Technical Strategy & Process Economics Lead

About Charm

Our mission is to return the atmosphere to 280 ppm CO₂. We convert excess inedible biomass into carbon‑rich bio‑oil and inject it into underground storage for permanent carbon removal. At scale, we can use bio‑oil to make fossil‑free iron.

Our carbon removal efforts began in 2020 with initial purchases from customers like Stripe, Shopify, and Microsoft. Since then, we’ve scaled to thousands of tons of carbon removal, grown to over a hundred employees, and established three locations in San Francisco, Colorado, and Louisiana.

We're expanding our team of ambitious, creative, and hands‑on problem solvers. We value psychological safety, collaboration, and continuous learning. We take calculated risks and treat mistakes as opportunities to improve. If you're excited about tackling big challenges, we encourage you to explore our company values.

Come help us reverse climate change. Gigatons or bust!

The voluntary carbon removal market is nascent, ever‑changing, and complex. At Charm, we’re supplying that market with permanent and trustworthy credits at scaled volumes. We’ve already proven end‑to‑end carbon removal, so our next phase is centered around productivity and efficiency. How can Charm maximize its operational rollout in the most cost‑and‑carbon efficient manner while still being a good steward of our environment?

It’s a question that concerns all of our departments, requiring us to collectively be on the same page, speak the same language, and agree about how we go forward together.

As Charm’s Technical Strategy & Process Economics Lead
, you will be at the center of these efforts. You will support company‑wide strategic decision making and capital allocation planning through analyses that consider the standalone and shared costs and benefits of various initiatives. Your analyses will take the form of rigorous techno‑economic models that will provide significant scientific, engineering, and financial conviction for senior leadership. You will be a key conduit between departments, helping to effectively ideate and iterate on what the future Charm looks like.

The role will report directly into the Senior Corporate Finance & Strategy Manager and work hand‑in‑hand with our Engineering, Research, Operations and Carbon Accounting teams.

• Own and improve Charm's techno‑economic and life cycle models, incorporating new analyses that reflect evolving company strategy and emerging product pathways.

• Develop techno‑economic perspectives to inform roadmaps for new capital projects, technology deployment, and long‑term strategic decisions.

• Translate technical roadmaps into financial models, including cost projections and implications for budgeting and long‑range planning.

• Partner closely with Engineering to evaluate high‑leverage process modifications — engaging directly with technical teams, challenging assumptions, and staying grounded in operational reality.

• Integrate carbon accounting and emissions data into the core business model, ensuring operational realities are accurately reflected in techno‑economic outcomes.

• Present techno‑economic insights and recommendations to internal stakeholders, including leadership, investors, and partners.

• Work closely with Engineering, Finance, Operations, and Carbon Accounting to build cross‑functional uniformity in technical and economic assumptions.

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical, Mechanical, or Industrial Engineering, or a related technical field.

• 6–10 years of experience spanning both technical / engineering and economic or financial work — you have operated comfortably in both worlds and move fluidly between them.

• A track record of translating complex economic analyses into strategic recommendations that informed real capital or technology decisions.

• Engineering fluency sufficient to engage credibly with process engineers on mass balances, carbon yields, and product stream economics without requiring education on fundamentals.

• Demonstrated experience building techno‑economic or financial models from scratch and owning them end‑to‑end — including NPV, IRR, cost curves, and sensitivity analysis — to drive real capital and…