What we do at Eion

Eion (pronounced ion) is pioneering scalable carbon removal through enhanced rock weathering (ERW) — a process that speeds up Earth's weathering cycle by applying silicate minerals to agricultural soils. ERW is one of the fastest-growing pathways for durable carbon removal, at the intersection of nature-based and engineered solutions. Through fundamental scientific research and technological innovation, we're developing and deploying solutions that provide both environmental and economic benefits for farming communities while permanently removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Eion has recently closed a pilot contract with Microsoft for CDR delivery with a heavy research component, and also received awards from the Department of Energy for the Carbon Negative Shot program which will be critical to advancing our company and industry.

About this Role

Our carbon operations team owns the critical path from field application to verified carbon removals. You will oversee our commercial deployments from the point of feedstock application through in-field sampling cycles and ultimately the transformation of our sample analysis data into issued carbon credits. This role encompasses two key functions:

• Field Operations – designing and enforcing standard operating procedures for application, sampling, and measurement; oversight of field data collection and ag lab analyses; collaboration with growers, CROs, ag and commercial partners on field and sampling operations.
• Data Operations – transforming field data into verified carbon assets through data pipeline management and weathering quantification models, while maintaining critical relationships with carbon registries and verification bodies to enable scaling of carbon credit generation.

This role is responsible for building and scaling the systems that generate in-field data to transform it into valuable carbon removal assets. This position is remote with occasional travel (to field deployment sites and team offsites), and requires work on a US timezone, from PT to ET.

Responsibilities

• Direct Eion’s end-to-end carbon operations, including field deployment operations, field sampling protocols, lab analysis data collection, CDR quantification and data management, carbon registry submission and verification, through to end customer delivery of carbon credits.
• Manage a team of subject matter experts through a coordinated, clear measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) process:
• Our agronomic program manager, who works closely with field operations, soil samplers, and ag labs
• Our data engineer, who builds data ingestion systems, tooling, and pipelines
• Our data scientist, who leads weathering quantification and modeling
• Our carbon verification lead, who manages project submissions for credit issuance
• Be part of the team who collaborates with key strategic relationships with ag retailers and distributors to deploy our projects
• Participate in the improvement of company’s data management system by specifying build requirements, refining business logic, and participating in the review process
• Implement project management processes to deliver projects on time and on budget, with clear communication of status throughout the project life cycle. Coordinate cross-functional planning of field deployments and MRV operations for new contracts in alignment with commercial, mineral operations, and science teams
• Define milestones and metrics to identify key decision points or deviations from the plan, and drive scenarios with the team to reach solutions
• Report on project progress and results with Eion’s leadership and Board of Directors, including establishing key metrics and milestones to monitor performance – incl. proactively identify issues and recommend solutions to Eion team & management
• Build, nurture, and leverage strategic external partnerships to support the project life cycle, including sampling and lab analysis partners, and carbon registries
• Develop and refine Eion’s project protocols and implementation to improve the efficiency, cost, and timeliness of our carbon operations at scale, in alignment with registry requirements. Work with the team to respond to and influence the development of carbon registry methodologies and drive an MRV roadmap, shared with our science team, to improve cost, accuracy, operational/ag feasibility of Eion’s project development, and implement operational changes that can improve signal-to-noise ratio in our data
• Lead Eion’s alignment with and implementation of ERW methodology updates, by collaborating across internal and external subject matter experts

Required Skills & Experience

• 10+ years experience in operations, with focus on environmental, agricultural, or carbon markets
• Proven track record managing cross-functional data & field operations
• Technical experience working with soil analysis and spatial field data, as well as farm and field data management software
• Excellent project management and stakeholder communication skills
• Ability to translate between scientific, commercial, and operational parties, and negotiate cross-functional tradeoffs
• Experience and ability to thrive in fast-paced startup environments where you need to build while flying – comfortable working cross-functionally on a small team, wearing multiple hats, and filling gaps where needed
• Experience in maturing operational environments. Able to bridge the gap between an early stage startup frenzy and a well-oiled machine and lead a team through scalability challenges
• Commitment to continual learning and improvement - demonstrated track record of iteratively improving process with each new project
• Expertise managing partnerships across ag, industry, and commercial stakeholders

Nice to have

• Degree in biology, chemistry, environmental science, engineering, or related scientific field
• Experience with enhanced rock weathering or mineralization
• Familiarity with carbon credit registries and verification procedures