Location: Calgary, AB
Reports to: Interim CFO
About Carbon Upcycling Technologies
Carbon Upcycling is redefining cement production by addressing three of the industry’s most pressing challenges:
- Capacity constraints – boosting cement plant capacity by up to 60%.
- Localized feedstocks – enabling producers to use locally available waste materials, reducing imports and strengthening supply chains.
- Cost parity – delivering supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) that are cost-competitive with traditional cement while lowering the overall carbon footprint of cement.
With headquarters in Calgary and a pipeline of projects across North America and Europe, Carbon Upcycling is entering a scale-up phase, preparing for its Series B financing round while expanding industrial partnerships and deploying large-scale projects.
We are seeking a Director of Strategy & Corporate Development to be a key driver of this growth—combining strategic leadership with financial execution to position Carbon Upcycling as a global leader in advanced building materials. This role will provide the operational and financial backbone required to scale capital-intensive projects, secure major financing, and translate corporate strategy into disciplined execution.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Growth & Corporate Development
- Support the CEO and CFO, providing back-office support for strategic fundraising to operationalize Carbon Upcycling’s growth strategy through and beyond the Series B round.
- Lead industry and competitive analyses within the cement and building materials sector to identify expansion opportunities and strategic positioning.
- Support and execute strategic partnerships with cement producers, construction firms, and waste feedstock providers.
- Develop financial approach for market entry and project scaling of Carbon Upcycling’s technology.
Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
- Maintain and refine Carbon Upcycling’s corporate financial model, reflecting capital-intensive project economics in the cement and building materials sector.
- Participate in budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis across business units and projects.
- Deliver financial insights that inform commercial negotiations, pricing strategies, and investment decisions with cement and construction partners.
- Support Business Development with robust commercial deal modeling, enabling competitive project proposals and long-term value creation.
Fundraising & Capital Strategy
- Provide support in executing Carbon Upcycling’s Series B financing round, ensuring financial diligence, investor readiness, and data room management.
- Act as execution partner to the CFO on equity raises, project financing, and structured capital solutions for large industrial deployments.
- Prepare investor-facing materials that communicate Carbon Upcycling’s value proposition in building materials and cement clearly and compellingly.
- Support long-term capital strategy, ensuring Carbon Upcycling has the financial capacity to scale cement-focused projects globally.
Leadership & Organizational Development
- Develop & mentor a high-performing team with focus on strengthening the company's analytical and financial acumen.
- Foster a culture of accountability, financial rigor, and strategic execution across the company.
- Serve as a bridge between finance, engineering, operations, and commercial teams to ensure alignment around Carbon Upcycling’s industry-focused strategy.
- Enabling execution excellence through the company goal setting process.
- Support the development of board materials and making presentations to board and investors
Profile of the Ideal Candidate
- MBA, or equivalent advanced designation.
- 10+ years of progressive experience, ideally in a growth stage, capital intensive company
- Experience in heavy industry, building materials, or cement strongly preferred,
- Proven success in supporting fundraising rounds (Series B or later), including due diligence and investor processes.
- Strong background in financial modeling, FP&A, and structuring large-scale project financing.
- Demonstrated ability to execute strategic partnerships and joint ventures in complex industrial markets.
- Comfortable operating in fast-paced, high-growth environments with a strong bias for building systems from the ground up.
- Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to influence executives, investors, and industry partners.
Why Join Us?
This is a rare opportunity to shape the trajectory of a venture-backed scale-up transforming the cement and building materials sector. As Director, Strategy & Corporate Development, you will be instrumental in securing our Series B financing, structuring project-level capital frameworks, and driving strategic initiatives that expand our customers capacity, strengthen local supply chains, and deliver cost-competitive building materials worldwide
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What We Do
Carbon Upcycling is a waste and carbon utilization company unlocking a new frontier of circular materials. We’re tackling the biggest problems on the planet—like climate change and industrial waste. Applying our novel technology platform, we enable hard-to-decarbonize industry to transform local industrial byproducts and natural materials into superior additives. Our first massive market is concrete, the source of eight percent of global CO2 emissions and growing. Our novel technology reduces the carbon footprint of cement, sequesters carbon, and improves concrete performance. We do this by opening up a new class of locally available, carbon-sequestering cement replacements. With Carbon Upcycling, cement producers can now create a superior product using local industrial byproducts and natural materials and save the planet at the same time.
