Remote Frontier Diligence Lead

Summary

Join Stripe's Frontier team as a Diligence Lead to help deploy funds to catalyze carbon removal companies, source suppliers, negotiate deals, and manage diligence processes.

Requirements

• BA or BS degree
• 7-10 years of relevant experience in commercialization, project development, or late-stage deep tech investing
• Excellent oral and written communication skills - and in particular, you are adept at translating technical jargon into layman’s terms and summarizing complex concepts in a succinct manner
• Excellent quantitative skills, including experience with techno-economic analysis and intuition for pressure testing the cost drivers for a business

Responsibilities

• Source and evaluate high-potential carbon removal suppliers across a wide range of stages, approaches, and geographies
• Negotiate large carbon removal offtake deals, average deal size being ~$30-40M
• Manage end-to-end diligence process on 1-4 suppliers at any given time
• Work with a network of technical experts to vet technology performance and potential
• Write compelling purchase recommendations for Frontier buyers that synthesize application materials
• Support Frontier portfolio companies post-agreement in quarterly check-ins, investor calls, letters of support, etc
• Help shape Frontier’s overall purchase strategy and by-pathway theses

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD in a climate-relevant scientific or engineering discipline
• First-hand experience building/scaling real-world technology and businesses
• Experience allocating large budgets towards frontier technologies (such as VC or government grant programs like ARPA-E)
• Have a deep understanding of the landscape of carbon removal technologies and the techno-economics of large scale carbon capture and storage systems
• You’re an exceptionally fast learner. You enjoy (and have experience) quickly ramping on new technical topics
• You’re uniquely good at getting to the crux of an issue, and can quickly sort the signal from the noise
• You are low ego, and have a proven track record for working well across teams and with external partners

Benefits

Must be based in the United States. San Francisco and Seattle are preferred