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title: 'Carbon Analyst at Sylvera'
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# Carbon Analyst at Sylvera

- **Company:** Sylvera
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sylvera/c13b52bb-4162-4d30-b233-487abdb08944

## Job description

## WHAT IS SYLVERA ANYWAY? ‍👩‍👨🌳

Sylvera helps organisations make confident decisions in carbon and commodity markets. We independently assess the quality of carbon projects, track market pricing and supply signals, and provide geospatial and carbon intensity data — giving our clients the clarity they need to invest in real climate action.

We're a team of 130+ scientists, engineers, and market experts based across London, New York, São Paulo, Singapore, and Tokyo. Our work spans market intelligence, geospatial analytics, multi-scale lidar research, and policy analysis. We partner with governments and policymakers to raise the bar for transparency and rigour across carbon markets.

Backed by over $96 million from investors including Fidelity, Balderton Capital, Index Ventures, and Insight Partners, we're trusted by Fortune 500 companies, major financial institutions, and governments worldwide.

If you care about climate, enjoy solving hard problems, and want to work with people who take the mission seriously — we'd love to hear from you.

What will I be doing? ‍‍👩‍💻👨‍💻‍‍

Having found an early product-market fit in a nascent, rapidly growing space, we’re scaling our Ratings Team at pace to support our carbon data platform. We’re looking for a mission-driven analyst to conduct carbon project assessments and help build our expert assessment frameworks ensuring that everything we do is built on robust and comprehensive data and analysis. It’s a critical role at the heart of our business - you’ll work within a large team of multidisciplinary analysts, working together to leverage all the skills and insights necessary to drive value for our customers. You will report to our Nature-Based Solutions Lead.

Specific responsibilities will include:

- Conducting carbon project assessments, providing deep due diligence on carbon projects focussed on providing value to the customer through timely and robust data and insights
- Conduct quantitative and qualitative research, such as assessing project documentation, scientific literature, news reports, modelling formulas, time series data, and geospatial data
- Contributing toward process improvement initiatives and the design of systems and tooling to improve the speed and quality of our assessments
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the business, notably in technology, data, product, commercial teams
- Ensuring that critical quality assurance processes are upheld to maintain our status as the markets most trusted data provider with our carbon project assessments
- Promote and uphold best practices in the team, including keeping customer value at the heart of what we do

We’re looking for someone who: 🧠💚

- Based in London (this role is on-site, with five days a week in our London office)
- Has up to 2 years professional experience in carbon markets or a similar field
- Has deep critical thinking skills and the ability to apply logical principles in order to quickly determine actionable solution pathways to complex problems
- Has experience delivering data insights as well as innovating new analytics
- Has established knowledge of quantitative analysis techniques and high familiarity with common quantitative tools (Sheets, GIS software, SQL, Python)
- Has established knowledge of key concepts of Nature-Based Solutions projects
- Excellent English written communication and collaboration skills
- Fast learner, self-starter, intellectually curious, quantitative and ready to get up-to-speed in a complex and technical domain
- Takes initiative, excellent time-management skills, and adapts easily to change especially when operating toward deadlines
- Is a self-starter who thrives in constantly evolving environments, ideally with early-stage experience
- Cares deeply about the climate and ecosystems of the Earth
- Additional language skills in Spanish, Portuguese or Japanese are advantageous
- We’d like someone highly ambitious, motivated and eager to propel their career forward. We prioritise grit, positivity, and the willingness to get stuck in, and encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match this job description

## Benefits 💰

- Equity in a rapidly growing startup
- Private Health Insurance and Life Assurance
- Unlimited annual leave - and encouragement to actually use it!
- Enhanced parental leave
- Up to 20 days paid sick leave
- No corners cut in having the best tech to do your job
- Access to Mental Health support
- Monthly team socials

Location 🌍

- London, Old Street.

## Our values 🙌

- Own it: We make new mistakes. We build on the momentum of our wins and reflect on and learn from our failures.
- Stay curious: We take a growth mindset to our work, our customers, our market and the opportunities ahead of us.
- Do what’s right - even when it’s hard: We keep our focus on the long-term, even if that means short-term challenges.
- Collaborate with empathy: Our teams deliver through active collaboration. We invest in each others’ success and make the company stronger in the long-run.
- Empower Customers - Make extraordinary efforts to exceed our customer expectations. If we’re serving our customers to the fullest, we can help direct more investment into real climate impact.

What if you’re a partial fit? 🌱

We prioritise grit and positivity and encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match this job description.

## Equal employment opportunity 🌈

Sylvera is an equal opportunity employer: we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

AI note-takers 🤖

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## About Sylvera

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sylvera is a climate data and analytics company providing independent carbon credit ratings, market intelligence, and earth analytics to incentivize investment in real climate action.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture-backed)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Allister Furey

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Climate Data and Analytics, Carbon Markets
- **Target Customers**: Corporate buyers, project developers, investors and traders, commodity producers, policymakers (B2B, Government)
- **Mission**: Incentivise investment in real climate action by providing independent, transparent carbon data and intelligence so market participants can make confident, impactful decisions.

## Products & Services
- **Ratings**: Independent assessments of carbon credit quality across the full project lifecycle, from pre-issuance to issuance and beyond.
- **Market Intelligence**: Comprehensive view of carbon market supply, demand, pricing, and compliance signals across voluntary and regulated markets.
- **Market Gateway**: Platform to distribute and access over 400 million tonnes of available inventory across thousands of carbon projects.
- **Earth Analytics**: Geospatially derived project design and monitoring data (MRV) aligned to key methodologies such as VM0047.
- **Biomass Atlas**: Accurate biomass and canopy height data delivered rapidly, built on over $10M in lidar research.
- **Carbon Intensity Assessment**: Facility-level carbon intensity assessments for hydrogen, ammonia, cement, and beyond.
- **Commodity Insights**: Data on demand, supply, and offtake agreements for low-carbon commodities.
- **Article 6 & CORSIA Hub**: Tools to assess CORSIA supply, demand, and compliance risk in one place.
- **Mechanism Eligibility & Value**: Independent eligibility, gap analysis, and value assessments across CORSIA, LCFS, CFR, FuelEU Maritime, and more.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $95.3M across 8 rounds (including Series A and a Venture Round in January 2025) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sylveracarbon)
- **Notable Investors**: Balderton Capital, Index Ventures, Insight Partners, LocalGlobe, Salesforce Ventures [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sylveracarbon)
- **Growth Signals**: 126 employees (as of mid-2026); operates in 13 countries including the US, Brazil, Singapore, Serbia, and Canada; LinkedIn followers grew 16.9% year-over-year to ~46,400; published the "State of Carbon Credits 2025" report; trusted by leading developers, buyers, investors, and governments worldwide [sylvera.com](https://www.sylvera.com/).

## Competitive Advantages
- Independent, transparent data trusted by both buy- and sell-side market participants and policymakers.
- Combines extensive project assessments, real-world pricing intelligence, and proprietary geospatial lidar monitoring (over $10M in lidar research) into a single platform.
- Covers the full carbon credit lifecycle from early development to long-term value creation, including emerging areas like carbon-differentiated commodities and regulatory compliance (CORSIA, LCFS, etc.).
- Strong brand recognition and trust: listed as the "most trusted view of carbon credit quality" by the company.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening capabilities in carbon-differentiated commodities (e.g., low-carbon hydrogen, ammonia, cement).
- Expanding regulatory and compliance tools for mechanisms like CORSIA, LCFS, and FuelEU Maritime.
- Scaling market intelligence and gateway services to connect project developers with buyers and investors.
- Growing global presence with offices in London, New York, and Singapore, and remote employees across multiple countries.

## Why Work Here
- Mission-driven environment focused on tackling climate change through data transparency and market incentives.
- Company culture emphasizes "making better decisions, faster" for real climate impact.
- Diverse, multidisciplinary team: 23% of staff are in Research (earth sciences, machine learning), 11% Technical, 10% Sales, and 8% Consulting [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sylveracarbon).
- Operates in 13 countries with offices in London, New York, and Singapore; likely supports hybrid/remote work (not explicitly stated but multiple global offices and remote employees listed).
- Backed by top-tier venture capital firms, providing stability and resources for growth.
- Recent job openings include Customer Success Manager, Sales Development Representative, and Carbon Analyst [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sylvera).

## Sources
1. [sylvera.com](https://www.sylvera.com/)
2. [sylvera.com](https://www.sylvera.com/our-company)
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sylveracarbon)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sylvera)
5. [sylvera.com](https://www.sylvera.com/reports/company-overview)

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