Head of Product

**SALT's Vision**:
Our vision is to enable a thriving, equitable planet as the world’s most trusted and loved platform for climate finance. We envision a world where every individual and community can actively participate and benefit from building projects contributing to a low-carbon economy. Whether safeguarding our rainforests or biodiversity or operating distributed machines to extract carbon from the atmosphere, our goal is to ensure that the funding for such initiatives is easily attainable for all.

We face a defining moment in our collective fight against climate change - In the space of a few years, we must undo the damage caused by the centuries-long reign of fossil fuels. This fight demands an infrastructure revolution of a scale never seen before in history
- in the form of solutions that remove carbon dioxide from our atmosphere, a.k.a carbon removal projects.

Today, these carbon removal projects face massive barriers to accessing needed financing
- the process can take years, the financing terms can be extractive, and sadly, a big chunk of the financing is gobbled up by intermediaries instead of going to the projects or the local communities.

SALT exists to remove the barriers for high-quality carbon removal projects to receive the early and scaling financing they need to remove carbon emissions and help communities and biodiversity thrive. We are on a mission to unlock capital for these high-quality climate projects with speed, scale, and with equity_._

**What we are building.**:
We are building a platform for corporates and financial institutions to directly finance high-quality, vetted carbon removal projects, helping these companies reach net zero goals, plugging the financing gap for projects and ultimately, rapidly scaling the deployment and supply of needle-moving climate solutions.

We need to scale carbon removal to a $1 Trillion/year market a year, up from a few hundred million $/year today. This scale demands an insanely ambitious journey against the context of an insanely urgent need to address climate change meaningfully.

This journey will not be easy -But with the trust of our project development partners, our corporate customers, our incredible investors and above all, our world-class team, I believe that we are in a great position to succeed.

**About this role.**:
As our very first product hire, as our Head of product, you will have the agency and a front-row seat to shape and scale our product as the critical data and financing layer for accelerating climate financing.

You will experience the profound and far-reaching impact of your work every single day, from enabling pioneering FTSE 500 companies to reach net zero to unlocking timely and fair financing for our project development partners and their communities. Your work will matter, be it amongst the communities fighting to protect our forests and biodiversity or in corporate boardrooms where our work will inform massive climate commitments.

If our mission and ambition speaks to you and you see yourself in this role, we’d love for you to apply. At SALT, what matters to us are your skills, motivation, and experience to excel in the role
- regardless of your ethnicity, belief or religion, family structure, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other aspect that makes up your unique identity.

We know that diversity is multifaceted and intersectional, and we want to build a company where different identities and perspectives can come together to deliver on our mission and vision. We are a venture-backed company founded and led by a woman of colour. 100% of our team today has their roots in the global south, and over half of our pre-seed investors identify as women. We speak English, Hindi, Spanish, French and Afrikaans across our team.

**What will you own**:
You would be instrumental in delivering a trusted, useful, and impactful product for our corporate and project development partners and customers.

You will work closely with Shilps, SALT’s founder and CEO, to shape our product org and our product strategy and deliver on our product roadmap.

As the first product hire, you will set the tone for product culture and leadership across the product org and the wider SALT team.

**What is it like to be part of this team?**:
We are a small and agile team of four today, encompassing deep experience and expertise across capital markets, carbon markets, climate finance and fintech. We keep each other accountable. We share our optimism for finding solutions to climate change. We are gritty and actively practice empathy. We are serious about our work but don't take ourselves too seriously

**What is the interview process?**:

- First call with the Hiring Manager, SALT’s CEO Shilpika Gautam
- Product Task
- Product Task review with one of SALT’s Product Advisors
- Meet the SALT team (values alignment)
- Final Interview with Shilpika|
- Meeting with a SALT board member/investor

**Requirements**:
**About you**: