General Manager - Canada

About UNDO

UNDO is tackling the greatest challenge of our time: climate change. We are a fast-growing for-profit business that has already raised $22.87M USD to date. UNDO is one of the biggest carbon removal companies in the world and we’re just getting started. 

UNDO has recently been named one of four global winners of the $100M XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition, taking home $5M USD. Gaining global recognition and furthering the credibility of enhanced rock weathering (ERW) as a carbon removal pathway, UNDO is positioned as a scientific world leader in this field. 

We’re now leveraging our expertise and underlying technology to deliver a platform that will enable a global network of project developers to scale ERW to the gigaton level - essential in the fight against climate change. 

About the role

UNDO has reached a nexus point in our scale-up efforts which now requires a strong Canadian lead. This role will lead the scale up of UNDO’s Canadian carbon dioxide removal business. As Canada’s General Manager, you will be responsible for the strategic direction and performance of UNDO Canada. This critical role will report directly to the CEO. 

This is a widely varied role with real ownership and a chance to help shape UNDO’s Canadian trajectory. This is a permanent position and is a career-defining opportunity to shape an agile organization at a critical growth stage. This role has strong potential to evolve into a permanent leadership position.

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Strategic Leadership: Identify and address strategic blockers, actively pursue growth opportunities, and tackle the challenges of scaling enhanced rock weathering. 
• Organizational Operations: Provide direct on-site operational management to our measurement and operations teams in Kingston, Ontario. 
• Engagement: Engage with and educate Federal and Provincial policy-makers.
• Initiative Oversight: Design and implement strategic growth strategies.

As a part of the UNDO team, you will continue to push boundaries as we commercialise enhanced rock weathering as a crucial carbon removal technology.

As part of the UNDO Team, you will catalyze our Canadian business operations and forge a path towards wider market adoption of enhanced rock weathering technology as a crucial carbon removal model.

Where you’ll spend your time

Canadian growth / scaling 

• Strategically scaling up our farmer engagement program, identifying and implementing strategies to drive agricultural uptake of wollastonite as a soil amendment, building the land bank utilising enhanced rock weathering, and building a network of trust and advocacy within the Canadian Farming Community. 
• Designing and implementing other key growth strategies, including:
• Assessing new regional expansion opportunities 
• Partnering with provincial and federal government to integrate ERW into their decarbonisation initiatives
• Identifying new revenue opportunities 
• Identifying, pursuing, and maintaining key stakeholder relationships to amplify UNDO’s impact initiatives
• In collaboration with our finance and commercial teams, unlocking project finance to enable UNDO Canada to scale rapidly
• Working with customers to secure future carbon sales
• Maintaining key strategic relationships within our Canadian supply chain
• Building critical relationships at the federal and provincial level to best represent UNDO and ERW
• Advocating and educating at critical events, key stakeholder meetings, media opportunities, etc. 

Operational management

• Leading and developing the teams which deliver regional operations, measurement and lab analysis. Identifying gaps, blockers, and proposing a plan to strategically tackle and action forward
• Informing teams of the user requirements to help determine and grow future tech development 
• Ensuring we operate in compliance with local and federal regulations
• Report regularly to the executive team on regional performance, opportunities, and risks.

We’d love to see from you:

• A proven track record of leadership during the scale-up phase, ideally in an adjacent field such as decarbonisation, agritech, or - possibly - commodities or extraction
• A record of problem solving 
• Experience managing strategic relationships with customers, partners and suppliers
• Systems thinking - an ability to connect a long term vision with the near-term moving pieces of an operation by identifying blockers and opportunities to accelerate growth 
• An understanding of Canadian agricultural supply chains and operations
• A passion for climate tech, sustainability, and science-driven innovation

Working environment

• We are building a team in Kingston, Ontario where we have incredible lab facilities and a developing regional network. Whilst you don’t need to be here full time, we would want someone to be present in Kingston at least once a week. 
• This role will require weekly travel across Ontario, as well as regular national and international travel to various events and stakeholder meetings. We estimate a couple of international trips per year, and travel across Canada every 1-2 months, but this will be dependent on business activity and priorities, so we do need someone flexible. 

What you'll get when you join us:

• The opportunity to pioneer carbon removal at a globally critical moment to positively impact the planet for the better
• A truly committed and collaborative team of passionate field and lab techs, and operational specialists 
• Opportunity to participate in our employee share option plan
• 25 days annual leave (plus Provincial and Federal Holidays), plus paid sick leave (starting at 20 days per year), paid volunteer leave (3 days per year), paid compassionate leave (10 days per year) 
• Enhanced family policies, including additional paid time off for childcare (1 week per year), enhanced maternity leave (12 weeks’ full pay) and enhanced paternity leave (3 weeks’ full pay) 
• Annual professional development budget of $280 CAD
• Employee Assistance Programme - a confidential phoneline service for you and your family. Financial, wellbeing and emotional support available

As a scaling business with recently established (but fast growing!) operations in Canada, we don’t currently have healthcare cover as part of our existing package. However, we understand this is unusual and commit to ensuring our base salaries take this into consideration. This is something we intend to add to our benefits within the next 12 months. 

Ontario has a significant land mass governed by treaty-based agreements with First Nations people. As part of our long-term operations in Canada, UNDO is committed to developing relationships, having open consultation and providing equitable access to opportunities that result from our work. We are very mindful of the physically and spiritually dependent tie that First Nations people have to the land and respect their stewardship.

We're an equal opportunity employer. We are looking for the best candidate based on the value they can add. Our culture is hugely important to us and we welcome applicants of all race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. We encourage all candidates who believe they have the required skills and experience for any of our roles to apply. We also welcome applications from candidates who have a keen interest and passion for fighting climate change.