Finance & Strategy Associate

Vaulted Deep

Location: Houston or Remote; hybrid work

About Vaulted

Vaulted is an emerging leader in permanent carbon removal. As a Biomass Carbon Removal and Storage (BiCRS) solution, Vaulted delivers permanent, high quality carbon removal at scale through the geologic sequestration of carbon-filled organic waste.

Vaulted’s approach is designed to be the lowest cost, gigaton scale, permanent carbon removal. We sequester sludgy organic wastes (biosolids, manure, agricultural, food waste, paper sludge, etc.) that today are sent to a landfill, dumped into an ocean/river, land applied, or otherwise left to decompose, releasing Green House Gases (GHGs) into the atmosphere. Vaulted leverages a suite of patented, mature, geologic slurry sequestration technologies which allow us to sequester organic waste with minimal processing. We inject deep under the earth’s surface, where the carbon is permanently trapped under a layer of impermeable rock - the same formations that have kept hydrocarbons underground for millions of years. We have two permitted, operational facilities allowing us to reach near-term meaningful scale.

Our carbon removal goes beyond vaulting carbon - it improves local environmental and human health. Our operations redress historically unjust waste management practices and advance environmental justice.

Vaulted is backed by leading carbon removal and climate investors, including Prelude Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, Earthshot Ventures, and WovenEarth Ventures.

About the Role

At Vaulted, we have an aggressive plan to rapidly scale our business operations and climate impact. As a Finance & Strategy Associate, you will support the Business Development team on a variety of opportunities to help Vaulted focus its efforts on the partnerships, projects, and spaces that will drive the greatest impact. Reporting to the Business Development Lead, your responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Growth Strategy: Work with the Business Development and Subsurface teams to build financial models to assess profitability and financing potential of new sites and geographies for Vaulted.
• Market Research: Develop comprehensive waste market research, assisting in our efforts to find key geographies in which to scale.
• Data Analytics: Analyze data sets to evaluate feedstock availability, estimate volumes, and develop a thesis around the total addressable market in targeted growth regions.
• Business Development Support: Identify, scope, and vet new waste streams; support the BD Director and BD Lead to build and grow key relationships with our waste suppliers.
• Due Diligence Support: Support the BD Lead in developing materials for partnership negotiations with potential and existing waste partners.

What You Will Bring

To succeed in this role, and to help the company to succeed in our mission, the Finance Associate must pair their technical skills with a deep sense of urgency and hustle. They must be able to manage multiple threads at the same time in a fast-paced startup, while delivering rapid results if for no other reason than the planet simply cannot wait. In addition, we seek a candidate with:

• 2+ years of work experience in investment banking, consulting or related field, preferably with a focus on energy, climate, or industrials
• Experience with financial modeling, profitability analysis, and translating complex data into a clear and compelling story
• Ability to learn new things exceptionally quickly and to develop insight and a perspective on a new topic in a short period of time
• Excitement to get one’s hands dirty in complex projects, whether in the details of a financial model for a particular project or pulling data together to understand a growth strategy
• Familiarity with geographical software (ArcGIS, Mapbox, QGIS, etc), or ability to learn it quickly
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in written and spoken English. Ability to communicate effectively with a range of stakeholders, including customers, business partners and team members. Capable of presenting complex technical information in a clear and concise manner
• Committed to sustainability with an understanding of the environmental, social, and economic benefits of carbon removal and/or climate change mitigation

This is a unique opportunity to work in a fast-paced and rewarding environment where your contributions will directly lead to mitigating, and eventually reversing, the worst impacts of climate change. We see this position evolving to include managing a part of the business development process and/or serving as a pre-MBA role.

The Fine Print

• This is a full-time role for Vaulted Deep, with offices in San Francisco and Houston. We will consider remote candidates.
• This position will require some work travel, especially for those who are expecting to be remote, to our offices as well as our well sites (currently in Hutchinson, KS and Los Angeles, CA). Additional travel is expected to industry conferences and waste partner offices.
• The role reports to the Business Development Lead
• Benefits package includes health insurance and 401(k), as well as access to life, disability, vision, and dental insurance coverage