Commercial Analytics Lead, KoBold Metals
$100-150k
More information about location
AI-powered mineral exploration company
Open for applications
AI-powered mineral exploration company
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$100-150k
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create value by discovering new ore deposits and expanding existing resources.
Role
Who you are
- PhD in the physical sciences, engineering, mathematics, or economics
- Ms in physical sciences with 2+ years work experience at a startup, investment firm, or top professional services firm
- Must have experience with Python, Matlab, NumPy, SiPy or other scientific computing language
- Must have experience within the data science discipline
- Must have experience with financial modeling
- Experience with and/or strong intuition for global market dynamics
- Regardless of formal training, a strong orientation toward thinking from first principles with respect to science, technology, economics, and business
What the job involves
- The CAL will report directly to the CEO and will work with the CEO and CFO on the most important analytic work informing corporate strategy
- Economic assessments of global battery metal market dynamics to help guide KoBold’s commodity focus
- Detailed analysis of investment opportunities
- Financial scenario modeling to inform everything from corporate finance to resource planning and allocation
- Evaluating existing exploration and mining technologies to help guide KoBold’s technology development priorities
- Working with KoBold scientists to prioritize technology development
- Working with KoBold partners to optimize technology deployment and commercial arrangements
- Battery material commercial analytics
- Leveraging data science methodologies to drive KoBold’s commercial analytics
- Supporting the commercial analytics of KoBolds CEO and CFO/CTO
- Aggregating existing, as well as conducting original, market analyses on battery materials and battery supply chains
- Helping to develop detailed economic assessments on specific projects
- Contributing to the corporate financial model to inform equity and debt financing, resource planning, and project development
- Working directly with the CEO to prepare materials for the Board of Directors as well for other outside investors or partners
- Helping the CEO prioritize project expenditures across KoBold’s asset portfolio
- Helping the CEO prioritize technology development objectives by working with senior data scientists, software engineers, and geoscientists
- Leveraging large economic data sets to produce high quality analytic reports
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
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
50% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2024
$491.5m
LATE VC
Jun 2023
$195m
SERIES B
Total funding: $899m
Company HQ
Downtown Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
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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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