Carbon Markets Manager

Cascade Climate; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Cascade Climate is seeking a Carbon Markets Manager to shape and execute our strategy to unlock high-integrity carbon markets as a tool for climate impact. The role spans Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) and Refrigerants, at the intersection of strategy, market analysis, partnerships, and implementation.

You will analyze where markets can drive real climate outcomes, identify gaps, and design interventions across technical, institutional, or policy domains.

Responsibilities

• Shape and execute strategy to unlock high-integrity carbon markets across ERW and refrigerants.
• Analyze market potential, gaps, and interventions across technical, policy, and institutional domains.

Job description

About Cascade

Join Cascade Climate, a global nonprofit propelling high-potential climate solutions from the margins to the mainstream.

The climate crisis has outpaced our response. In addition to cutting carbon emissions, we need dramatically expanded efforts on mitigating super pollutant emissions (including methane and refrigerants) to cool the planet in the near term, and scaling up carbon removal technologies to restore atmospheric balance for the long haul. Many promising solutions remain sidelined not because they lack potential, but because they haven't gotten the push needed to overcome adoption bottlenecks.

We founded Cascade to provide that push. Our team is currently focused on building the world’s capacity for durable carbon removal through enhanced rock weathering (ERW) and mitigating near-term warming through refrigerant management and transition. We do this by leading ambitious initiatives spanning markets, policy and science to overcome the biggest barriers to progress.

Cascade is philanthropically backed and since our launch in 2023 has earned the trust and support of leading philanthropic organizations, including Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Grantham Foundation, Quadrature Climate Foundation, and more. We are a distributed team of remarkably accomplished and insistently humble people — artists, community builders, entrepreneurs, scientists, and policy strategists — working to address one of the most pressing challenges of our time.

About the Role

Cascade is hiring a Carbon Markets Manager to help shape and execute our new strategy to unlock high-integrity carbon markets as a tool for climate impact. This role will work across carbon removal and super pollutant mitigation on both of our programs – Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) and Refrigerants – at the intersection of strategy, market analysis, partnerships, and implementation. You will help Cascade understand where markets can drive real climate outcomes, where they are falling short, and what interventions—technical, institutional, or policy—are needed to move them in the right direction. This will be a highly interdisciplinary role - working closely with colleagues across science, policy, and market development, while building relationships with external partners across the ecosystem.

The ideal candidate brings strong analytical horsepower, excellent strategic judgement, and a deep interest in carbon markets and climate finance, paired with a pragmatic, impact-oriented mindset. You should be excited to move between research, strategy, and real-world execution to help turn market insights into actionable buyer, supplier, registry, and standards engagement.