Executive Assistant, Supercritical
£50-70k
1-2 days a week in office
Carbon removal marketplace
Job no longer available
Carbon removal marketplace
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£50-70k
1-2 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To bring radical transparency to the carbon removal market
Role
Who you are
- You’re an experienced EA looking for a new challenge in an exciting and fast-moving environment
- You love the ever-changing dynamic of a growing agile startup and feel comfortable ramping up quickly
- You’re highly organised, have impeccable attention to detail, and know how to juggle multiple competing priorities
- You’re a proactive problem solver and have built systems to keep track of your exec’s myriad preferences for how things get done
- You have excellent written and verbal communication skills and can represent our execs to the highest degree when communicating with stakeholders
- You have the confidence to challenge and push back when the impossible is being asked and you have the curiosity to learn and understand the context of your exec’s day-to-day
- If you find yourself blocked, you find your way around instead of spinning your wheels
- You learn quickly and fix problems rather than repeating mistakes without identifying the root cause
- Most of all, you’re excited to work on the world’s most important problem with a friendly and motivated team
What the job involves
- As Executive Assistant at Supercritical, you will primarily support the CEO in various administrative and strategic tasks, including diary management, inbox handling, communication drafting, and strategic planning
- You will also support the CTO and COO as needed, assisting with coordinating meetings, managing communications, and facilitating project coordination
- Diary Management: Ensure alignment with CEO, CTO, and COO priorities, maintain accountability, and optimise calendar usage
- Written Communication: Draft emails on behalf of the CEO in communications with stakeholders. Take the lead in drafting updates and following up on commercial meetings
- Process Improvement: Identify and implement strategies to enhance the CEO's time management and task delegation
- Project Coordination: Organise follow-up actions from key meetings, facilitate complex deal management, and coordinate team events and travel arrangements
- Research tasks: Support with research ahead of external meetings and speaking engagements so the CEO is prepared and informed. You’ll need to take a proactive interest in our industry and network to understand the context of the relationships
- Task Organisation & Management: Establish clear task management processes for enhanced visibility and collaboration
- Inbox Management: Efficiently categorise and prioritise emails based on urgency
- Personal Administration: Manage personal travel and appointments as required
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Supercritical is offering businesses the option to reach carbon net zero output. It measures a company’s carbon footprint, creates an actionable plan for reducing emissions, and recommends a portfolio of high-quality carbon removal offsets to buy. It does this through unprecedented transparency of price, availability and quality, so its customers know exactly how its carbon output is being reduced, and what effect this reduction will have.
Businesses create a lot of pollution that either needs to be lowered or removed from the atmosphere to keep the earth’s warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius. With a greater carbon footprint than the entire aviation industry, Supercritical has made the tech industry an initial target.
When companies buy conventional offsets, the carbon emitted still remains in the atmosphere as someone else gets paid not to emit the same amount of carbon. Supercritical differentiates itself by focusing exclusively on carbon removal offsets that actively remove toxins from the atmosphere through methods such as tree planting, biochar, enhanced weathering, bio-oil sequestration, and direct air capture. It partners its customers with teams of climate scientists on carbon removal procurement, offering live pricing and granular vetting to simplify carbon reduction for the fluid and volatile tech industry.
Supercritical counts well-known businesses The Economist Group, Virgin Atlantic and Rothschild & Co as customers. And its using funding to grow its carbon removal to a mass scale, placing it in a good spot to do so with its unique strategy.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
40% female employees
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2023
$13m
SERIES A
Aug 2021
$2.7m
SEED
Total funding: $15.7m
Company benefits
- Unlimited Annual Leave – Take the time you need to recharge
- Extra Time Off – The first Friday of every month is a company-wide day off
- Pension Contribution – We’ll match your 5% contribution with 3%
- Flexible Hybrid Work – Work remotely first, with the option to use our London co-working space in Old Street, London
- Wellbeing & Home Setup Support – £1,000 annual wellbeing allowance + up to £500 for home office equipment
- Team Socials – Monthly company gatherings in London and annual company multi-day offsites
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
Leadership
Michelle You
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founder of Songkick and was CPO for 9 years. Product Consultant & Advisor for several startups and was a Venture Partner at LocalGlobe. Current Board Member of Subak and Member of Getting to Zero Steering Group.
Aaron Randall
(Co-Founder & CTO)Progressed from Software Developer to CTO of Songkick over the course of 7 years. Previously interim CTO and then Technical Advisor at Lingumi.
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