Director of Sustainability

Unravel Carbon

Unravel Carbon

Singapore
Posted on Feb 5, 2025

ABOUT UNRAVEL CARBON

Unravel Carbon is an enterprise software for tracking and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, with a focus on helping companies decarbonise and develop strong climate change strategies. Our measurement platform specialises in Scope 3 emissions and with supply chains that extend into Asia-Pacific, with then supporting parts of the platform to provide data for climate related decision making and documenting climate risk disclosures. Our mission is to enable the participation of all companies, big and small, in the global fight against climate change. And we want to do it the 21st century way—automated, painless, and beautiful.

Unravel brings together climate expertise and software/data experts with a passion to solve the world’s most pressing issue—climate change. Collectively, our leadership team has launched and invested in multiple companies, and are now combining their experience and knowledge here at Unravel Carbon. We focus on ensuring our product and delivery are world-class from a climate change and sustainability point of view, with the supporting team of software, product and data ensuring we build high-quality technology tools to support. Our aim is to provide organisations with the tools and data they need to make excellent climate-related decisions.

We are backed by some of the world’s best funds and investors and were part of Y Combinator’s W22 batch.

Unravel was founded in 2021 with headquarters in Singapore and operations across Asia-Pacific

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Director of Sustainability at our early stage climate tech startup will be a key member of the management team, responsible for driving the company’s sustainability strategy and initiatives.

In this role, you will be responsible for identifying and prioritizing sustainability goals and metrics, and for developing and implementing plans to achieve these goals. You will work closely with various teams across the organization, including engineering, product development, marketing, and sales, to ensure that sustainability is integrated into all aspects of the business.

  • Develop and implement a comprehensive sustainability strategy that aligns with the company’s mission and values
  • Identify and prioritize key sustainability metrics, and develop plans to track and measure progress
  • Identify and progress commercial opportunities and sales with the support of the commercial team - leveraging deep networks in the sustainability area is a must
  • Have responsibility for overall customer delivery - ensuring customer commitments are on-time and on-budget and all aspects of customer delivery, including ad-hoc consulting work, is delivered to an exceptional quality standard by the sustainability team
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate sustainability into all aspects of the business, including product development, operations, and marketing
  • Manage relationships with external partners, including suppliers, customers, and industry organizations, to drive sustainability initiatives
  • Develop and deliver sustainability-related training and education to employees and stakeholders
  • Stay up to date on industry trends and developments related to sustainability, and identify opportunities for the company to stay at the forefront of these trends

ABOUT YOU

  • You have deep expertise of the GHG Protocol, ISO 14064 group of standards and relevant compliance reporting schemes
  • You will have demonstrated knowledge of climate risk analysis and key disclosure frameworks such as ISSB S1 and S2 reporting, TCFD, CSRD, etc.
  • Strong understanding of sustainability principles, including environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues
  • Excellent project management skills, with the ability to develop and implement complex initiatives across multiple teams
  • Very strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders
  • Proven ability to think strategically and to identify and prioritize business goals and objectives
  • Experience working in a fast-paced, start-up environment is a plus

YOUR WORK STYLE

  • An understanding of agile product development
  • Analytical and detail-oriented, and fully capable of navigating and combining various datasets to pull out key insights
  • Proven ability to work in a fast-paced environment, while being flexible to evolving responsibilities and last-minute changes
  • Self­-starter (proactive and independent) with an ability to prioritize different assignments and tasks to meet deadlines
  • Comfortable working in a collaborative environment
  • Ability to think outside of the box and creatively problem solve
  • Eager to think outside of the box and creatively problem-solve
  • Excellent English written and oral communication skills to translate the data into understandable (visual) insights

YOUR PREFERRED BACKGROUND

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a related field, such as environmental science, sustainability, or business management
  • You have 10+ years of work experience, ideally in Sustainability Consulting focusing on corporate carbon accounting

WHAT WE OFFER YOU

We offer an exciting challenge for a purpose-driven person who thoroughly enjoys learning and takes up responsibilities in a multi-cultural, A++ team and pioneering organization.

We nurture a culture that allows you to thrive, where your skills can be honed and your ideas will be heard, and where collaboration across teams and with global partners is the default.