Director, Carbon Science

Rubicon Carbon is a next-generation carbon solutions provider. Led by a world-class management team, Rubicon is an innovative platform that channels capital to unlock at-scale carbon project development, and delivers trusted, enterprise-grade solutions for carbon credit demand. Rubicon strives to deliver greater scale, confidence, and innovation across all facets of the carbon market and to meet the growing demand for end-to-end, high-integrity emissions reduction solutions. 

• →Provide technical leadership across carbon projects spanning avoidance, reduction, and removal pathways, including both nature-based and technology-based solutions.
• →Assess project design, baseline setting, additionality, leakage, permanence, monitoring plans, quantification approaches, uncertainty treatment, and delivery risk.
• →Advise on methodology selection, applicability, interpretation, implementation, and where relevant, opportunities for methodology refinement or development.
• →Lead or support technical due diligence for investments, project partnerships, and offtake opportunities, including review of PDDs, monitoring reports, validation and verification findings, and key technical assumptions.
• →Support Asset Management of portfolio projects by identifying technical underperformance drivers, implementation bottlenecks, issuance risks, and mitigation measures.
• →Work closely with project developers and implementation partners to strengthen project quality, monitoring systems, and issuance readiness
• →Maintain strong working knowledge of major carbon standards, registries, and relevant program rules, including Verra, Gold Standard, ACR, CAR, ART, Puro, and other relevant mechanisms
• →Monitor and interpret evolving carbon market integrity frameworks, including ICVCM CCP, ratings agency frameworks and criteria, and broader market expectations on project quality
• →Work with the Rubicon Science team SMEs on the use of dMRV, remote sensing, GIS, sensor-based data systems, and other technology-enabled monitoring approaches to improve transparency, efficiency, and quality control
• →Assess field implementation realities and technical execution risks, including data quality, operational capability, land tenure, local stakeholder engagement, FPIC, and audit readiness
• →Support evaluation of project suitability for different market pathways and buyer use cases, including voluntary market applications and relevant Article 6 or jurisdictional considerations where applicable
• →Partner closely with Science, Investments, Sales, Trading, and Asset Management teams to translate technical complexity into actionable investment, portfolio, and commercial decisions
• →Contribute technical input to customer and commercial discussions, including quality positioning, methodology choices, delivery expectations, and risk implications
• →Build and maintain strong relationships across the carbon ecosystem, including developers, standards bodies, registries, validation and verification bodies, ratings agencies, and technical advisors

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, with relevant PhD or master’s degree preferred, such as environmental science, forestry, ecology, engineering, climate science, geospatial science, soil science, chemistry, or related fields, or equivalent experience.
• At least 7 years of relevant experience with at least 3 years in carbon markets, climate project development, carbon science, MRV, methodology development, technical due diligence, or related fields
• Deep understanding of major carbon credit pathways across both nature and technology, and how methodologies are designed, applied, and implemented in practice
• Hands-on experience in carbon project design, development, implementation, monitoring, validation, and verification
• Strong familiarity with key standards, registries, and market mechanisms, including Verra, Gold Standard, ACR, CAR, ART, Puro, and related frameworks
• Strong command of high-integrity carbon market principles, including additionality, baseline setting, quantification, permanence, leakage, uncertainty, and double counting
• Familiarity with ratings agency frameworks, quality assessment approaches, and how external quality signals affect project risk, portfolio value, and customer suitability
• Practical understanding of dMRV developments, geospatial tools, remote sensing, field data systems, and technology-enabled monitoring approaches
• Experience identifying and managing technical, implementation, and issuance risks across different project types and geographies
• Strong understanding of stakeholder engagement, safeguards, local community considerations, and FPIC in project development and implementation
• Strong commercial awareness and ability to connect technical rigor with investment, portfolio management, contracting, and customer needs
• Established network across the carbon market ecosystem in Asia and ideally globally
• Ability to operate credibly across technical, commercial, and executive audiences
• Multilingual skills - specifically in Bahasa, Mandarin, or Hindi - are a significant plus.

• Strong judgment, intellectual rigor, and a pragmatic approach to technical problem-solving
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving, entrepreneurial environment
• Comfortable working across multiple pathways, geographies, and project stages
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to distill complex technical issues into clear recommendations for non-technical stakeholders