Office Manager, Dioxycle
+ stock plans
Converting carbon emissions to useable materials
Job no longer available
Converting carbon emissions to useable materials
1-20 employees
Job no longer available
+ stock plans
1-20 employees
Company mission
To fight climate change with breakthrough science.
Role
Who you are
- Communication: Effective verbal and written communication to interact with employees, management, and stakeholders. Proficiency in communication using various communication supports and channels
- Positive: You bring sunshine and good mood wherever you are and you tend to look on the bright side!
- Empathy: Understanding and relating to employees' needs, concerns, and feelings
- Detail-oriented: You are extremely detail-oriented/thorough and don't drop the ball
- Resourceful: You treat Dioxycle's money as your own and find creative ways to get to great outcomes for Dioxycle
- Adaptability: Flexibility in responding to changing organizational dynamics especially in the context of fast-changing environment
- English is our daily work language. Speaking French is required for this role too
- Sense of design for the creation of appealing communication supports is a plus
- Strong numerical skills and aptitude for Excel is also a plus
- Extra bonus points if you have a background in chemistry!
- Commitment to the mission and ambition
- Innovative spirit
- Determination to deliver on the mission you own, whatever it takes
- Irreproachable work ethic
- Anticipation capabilities
- Radical open-mindedness: no ego. Ideas first
What the job involves
- Dioxycle is seeking a dedicated and passionate Office Manager to join our team and play a crucial role in supporting our mission of abating CO2 emissions by turning them into products we use everyday
- As our Office Manager at Dioxycle, you will play a key role in fostering a thriving and productive work environment by ensuring the smooth day-to-day operations of our workplace, as well as supporting the development and implementation of new initiatives and projects
- Your role will directly impact the successful industrialisation and commercialisation of our technology by ensuring that our team members are motivated, equipped for their missions and well-supported
- Manage daily office operations, including managing supplies, receiving deliveries, welcoming guests and ensuring general upkeep
- Liaise, negotiate and manage relationships with suppliers, vendors and contractors
- Contribution to general facilities management (large industrial site including an electrochemical lab, electronics & mechanical workshop, etc), eg. tracking building maintenance requirements
- Actively promote our safety culture and contribute to improving health & safety rules & other HSE projects
- Ensure all investors/partners/clients/candidates have great experiences onsite
- Coordinate all onboarding & offboarding processes
- Act as main point of contact for employees regarding office matters, benefits, and general inquiries
- Assist foreign Dioxyclers with settling in France (this sometimes involves helping them call French administration/banks/etc!)
- Organize team-building activities (once per month in Paris and in San Francisco), lunches/breakfasts and celebrations
- Develop and oversee celebration programs that celebrate achievements, work anniversaries, and significant contributions
- Act as a central communication hub (this could include doing a fun weekly newsletter!)
- Support Head of People on diverse missions & projects, which can include benchmarking, creating communication supports (eg. pitch decks for candidates, onboarding guides, etc)
- Support Head of People to find well-suited training programs, incredible coaches & speakers, organize lunch & learn and other workshop sessions
- Support Head of People to source talent pools and coordinate onsite interviews (if you have an appetence for recruitment, you could also own some junior-level recruitments of interns/apprentices etc)
Application process
- Initial 30-40 mins interview with Grace (Head of People)
- 60-min online workshop including a presentation of your career, skillset, followed by questions, case studies with our team
- A final on-site series of interviews and opportunity to meet the team & have a tour of the lab/facility
- A series of reference calls with provided contacts
Our take
Ethylene is an important product used in many manufacturing processes, from PVC pipes to clothing to cars. As the world's most highly produced organic compound, it contributes significantly to carbon emissions. Dioxcycle aims to address this problem with a catalytic process that converts carbon trapped during manufacturing into ethylene using water and electricity. Producers that use ethylene in their manufacturing process can use their own carbon emissions as a supply of the chemical, reducing both their carbon emissions and the emissions involved in producing ethylene through traditional methods.
While there is a bright future in technologies that allow manufacturers to produce materials from their carbon emissions, cost is likely to prove a major challenge for Dioxycle. Regardless of green credentials, producers will be looking for value for money in sourcing materials, and high energy costs are a major expense in Dioxycle's process. However, the company has produced several proofs of concept since the company's founding, each more efficient than the last, and recent funding will be used in the construction of an industrial prototype showcasing the company’s efficiency.
Going forward, the company hopes to be able to take advantage of environmental tax credits for sustainable technology, providing a green credit to companies using its processes that offsets the increased energy use. As climate change approaches a tipping point, Dioxycle is likely to play an important role in reducing industrial emissions in the manufacturing process, as well as providing a major source of a widely used manufacturing material.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2023
$17m
SERIES A
Total funding: $17m
Company benefits
- Unique journey: We are an early-stage company with a world-class team and a flat structure
- Impact: We are building a product that will have a real impact on the environment
- People-first: We are self-improving whilst helping others grow. We are no-ego doers and we are all responsible for shaping the company
- International team: We are an international team made up of over 10 nationalities, and hopefully many more soon!
- Fun: We constantly strive to cultivate a great work atmosphere and organize regular team events
- Generous Employee Stock Ownership plans
- Health Insurance: Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Retirement Plans: 401(k) (if US based), pension, or other retirement savings plans
- Ergonomic work stations & state-of-the-art equipment
Company values
- Work your a** off - We are working like there is no tomorrow. We’re in a race against climate change so we like to innovate, test, fail (sometimes spectacularly), and improve as fast as possible
- Wild experimentation - We love bold experiments; we believe putting wild ideas to the test is the key to the biggest breakthroughs
- Think big (literally) - Displacing fossil fuels requires us to build carbon dioxide electrolyzers at never-seen-before scales. Our approach is to only scale what is scalable and to leave other ideas behind
- Collaboration and support - We are a team. We support each other both when things go well and when things go wrong
Company HQ
Saint-Merri, Paris, France
Leadership
Sarah Lamaison
(CEO)After receiving a PhD in catlytic technologies for the electro-conversion of CO2 into useful chemicals and fuels, they were a Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University.
David Wakerley
(CTO)Holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge. Was previously a Lindemann Trust Fellow at Stanford University and a Postdoctoral Researcher at Collège de France and the University of Cambridge.
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