Head of Deployment, Heirloom
$200-300k
Offers equity
Office located in Brisbane, CA
Direct air carbon capture
Job no longer available
Direct air carbon capture
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$200-300k
Offers equity
Office located in Brisbane, CA
101-200 employees
Company mission
To pull billions of tons of CO₂ from the atmosphere.
Role
Who you are
- You will be able to demonstrate a successful history of completing large capital projects on-time, on-spec and on-budget, especially modular infrastructure and repeatable mega projects
- That experience has likely been gained in deploying billion-dollar+ modular projects in other industries (i.e. renewable energy, power generation, manufacturing, industrials, automation, data centers)
- Whatever industries you’re coming from, you have the intellectual horsepower, financial acumen, project management, and continuous improvement capabilities to be able to apply and modify your learnings and experience to fit Heirloom’s needs
- Over your career, you have gained the strong customer / commercial orientation needed to drive strategic partnerships and project development as well as experience driving down technology costs from a constructability standpoint or managing key CapEx/OpEx tradeoffs
- Start up experience working with first-of-its-kind technology and/or experience in an organization going through high growth / scaling where the leader would have been responsible for developing new capabilities or processes would be ideal
- You must have a willingness for substantial travel to join partners on-site and visit facilities during construction and operations and spend time at the Bribane office
What the job involves
- Reporting to the CEO, the Head of Deployment will be responsible for scaling Heirloom’s facilities at gigaton scale
- This person will build and lead an organization that designs, deploys, commissions and operates new Heirloom carbon removal sites across the US and internationally
- Capitalizing on Heirloom’s awarded DAC Hub applications from the DOE this past year, the Head of Deployment will orchestrate teams to complete numerous pre-FEEDs and FEED processes in parallel while charting out the deployment strategy beyond currently funded projects
- We see the Head of Deployment role as having 4 main components:
- Deployment: Here you will be responsible for selecting and managing EPCs/GCs or building in-house teams to prepare comprehensive site readiness for all equipment and balance of plant. Your org will also lead installation onsite, and manage and maintain all future sites
- Strategic design: You will bridge any gaps between technology development and construction to accelerate project timelines and efficiently scope builds. Design for Field Operations as a primary customer to manage the day to day of the carbon removal process
- Functional leadership: Build and scale high-performance teams, develop and continuously improve robust processes and systems that drive growth, profitability, and repeatability
- Leadership Team Member: You will serve as an agile and critical member of the Heirloom leadership team, bringing your subject matter expertise to the table as we build a truly once in a generation business
Our take
According to the UN, in order to avoid climate disaster the world needs to both reduce carbon emissions and actively remove CO₂ from the atmosphere. Heirloom develops a technology to handle the latter, using limestone to capture carbon directly from the air and permanently store it - and in doing so delivering high-quality carbon credits for businesses to purchase.
Initially, the company stored captured carbon in underground deposits, but it now also boasts the ability to sequester CO₂ into concrete. This process, which was developed alongside its partner, CarbonCure, actually strengthens the concrete, which can then be used in all types of construction projects.
Crucially, because limestone is so widely available - and because the capture process is a chemical reaction - the technology required relatively little land and energy. As a result, the company can operate with a comparatively low environmental footprint, increasing the value of the carbon removal credits it generates. That advantage helped secure a major agreement with Microsoft, which purchases 315,000metric tons of carbon removal from the company in one of the largest deals of its kind to date.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2024
$150m
SERIES B
Mar 2022
$53m
SERIES A
Total funding: $204m
Company HQ
Dogpatch, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Shashank Samala
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously founded Tempo Automation, a robotics and software company that raised millions in funding from venture capitalists.
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