Consumer Climate Engineer

Welow is a Greenly Spin-off founded in 2023 by Greenly, Julien, and Lucas. Welow’s mission is to help consumers track and reduce their carbon footprint, to take part in the fight against climate change.

Welow simplifies and automatizes carbon accounting for individuals by connecting their finances through its mobile application and integrations with leading banks. Welow also supports them in making eco-conscious purchases by providing product carbon insights through its mobile application and integration with retailers.

Welow, supported by Greenly, fintech of the year 2020 and French Tech Green20, helps more than 10 million people in Europe with reducing their carbon footprint, and making eco-conscious purchase decisions! 🚀

As a Climate Engineer, you will manage the delivery and support the development of our solutions built for consumers : a Mobile application and APIs. You will manage the delivery of our project with retails and banking customers and make sure that we follow a rigorous methodology to provide the most accurate and transparent carbon insights to our customers and users.

You will join a small team building out future solutions for consumers. Your inputs will be very valued and impactful for the future of our products.

Your main tasks and responsibilities:

Make our deployment projects a success

• Become an expert in product LCAs and carbon emission factors to make our integration with customers a success

• Manage rigourously projects and make sure we deliver them on time & on budget

• Engage directly with sustainability leaders help them transform successfully their organizations & products

Build a solid methodological framework

• Develop our database of emission factors that are used to link monetary (€) data and product data to emissions (kgCO2-equivalent)

• Build upon reference studies and guidelines to develop specific methodologies to assess the carbon footprint of consumer products and consumption behaviours

• Improve continuously the general methodologies applied for Life-Cycle Assessments

Handle knowledge-management aspects within the team

• Update Greenly’s knowledge base with the latest findings in terms of carbon accounting and climate science

• Disseminate knowledge among the Consumer products team

Explore new possibilities for a more precise carbon footprint assessment

• Stay up to date with new databases of emission factors that could be integrated into ours - both in France and internationally

• Take part in the evolution of the product and processes

We are a fast-growing company, therefore this list is not exhaustive. It’s also a unique opportunity to contribute towards the structuration of a new company and to increase your skills quickly accompanied by experienced people.

You are the candidate we are looking for if you tick these boxes:

• Master degree in engineering or technical studies

• Young graduate or 1-3 years of experience

• Strong interest in climate-energies issues, really motivated to hold an impactful job

• Motivated by learning and understanding carbon footprint’s mechanics

• Ability to work autonomously and lead people

• Ability to manage data related and cross-functional projects

• Analytic and problem-solving state-of-mind

• Fast learner to quickly build up expertise & skills

• Knowledge of the Bilan Carbon methodologies and/or Life-Cycle Assessment is a must

• Excel/Python/SQL or other database experience are appreciated

• Strong skills in English. Fluency in French

• You feel at home in a start-up and fast-paced environment

• Humble and curious

Where skills are equal, preference is given to disabled candidates and other grantees of the obligation to employ.

• First 30-min video call with the General Manager
• Carbon footprint related case study and restitution
• Second 30-min video with the head of Research and Methodology (in English).
• Final 30-min video call with the Consumer CTO