on climate!