Senior Project Planner, KoBold Metals
$100-165k
AI-powered mineral exploration company
Open for applications
AI-powered mineral exploration company
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$100-165k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create value by discovering new ore deposits and expanding existing resources.
Role
Who you are
- B.A. or B.S. in a quantitative discipline
- At least 5 years experience of project engineering, strategic analysis, and/or planning experience in mineral exploration
- Proficient in traditional project management tools (e.g., spreadsheet, project planning software) plus a willingness and ability to work using cloud-based planning tools, learn new tools, and integrate with KoBold tools and databases
- Flexibility to accommodate calls with team members and vendors overseas
- Interest in contributing broadly to the success of the company and eager to pitch in where needed
- Experience in both project engineering and project planning in both mineral exploration and mine development projects
- Great intuition on project development and project costs
- Experience working with accounting software
- Highly self-motivated and autonomous, able to work with limited supervision
- Excited about working on a wide range of problems
- Well-organized and a proactive communicator
- Careful and consistent about getting the details right
- International experience
What the job involves
- You will be primarily responsible for directly building and managing KoBold’s exploration project schedules, budgets, and forecasts
- This position will report to the COO, will work with the various regional exploration Field Operations Managers, and will require coordination with the Finance Team and the Chief Strategy Officer
- This position will often require direct engagement with third-party partners and vendors to evaluate project planning options
- Work with COO, exploration project leads, and Field Operations teams to build and maintain robust, dynamic project schedules, budgets, and forecasts
- With the Finance team, continuously track expenditures against budgets and update project cost forecasts
- Evaluating existing exploration and mining technologies to help guide KoBold’s technology development priorities
- Help the leaders of each exploration team prepare their requests for authorization and budget to execute their intended exploration programs
- Conduct exploration project scenario assessments and help shape our operations strategy (e.g., in-house vs. general contractor, buy vs. rent, transportation options to remote camps) e.g., (a) evaluate cost and schedule implications for different fuel delivery options to remote camps across multiple field seasons; (b) assist generation of cost and schedule estimates for exploration program for use in opportunity acquisition analysis)
- Build and maintain central tracking of schedule and budget across KoBold’s global portfolio of exploration projects
- Financial scenario modeling to inform everything from corporate finance to resource planning and allocation
Our take
Supported by billionaires Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson, KoBold Metals utilises AI and Cloud computing techniques to assess the composition of the subsurface in order to explore metals that are used in making batteries installed in electric vehicles and clean energy technologies.
KoBold is a force in its field with significant financial backing, not just from the aforementioned tycoons, but thanks to Andreessen Horowitz, one of Silicon Valley’s leading venture capital funds. In 2019, this enabled KoBold to have funding available for four years, which, since then, has financed explorations at various locations, including Greenland.
As the climate crisis intensifies, the world has increasingly moved towards sustainability and hence demand for sustainable products like EVs has gone up, increasing the need for KoBold’s mineral exploration services. With recent approval for backing a new copper mine in Zambia, along with additional funding, the growing demand for sustainable resources positions KoBold for a promising future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2025
$163m
LATE VC
Jan 2025
$527m
SERIES C
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company HQ
Downtown Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Leadership
Kurt House
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously founded a carbon Sequestration and enhanced oil recovery venture as well as a natural gas asset acquisition platform. They also worked in Private Equity and Corporate Consulting at Bain & Company and spent time as an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University.
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