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Senior Principal, Entrepreneur-in-Residence

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🔥 8 minutes ago

🌏 Anywhere in the World

đź’µ $150k - $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

đźź  Senior

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RMI

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1982

đź’Ľ Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

⚡ Energy

đź’° Grant on 2022-03

Consulting • Healthcare • Energy

RMI is a company dedicated to transforming the global energy system to ensure a clean, prosperous, zero-carbon future. It identifies interventions and scales transformative changes in the energy system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% by 2030. RMI's work includes various initiatives like carbon-free buildings, electricity, and transportation, as well as international programs targeting climate finance and intelligence, urban transformation, and technology innovation. The company focuses on impactful solutions for energy security and sustainability globally.

đź“‹ Description

• Create and lead a new market-shaping platform • Create a framework for rapid PDRC technology scale-up and define appropriate market mechanisms • Identify investors, philanthropies, incumbent paint producers, commercial customers, government agencies, and grassroots deployment partners • Forge a coalition of key stakeholders and solicit commitments to stimulate PDRC production at scale and low cost • Create a deployment approach in which commercial deployments cross-subsidize deployment in vulnerable communities • Build and lead a world-class team • Fundraise successfully to support the program • Coordinate demand aggregation, supply-chain and manufacturing scale-up, blended finance, and standards and certification development • Potentially spin out the platform into a new nonprofit organization

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ year's experience building and scaling new ventures, market-shaping initiatives, or field-building organizations in climate, public health, or global development, with demonstrated outcomes at scale • Proven fundraising ability, with a record of securing multi-million-dollar commitments from philanthropies, governments, development finance institutions, or corporate partners • Experience designing and closing large-scale market mechanisms, such as advanced market commitments, pooled or aggregated procurement, volume guarantees, or technology transfer and IP agreements • Direct accountability for market mechanism structure, negotiation, and execution • Demonstrated ability to build and lead a team from zero, including recruiting talent, setting strategy, and standing up governance • Fluency across blended finance and supply-side development, including layering concessional and commercial capital and de-risking manufacturing scale-up • Senior external credibility, including a network and reputation with C-suite executives, ministers, and funders • Ability to represent the initiative publicly • Technical literacy in materials science, paints and coatings, or manufacturing scale-up (preferred) • Background in cooling, building materials, or the built environment (preferred) • Experience in India or other high-heat Global South markets (preferred) • Comfort leading in ambiguity and defining the strategy and operating model for a category that does not yet exist (preferred)

🏖️ Benefits

• Performance-based bonus • Initial 12-month term could be converted to a permanent staff role if additional funding is secured • RMI would provide initial staff support as the entrepreneur-in-residence secures funding, recruits, and builds their team

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