Director, Natural Climate Solutions

Mast Reforestation is seeking a Director of Natural Climate Solutions in Seattle, WA. The role requires expertise in nature-based solutions, forest asset management, and carbon credit registries. Responsibilities include developing carbon removal offerings, collaborating with teams on product strategy, and serving as a technical expert on certification. The position offers competitive salary, health benefits, and flexible PTO but is not remote.
Mast Reforestation, Silvaseed & Cal Forest offer:

- Competitive salary
- Location-based compensation
- 80% health insurance coverage for Full-Time non-seasonal employees, including Medical, Dental & Vision insurance plans
- Voluntary insurance plans with competitive premium rates: Pet insurance, Life insurance, Accidents.
- Company paid Short Term Disability insurance and Group Term Life insurance
- Company’s incentive stock options (ISO) for eligible employee groups
- Retirement saving plan: Sustainable 401(k) and Roth 401(k) with climate-focused investment options.
- Commuter Benefits in eligible cities
- 6 paid holidays. Two company-wide closing weeks per year.
- Flexible PTO for Salaried employees. Generous PTO accrual for Hourly employees.
- Allowances for out-of-state employees
- Relocation support for out-of-state employees
- Our Seattle office is dog friendly!

About You:
• You have direct experience working with nature-based solutions, specifically in forests or with relevant experience in agriculture, agroforestry, or other active terrestrial management activities.
• You have a deep understanding of forest asset management in temperate ecosystems (e.g. North America, Europe, New Zealand).
• You follow the carbon regulatory environment and have experience navigating the methodologies under the major carbon credit registries including: Verra, Gold Standard, Climate Action Reserve, Puro.earth, and American Carbon Registry.
• You’re actively or interested in tracking the policy evolution of organizations and coalitions in the carbon space such as SBTI, ICVCM, and are connected and capable of interfacing to provide information on how the company is evolving its product to these groups.
• You have a fundamental understanding of forestry assets and wood products markets, including an understanding of traditional forestry assets like timberland holdings and their revenue opportunities.
• You are experienced or well-informed on North American timber and fiber economics and associated financing mechanisms and return profiles.
• You’re experienced in iterative product development and collaborating across internal and external expert teams, providing technical expertise and ultimately helping deliver a product to market by achieving consistent and sustainable customer sales.
• You are a strong strategist who is able to contribute to the company's long-term vision and inform our product and market evolutions.What You'll Be Doing
• Serve as a key technical expert in developing nature-based carbon removal offerings informed by and responsive to carbon credit buyer feedback.
• Play a critical role as a subject matter expert in the development, testing, and execution of our biomass carbon product strategy and roadmap. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative products that align with business objectives and market needs.
• Become the go-to expert on certification-related subjects for the products you help develop and keep our company’s standard knowledge up to date across departments.
• Track relevant carbon standards’ latest developments and (co-)craft the appropriate perspectives, responses, processes or actions for Mast. Serve as a technical expert who works closely with our Carbon Markets Team to address carbon buyer questions through their detailed due diligence processes.
• Lend technical expertise to develop and maintain Mast’s detailed due diligence hub that addresses frequently asked buyer questions with answers that provide comprehensive details behind the scientific integrity of our offering.
• Serve as technical connective tissue between the Product Manager(s), Carbon Development team, and Sales Organizations.
• Work with internal and external experts to understand and influence regulatory compliance to guide the physical implementation of projects across 11 western states.Experience & Qualifications
• 3+ years of experience in carbon markets and a proven working knowledge of at least two carbon certification standards for reforestation, biochar, biomass burial projects (e.g., CAR, Verra, GS, ACR, Puro.earth, etc.).
• A graduate degree relevant to forestry, ecology, soil science, environmental or sustainability management OR comparable knowledge in relevant fields
• Proven ability to work and communicate cross-functionally across diverse disciplines from science to economics/ finance to sales
• Excellent analytical and organizational skills
• Strategic mindset that allows you to translate standards/methodologies and market signals into concrete product objectives, actions and desired outcomes.Highly desirable if you have:
• You have direct hands-on experience in biochar production, and/or biomass burial and the evaluation, exploration and/or development of forest biomass related carbon sequestration products.
• Substantive work experience in forestry, agroforestry, civil engineering, waste management, physical/biological/hardware product development
• Experience scaling a business in an early or mid-stage company
• Worked in asset-intensive industries