Senior Analyst

Overview

Earth Finance is hiring an experienced Senior Analyst to successfully support multiple projects and work streams across our Renewable Fuels portfolio. This full-time role is based in Seattle, WA. We will not consider remote candidates for this position.

• Design, build, and maintain complex analytical models to evaluate renewable fuels pathways (e.g., SAF, renewable diesel, biodiesel, e-fuels), feedstock supply chains, production economics, and lifecycle emissions.
• Clean, structure, and analyze large, multi-source datasets (market data, policy data, techno-economic inputs, lifecycle data) to generate defensible insights.
• Develop repeatable analytical frameworks and tools to support scenario analysis, sensitivity testing, and long-term market outlooks.
• Ensure data quality, transparency, and methodological rigor across all analyses and deliverables.

• Conduct quantitative assessments of market size, cost curves, supply/demand dynamics, policy impacts, and infrastructure constraints.
• Conduct qualitative research including stakeholder interviews, literature reviews, regulatory analysis, and competitive landscape assessments.
• Integrate quantitative results with qualitative insights to form cohesive, decision-relevant conclusions.
• Critically evaluate assumptions, uncertainties, and limitations, and clearly communicate their implications.
• Contribute to the development of high-quality client reports, technical memos, and briefing materials from outline through final publication.
• Translate complex technical and economic analysis into clear, compelling narratives for executive, policy, and industry audiences.
• Create polished charts, tables, and visualizations that communicate key findings and recommendations effectively.
• Establish and maintain standards for structure, clarity, and analytical credibility across written deliverables.
• Build and maintain deep, current knowledge of renewable fuels technologies, feed stocks, conversion pathways, policy frameworks, and sustainability criteria.
• Monitor developments in SAF, renewable diesel, hydrogen, carbon capture, and power-to-liquids markets.
• Assess implications of evolving regulations, incentives, and sustainability standards (e.g., CFS, LCFS, RFS, CORSIA, EU RED, SBTi).
• Contribute to strategic recommendations on decarbonization pathways for transportation and energy systems.

• 3+ years of professional experience. Experience in Renewable Fuels a plus.
• Familiarity with, and understanding of, existing and emerging renewable fuels global policies and standards, or the ability to get up to speed on these quickly, is required.
• Demonstrated ability to build lasting internal and external relationships, navigate high profile stakeholders, deliver high quality work and manage successful deliverables in a fast-paced environment.
• Familiarity with, and understanding of, heavy duty transportation decarbonization across the aviation, maritime, and trucking industries.
• Experience collaborating with internal subject-matter experts, policy specialists, and external partners to refine analyses.
• Ability to build trusted relationships internally and externally - being responsive, showing technical credibility, and clearly communicating.
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent training and / or experience) is required.
• Comfort with ambiguous, ever-changing situations and the nature of start-ups / young businesses.
• Competent and comfortable with the Microsoft Office Suite, Google products, AI tools, and data visualization tools.

Earth Finance is a dedicated team of strategists, investors, policy makers, technology developers, scientists, and subject matter experts who are committed to accelerating the global economic transition to a sustainable future. We believe climate and sustainability progress is realized when market and policy forces align. We partner with companies to reinvent the extractive business models of today, investors to deploy innovation capital at scale, governments to adopt common sense policies and incentives, community leaders to implement inclusive and equitable solutions, and the scientific community to ground our client recommendations in the natural world.

We are committed to radically accelerating financially successful climate action.

• Salary range for this role is $115,000 - $130,000. Title and salary offered will be commensurate with your experience.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance. We cover 100% of your premiums and 25% of the premiums for your dependents.
• Company funded life and disability insurance.
• Paid vacation and 12 company holidays.
• A 401(k) plan – and if you set aside 5% of your paycheck, we’ll provide a 4% match.
• A super fun, passionate, dedicated team of colleagues committed to creating a sustainable, and financially sound, future for organizations, people, and the planet.