CBAM Consultant
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No BS summary
CBAM consultant with deep carbon border compliance, embedded emissions accounting, EU ETS benchmarking, and accredited verification expertise. Must be UK-based and able to help build CBAM verification from 0 to 1 while working with exporters, importers, VVBs, product, science, and commercial teams.
Isometric is the AI-native certifier of climate solutions.
We combine scientific rigor with best-in-class technology to unlock the capital and trust needed to reverse climate change.
Our customers, including Microsoft and Google, trust us to help them avoid greenwashing.
We’re looking for doers with a bias to action. Our team is brilliant and cares (a lot).
Join us for the most impactful role of your career—and the best job you’ve ever had.
What is the job?
- Bring CBAM and carbon border compliance expertise to a fast-moving new domain. Help us go 0→1 on CBAM verification. You'll be our in-house authority on how embedded emissions are actually calculated, monitored and reported under the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism—and you'll bring the rigour and defensibility Isometric is known for.
- Run deep discovery with exporters, importers, VVBs and the market. Get out and talk to non-EU exporters of CBAM goods, EU importers, and verification bodies (VVBs). Map where today's reporting and verification falls short, where the real measurement problems live, and where a trustworthy, AI-powered platform can make accredited verification dramatically faster and cheaper.
- Pressure-test what good looks like. Work with our science, product and commercial teams to explore how CBAM verification could be measured and verified more rigorously—building on the same Certify architecture we use for carbon removal. Stress-test ideas against real monitoring plans and submissions, and learn fast from exporters, importers and VVB partners.
- Help us win our first customers and VVB partnerships. Work alongside the commercial team to frame the value prop, get in front of exporters, importers and VVBs, and translate technical rigour into reports and assessments that decision-makers trust and pay for. You're as comfortable producing the work as you are selling why it matters.
Things we're looking for
- Deep CBAM and carbon border compliance fluency. You understand CBAM at a technical level (embedded emissions methodology, default values vs. verified actuals, monitoring plans, the covered sectors—steel, iron, aluminium, cement, fertiliser, hydrogen and electricity) ideally from time spent advising exporters and importers, working in-house on compliance, or verifying/auditing on behalf of a VVB.
- Carbon accounting and verification rigour. You're fluent in embedded emissions accounting (direct and indirect), EU ETS benchmarking, and accredited verification standards, and the hard parts: data quality tiers, the default-value ramp-down through 2030, and where the numbers get gamed.
- A track record of real delivery. You've produced work the industry takes seriously. You've helped exporters or importers prepare CBAM declarations, pass verification, or navigate accreditation—or you've consulted closely enough to do so.
- High agency, commercially minded. You can independently figure out a new area and drive it forward under high ambiguity, with a strong bias to action. You're obsessive about discovery and you're a compelling partner to the commercial team in framing the offer and winning over first customers and VVB partners.
What you'll do
- Bring CBAM and carbon border compliance expertise to a fast-moving new domain.
- Help Isometric go from 0 to 1 on CBAM verification.
- Act as the in-house authority on how embedded emissions are calculated, monitored, and reported under the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism.
- Run deep discovery with exporters, importers, VVBs, and the market.
- Talk to non-EU exporters of CBAM goods, EU importers, and verification bodies.
- Map where current reporting and verification falls short.
- Identify real measurement problems and where an AI-powered platform can make accredited verification faster and cheaper.
- Work with science, product, and commercial teams to explore how CBAM verification could be measured and verified more rigorously.
- Build on Isometric's Certify architecture used for carbon removal.
- Stress-test ideas against real monitoring plans and submissions.
- Learn quickly from exporters, importers, and VVB partners.
- Work alongside the commercial team to frame the value proposition.
- Get in front of exporters, importers, and VVBs.
- Translate technical rigor into reports and assessments that decision-makers trust and pay for.
- Help win first customers and VVB partnerships.
- Produce the work and sell why it matters.
What they require
- Deep CBAM and carbon border compliance fluency.
- Technical understanding of CBAM, including embedded emissions methodology, default values versus verified actuals, monitoring plans, and covered sectors such as steel, iron, aluminium, cement, fertiliser, hydrogen, and electricity.
- Experience ideally from advising exporters and importers, working in-house on compliance, or verifying or auditing on behalf of a VVB.
- Fluency in embedded emissions accounting, including direct and indirect emissions.
- Fluency in EU ETS benchmarking and accredited verification standards.
- Understanding of data quality tiers, the default-value ramp-down through 2030, and where numbers get gamed.
- Track record of real delivery with work the industry takes seriously.
- Experience helping exporters or importers prepare CBAM declarations, pass verification, or navigate accreditation, or consulting closely enough to do so.
- High agency and commercial mindset.
- Ability to independently figure out a new area and drive it forward under high ambiguity.
- Strong bias to action.
- Obsessive about discovery.
- Ability to partner with the commercial team in framing the offer and winning over first customers and VVB partners.
Benefits
- Join for the most impactful role of your career and the best job you've ever had.
Isometric is the AI-native certifier of climate solutions. It combines scientific rigor with technology to unlock capital and trust needed to reverse climate change, with customers including Microsoft and Google.