Commercial Projects Associate
Location: In-person in San Francisco, CA or São Paulo, Brazil
The Role:
We are seeking a driven Commercial Projects Associate to support the execution and development of Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) projects. This role is critical in ensuring delivery of contracted projects, supporting project development, and maintaining strong customer relationships. Ideal for a structured, analytical thinker with a desire to work in climate tech and project execution.
Who You Are:
You’re analytical, scrappy, and comfortable owning fast-moving workstreams. You enjoy being close to the details but also see the big picture. You’re comfortable managing projects, writing, interpreting data, and making decisions that shape the company’s direction.
Role Responsibilities:
Fulfill commercial contract provisions (reporting, compliance, delivery, etc.)
Prepare customer-facing materials and run ongoing communications
Project manage new carbon offtake processes (e.g., RFP response)
Support diligence processes with buyers and investors
Prepare internal investment decisions and project budgets
Assist in project concept development and early scoping
Conduct techno-economic analysis of projects
Requirements:
1–3 years in management consulting, finance, startups, climate tech, or project development
Experience with analytical work and client-facing roles
Strong Excel/PowerPoint skills
Clear communicator, comfortable with ambiguity
Able to prioritize and own workstreams independently
Nice to haves:
CDR or carbon markets experience
Project management experience
Sales experience
Data analysis experience
Startup environment experience
Portuguese proficiency a plus
You Are:
Scrappy and action-oriented
Analytical and structured
Curious and organized
Strategic and outcome-oriented
About Terradot:
Our mission is to stabilize Earth’s climate by transforming nature’s most powerful permanent carbon removal process into a global climate solution. By advancing science, building technology, and assembling a global coalition, we are catalyzing a global initiative to scale Enhanced Rock Weathering within the next decade, starting in Brazil.
Founded out of the Stanford University ecosystem, Terradot is led by the world’s leading experts to advance the science and technology of ERW. Our unique structure bridges industry, academia, and government and allows our team to contribute with speed & scale. We have raised $58.2M in total funding from John Doerr, Sheryl Sandberg & Tom Bernthal, George Roberts, Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund, Google, Cisco and Venture Funds, Floodgate, Kleiner Perkins, Acre Venture Partners, Gigascale Capital, Valor Capital, Ponderosa Ventures and others. We have sold ~300,000 tons in offtakes from leading CDR buyers like Frontier and Google.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Research suggests that qualified people from historically marginalized groups may self-select out of opportunities if they don't meet 100% of the job requirements. We encourage individuals who believe they have the skills necessary to thrive to apply for this role.
Top Skills
What We Do
Over millions of years, silicate rock weathering has regulated Earth’s climate. By crushing silicate rocks and spreading them on agricultural soils - an approach called Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) - we can accelerate Earth’s natural process into a solution capable of addressing the urgency of climate change.
Existing agricultural and silicate rock sites - namely 5,000+ global silicate rock quarries surrounded by agricultural land - have the potential to remove billions of tonnes of CO2 with enhanced rock weathering. Despite this potential, ERW hasn’t scaled given the extraordinary scientific, technological, and operational challenges involved. Terradot, founded out of the Stanford ecosystem, is addressing these challenges by advancing the science, building the technology, and assembling the coalition needed to make this potential a reality.
We’ve started in Brazil – one of the world’s most optimal locations for ERW thanks to its tropical soils, strength in agriculture, and clean electricity grid. There, we are building the most ambitious ERW hub to date. This hub will drive the necessary breakthroughs in ERW science, ensuring every tonne of carbon dioxide removed is measured and tracked with certainty.
These insights will power digital tools for the optimization and verification of carbon removal projects, enabling the replicability of these hubs globally If successful, this approach will uniquely and rapidly catalyze global-scale carbon removal, enabling the transformation of [300] such quarries in Brazil and [5,000+] global quarries into carbon removal hubs.
Terradot has assembled a growing team of leading scientists and engineers with decades of published research (over 100,000 citations on ERW) and hands-on expertise in related fields, providing unmatched experience to drive advancements in ERW.
