Climate Integrity Lead

Patch is seeking a Climate Integrity Lead in San Francisco, CA, to enhance trust and transparency in carbon markets. The role involves collaborating with ecosystem partners, providing technical expertise, and developing commercial relationships. Candidates should have experience in sustainability and carbon markets, and be willing to work in-office part-time while also being open to occasional travel. Patch offers competitive compensation and a supportive work environment.
About Patch:

A livable future depends on climate solutions — and those solutions need funding to scale. There is a financial mechanism powerful enough to help drive climate solutions to gigatonne-scale and beyond: carbon credits.

Patch combines technology and carbon markets expertise to help companies build and execute their carbon credit strategies. Our platform supports buyers with defining or refining their approach to the voluntary carbon market, and executing on their goals with high-integrity projects. We have helped hundreds of companies meet their sustainability goals while accelerating climate solutions.

About Position:

Patch is looking for an experienced climate and strategy professional to fortify Patch’s marketplace as an Integrity Lead. This role will partner with and support carbon project suppliers, entrepreneurs, and technologists on the cutting edge of carbon removal and carbon markets. You’ll build strong relationships with new and existing supply and ecosystem partners to build new ways to enhance trust, integrity, and transparency in carbon markets.

What You’ll Do:
• Act as an integrity subject matter expert for technical climate questions, project diligence, and supplier onboarding assessments, representing the network of supply/project developer partners to the greater Patch team while delivering relevant and valuable market insights.
• Develop and own commercial relationships with ecosystem partners elevating integrity, trust, and transparency in carbon credits.
• Collaborate across Patch’s GTM, Engineering, Product, Design, and Partnerships teams to achieve commercial objectives.
• Strategize and operationalize new business processes across Patch’s supplier network.
• Facilitate a positive, partner-obsessed experience with your team members and customers.

Who You Are:
• You have significant years of technical or academic experience directly working with a variety of stakeholders in sustainability or climate-related fields like carbon removal, voluntary carbon markets, or adjacent industries.
• You are willing to roll up your sleeves and work directly with external suppliers and internal teams to build and iterate upon Patch’s integrity process.
• You have a great grasp of the various carbon project technologies, participants, suppliers, and market trends.
• You can think strategically about adding value to existing and prospective partners and team members through market insights developed internally and externally.
• You have a strong track record of independently delivering work and influencing the work of others.
• You have experience communicating value to a number of existing and prospective partners and team members through market insights developed internally and externally.
• You are willing and able to travel occasionally to client locations to build and support relationships
• You are willing and able to work from the Hayes Valley office in San Francisco, California a few days a week.

Why Patch:
• Work with the most talented team in climate tech
• Competitive compensation and meaningful equity
• Monthly wellness stipend for mental and physical health
• Time-off as-needed vacation policy
• Generous parental leave policy

Commitment to Diversity: Patch is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant, candidate, or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital/domestic partner status, military or veteran status, genetic information or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.

If you are extended an offer, that offer may be contingent upon your successful completion of a background check, which will be conducted in accordance with applicable laws. We may obtain one or more background screening reports about you, solely for employment purposes.