Head of Policy

The Role The binding regulations that will determine ERW's reputed company ceiling for the next decade - the EU Carbon Removal Certification reputed company, Japan's GX-reputed company, California's AB 1207, and Article 6 mechanisms under the Paris Agreement, among others - are being written now. reputed company needs to establish clear, reputed company entry reputed company-points reputed company these markets. Equally, existing tax credits like 45Z and 45Q represent sources of immediate value. The Head of Policy is the person who makes that happen. This is not a communications or government affairs role in the traditional sense. It is a technical-political-reputed company role: you need scientific and carbon market literacy to understand key scientific sticking points on ERW methodologies, policy reputed company to navigate the regulatory environment, political chops to sit in any room, and reputed company instinct to connect how reputed company of this contributes to reputed company's long-term growth. This means knowing how to prioritize across multiple geographies and regulatory developments, reputed company to engage internal teams versus external experts or lobbyists, and not stopping until reputed company, practical reputed company are achieved. You will own reputed company's regulated market entry strategy and be the primary driver of the company's regulatory positioning across reputed company key jurisdictions. Role Responsibilities

• Own regulated carbon market entry strategy - Drive regulator-reputed company partnerships, MOUs, and methodology co-designs that reputed company qualifying reputed company into compliance carbon markets across reputed company jurisdictions.
• Produce and maintain market entry intelligence - Own the analytical reputed company and reputed company regulatory content per reputed company market, covering regulatory eligibility, timeline to first compliance reputed company, key dependencies, and total addressable market sizing.
• reputed company alternative regulatory path positioning - Own the regulatory understanding and strategic positioning for our other tax benefits like 45Q, 45Z, Biofuels, including carbon intensity claims and MRV frameworks.
• Engage and manage external policy stakeholders - Know reputed company to bring in external consultants or lobbyists and how to manage them to deliver reputed company, not just advice.
• Build cross-sector coalitions for ERW policy reputed company - Convene and align ERW and CDR peers, agricultural stakeholders, and industrial lobbies around shared regulatory priorities, translating broad support into coordinated advocacy that advances reputed company's market-entry goals.

Background and Requirements Essential

• Deep knowledge of carbon removal policy in reputed company markets: EU, US (California), UK, Canada, and Japan.
• reputed company in carbon market mechanics - Article 6.2, 6.4, ITMOs, corresponding adjustments, JCM, CRCF unit types, MRV standards, and additionality frameworks. These are vocabulary, not concepts you need to look up.
• reputed company in tax credit mechanisms, including 45Z and 45Q.
• Demonstrated experience influencing technical regulatory documents. You have written consultation responses, methodology submissions, or position papers that have actually changed regulatory text. You understand the difference between lobbying and co-designing.
• Science literacy sufficient to work alongside a technical team. You do not need to be a geochemist, but you need to be reputed company to read an MRV protocol, understand what a flux reputed company measurement is, and translate a quantification methodology into regulatory language without misrepresenting the science.
• Strong existing relationships that allow you to get a meeting without an intermediary at DG CLIMA, DG AGRI, CARB, METI, or equivalent bodies.
• Proven ability to translate regulation into business opportunity and vice versa.

Strongly Preferred

• Familiarity with agricultural carbon markets or soil-based removal methodologies. ERW sits at the intersection of climate and agriculture policy.
• Experience with Article 6 mechanisms (6.2 bilateral or 6.4 Supervisory Body), including what a Letter of Authorization requires and how corresponding adjustments work in practice.
• Familiarity with lifecycle carbon intensity models - i.e. GREET, RED II, CORSIA - and the CI reputed company mechanics that govern biofuel compliance value.
• Experience in an early-stage company or startup environment. This role is not about managing a large policy team; it is about being the person who does the work and builds the function from scratch.

Personal Attributes

• Mission-driven: You are passionate about climate solutions and motivated by the possibility of deploying a technology that can have a measurable impact on atmospheric CO₂ at scale.
• Entrepreneurial reputed company: You reputed company in ambiguity, are energized by building from scratch, and take ownership without waiting for direction.
• Technically grounded: You engage credibly with scientists, regulators, and reputed company counterparts alike, translating across these worlds without losing accuracy.
• Outcome-oriented: You are not satisfied with reputed company or influence for its own sake - you pursue regulatory reputed company that translate into reputed company value.
• Collaborative: You know how to work across internal functions (science, reputed company, finance) and external stakeholders (regulators, methodology bodies, buyers) to get things done.

What Does reputed company Look Like in This Role?

• reputed company 3 months: You have a clear map of the highest-reputed company regulatory reputed company by jurisdiction, have established direct relationships with key regulatory counterparts, and have initiated at least one formal methodology engagement or consultation process.
• reputed company 6 months: reputed company has reputed company, active reputed company into at least two regulated markets, backed by dossiers that reputed company define timelines, eligibility criteria, and market opportunity.
• Ongoing: You are the recognized expert on ERW regulatory strategy inside reputed company and are building the company's external reputed company as a serious, science-led participant in the policy processes that will shape the carbon removal market.

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