Find a job in climate tech

Ultra Simple Process

1. Find companies you think are interesting
1. Scroll through the websites below to create a list of 10-20
2. Email them asking for a job (find their emails on RocketReach.co)
1. Ideally tailor it to them.
2. Look up “cold email” and “following up to emails” advice
3. Feel free to ping me a draft on my email ( my_first_name@wreynolds.nz )
3. Google Energy & Climate industry events — in your local area, San Francisco, NYC, or Boston.
1. attend and meet relevant founders (who will find it much easier to find or talk to someone they met personally)
4. Repeat

Sources of exceptional climate opportunities

• Scroll through these newsletters for exceptional fundraising news or startups. Working for a company that recently raised $5-$15M is less risky than you’d think, and will teach you many extraordinary skills:
• Climate Tech VC
• Innovate Climate
• Subscribe to ClimateBase’s job board or the newsletters of Greentown Labs and Third Derivative (below)
• Scroll through positions in startups at these “Accelerators.” Both have ~30 companies they support.
• https://greentownlabs.com/careers/
• https://www.third-derivative.org/
• Or through these job Boards
• https://climatetechvc.substack.com/p/-launching-our-ctvc-job-board?s=r
• https://climatebase.org/
• https://innovateclimatecareers.substack.com/
• Listen to different career paths or exceptional entrepreneurs on these podcasts
• My Climate Journey
• Energy Terminal (Duke students x Energy experts)
• Will Reynolds’ personal favorites: Podcasts [list, favorites, best]

What work can you do for them?

So many different things! If you have an interest in their product and team, they could do with your talents in a variety of ways:

• If you’re technical, many startups need chemical or engineering talents. Hundreds of startups require people with software engineering, design, or biology/research-based backgrounds too.
• And, if you’re more of a peoples-person or less technical, most companies also need support in operations (a broad catch all term for solving problems), partnerships/customer relations, or marketing.