Jobs at South Pole

Supports climate and sustainability consulting projects through research, quantitative and qualitative analysis, data quality assurance, client deliverables, reporting, project coordination, budget and timesheet tracking, market research, benchmarking, and participation in client workshops and internal knowledge sharing.

Develop business across France by managing existing clients and qualified prospects, identifying climate-solution opportunities, creating tailored proposals, negotiating deals, and maintaining client satisfaction. The role represents South Pole at conferences and events, shares market insights, and supports commercial growth. Candidates should have sustainability or business education, 1–2 years of experience, strong English and French communication skills, sales or climate-sector experience, climate project knowledge, and Salesforce experience.

Supports quality control and risk evaluation for nature-based carbon projects. Responsibilities include developing QC frameworks, integrating risk methodologies into digital tools, reviewing carbon accounting, growth models, baseline logic, GIS data, and project documentation, and documenting findings and recommendations. Collaborates with the Risk team to improve processes and assess permanence, additionality, and project integrity.

Grow South Pole’s regional business by generating new opportunities, building client relationships, developing sustainability proposals, closing commercial agreements, and maintaining existing accounts. The role contributes to regional go-to-market strategy, collaborates with marketing and consulting teams, represents the company at client meetings and conferences, and provides commercial guidance to junior sales staff. Focus areas include climate action, carbon projects, and sustainability solutions.

Conduct first-level integrity risk assessments of carbon projects and KYC screenings of project partners. Prepare client-facing reports, manage stakeholder requests, maintain documentation, and collaborate with internal teams, rating agencies, and verification bodies. Support process and tool optimization through data analysis, standardization, and workflow improvements.

Leads KYC, AML, and anti-bribery reviews, remediation, transaction-monitoring initiatives, and financial-crime training. Owns risk governance policies, committee documentation, dashboards, and Board-level reporting. Supports enterprise risk assessments, control design and testing, emerging-risk analysis, risk registers, and cross-functional mitigation projects. The role reports to the Chief Risk Officer and independently represents the Risk function to senior stakeholders and committees.

Leads voluntary carbon market governance expertise, policy monitoring, market intelligence, analytics, and commercial strategy support. Advises on certificates origination, sales, proposals, deal structuring, and go-to-market activities. Develops technical trackers, thought leadership, advocacy messaging, and external communications while representing the company with governance bodies and industry associations. Requires substantial carbon-market experience, policy research capability, commercial acumen, strong stakeholder networks, and the ability to translate complex developments into clear business and communications insights.

Lead ProductOS end-to-end to digitize and automate carbon credit and EAC workflows. Define product vision, prioritize roadmap, manage backlog and agile delivery, own data governance and KPIs, build business cases, manage tech partners, and lead a global GIS/remote-sensing specialist team to drive adoption and measurable value.

Lead knowledge management and technical guidance on carbon standards and methodologies. Track regulatory developments (Article 6, ICVCM), synthesize updates for internal teams, support project technical checks, assess methodology impacts on project pipelines, and contribute to advocacy, training, and business development activities within the Compliance Markets team.

Lead global IT operations and enterprise applications for a 20+ country organization: manage M365/GWS/Entra ID, MDM, network/VPN, SaaS portfolio, ERP/CRM, ITSM, vendor/outsourcing relationships, multi-timezone support, and drive AI/ML automation in IT workflows while ensuring security and budget governance.

Lead policy and market analysis for compliance carbon markets, support government engagement (especially in Asia), drive business development and compliance deal structuring, produce analytical reports and dashboards, and coordinate commercial strategy, knowledge sharing, and communications across sales, sourcing, and portfolio teams.

Design, build, and ship production-grade LLM-powered features (RAG, extraction, summarisation, agentic tooling). Build data and inference pipelines, integrate with back-ends and vector stores, ensure evaluation, monitoring, cost and performance optimisations, and champion testing and reliability alongside product and tech leads.