Senior Progam Manager

About Cultivo

Cultivo is a leading platform for developing and operating natural assets. Our mission is to accelerate investment into natural assets at scale to build healthy and resilient landscapes. We partner with institutional investors and multinational corporations who view nature as essential infrastructure. Our model generates financial returns through payments for services, primarily carbon removal, unlocked by land regeneration activities.

About Cultivo

Cultivo is a leading platform for developing and operating natural assets. Our mission is to accelerate investment into natural assets at scale to build healthy and resilient landscapes. We partner with institutional investors and multinational corporations who view nature as essential infrastructure. Our model generates financial returns through payments for services, primarily carbon removal, unlocked by land regeneration activities.

Cultivo's technology and data-driven approach streamlines the entire project lifecycle, from origination to management and monitoring, ensuring trust and integrity at every step. As a Public Benefit Corporation, we are committed to regenerating natural landscapes in partnership with land stewards to safeguard critical natural infrastructure and services.

We are a diverse, international team that moves fast, holds a high bar for rigor, and believes deeply that how we work matters as much as what we achieve. For more information, visit cultivo.land.

Compensation: $120,000-$130,000 base salary, depending on background and experience, plus equity options and annual bonus

About

The Role

We're hiring a Senior Program Manager to lead the execution of Cultivo's most complex and high-profile natural capital programs, including corporate scope 3 programs. This is a senior individual contributor role that sits at the intersection of program delivery, client partnership, and cross-functional coordination - and it's critical to how we deliver on our commitments to the world's leading corporations, NGOs, and government partners.

Your initial focus will be leading Cultivo's role in a flagship, multi-million-dollar grassland resilience program. This program spans technology platform delivery, carbon MRV (measurement, reporting, and verification), rancher engagement, operations and payments, protocol development, and scientific partnerships - with a diverse group of stakeholders that includes mulit-national corporations, environmental NGOs, government agencies, research institutions, and hundreds of ranchers across the United States.

That said, as Cultivo's portfolio of managed programs grows, you'll be expected to take on additional natural capital programs and help define what excellent program management looks like at the company. You'll shape how we plan, resource, and deliver across multiple concurrent engagements - building the operational muscle that lets us scale.

This role requires genuine program management expertise, not just project management background. You need to be someone who can hold the full picture of a complex, multi-workstream program: managing interdependencies across technology, science, finance, legal, and field operations; maintaining alignment with external partners who have different incentives and timelines; and making tradeoff decisions that keep the overall program on track even when individual work streams hit obstacles.

Similarly, this role combines program management with hands-on partner support- you won't just track delivery, you'll develop practical resources that help partners to effectively engage with ranchers

You'll work closely with senior leadership, including our co-founders and commercial leads, and will need to operate with a high degree of autonomy, judgment, and executive-level communication skills. This is a role for someone who thrives in ambiguity, moves fast without sacrificing rigor, and takes deep personal ownership of outcomes - staying true to the overall ambition to deliver impact and regenerate land..

This role reports to our Senior Manager of Project Success based out of San Francisco.

What You'll Do

• Program leadership & delivery
• Serve as the central point of coordination for Cultivo's role in assigned programs - owning overall program delivery, timeline management, risk identification, and cross-workstream alignment
• Manage program-level planning across multiple concurrent work streams (e.g., platform delivery, MRV/protocol, scientific partnerships, rancher operations, financial administration) and ensure interdependencies are tracked and resolved
• Drive the program rhythm: set and run internal and external cadences, prepare for and lead stakeholder meetings, maintain program documentation, and ensure decisions are captured and followed through
• Proactively identify risks, blockers, and resource gaps; develop mitigation plans and escalate with clear recommendations when needed
• Own program budgets and ensure Cultivo's deliverables are executed within financial and contractual commitments
• Client &…