Head of Science

UNDO is tackling the greatest challenge of our time: climate change. We are a fast-growing for-profit business that is already one of the biggest carbon removal companies in the world. In 2025, UNDO was named one of four global winners of the $100M XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition, recognising enhanced rock weathering (ERW) as a carbon removal pathway and UNDO as a scientific leader in this field. We’re now leveraging our expertise to deliver the UNDO Platform; the digital, financial, and scientific infrastructure that enables project developers globally to run scalable, bankable, and verifiable ERW carbon removal projects.

As UNDO’s Head of Science, you’ll be a core member of UNDO’s senior leadership team, accountable for our scientific strategy and delivery across various initiatives including:

• Developing and proving new approaches to evidence and quantify CDR at scale, complying with current standards while influencing future standards.
• Creating detailed protocols and processes for UNDO’s operations team and other project developers to implement these approaches successfully.
• Supporting projects by tailoring UNDO’s approaches to new regions and deployment scenarios, providing scientific support, and analysing measurement data for successful verification.

This role requires a scientific background to collaborate with senior scientists, review their work, and ensure the robustness and credibility of our science.

Where you’ll spend your time:

• Leading the science team, collaborating with our Chief Product Officer on the delivery roadmap, and fostering an environment for our senior scientists to thrive.
• Project management: working with our product team on a roadmap that delivers maximum value and ensuring accountability for team delivery.
• Connecting deep science with the wider business: aligning with executive strategy, representing Science at key forums, informing strategic decisions, and increasing scientific literacy across the team.
• Owning the strategy for continuous development and improvement of our quantification approach and the calibration and validation of our geochemical model.
• Collaborating with our Head of Carbon to align with existing ERW verification methodologies and influence future methodologies.
• Supporting platform partners from feedstock and site characterisation to verifiable MRV design and ongoing scientific support.
• Managing the departmental budget, balancing financial sensibility with scientific investment.
• Assisting with due diligence, financing/grant applications, investor relations, and contract reporting where expert scientific detail is required.
• Staying current with the latest scientific advancements and industry trends in geochemistry and enhanced weathering.

We’d love to see from you:

• Expertise in a related field (geochemistry, plant sciences, soil sciences, geology, hydrology), including industry or commercial deployment experience.
• Proven experience managing a team, delivering against business objectives while maintaining scientific rigour.
• Strong ability to translate R&D into deployable protocols and processes, ensuring projects yield required outcomes.
• Proven effectiveness as a cross-functional communicator, translating scientific concepts into actionable insights and building high-trust relationships.
• A balance of strategic and operational rigour, keeping the big picture in mind while focusing on critical areas.
• Passion for environmental sustainability and addressing climate change.

Working environment:

We have a hybrid working model - remote-friendly with an office in Waterloo, London, and a lab space in Kingston, Ontario. There will be a need for in-person meetings with key stakeholder groups such as the Science team and SLT (quarterly offsites) or the executive team (as needed). We recognise the importance of in-person time together and aim to gather the whole team annually for connection.

What you'll get when you join us:

• The opportunity to pioneer carbon removal, impacting the planet positively.
• A committed and collaborative team of passionate specialists.
• Stock options in UNDO.
• Private healthcare cover in the UK and Canada, with options to add dependents.
• 25 days annual leave (plus regional public holidays) and other paid leave such as volunteer, generous paid sick, and dependent leave.
• Enhanced family policies to support diverse personal circumstances.
• Industry-leading pension in the UK, with UNDO matching plus 3%, up to 17% total contributions / CPP matched pension contributions in Canada.
• Pension salary sacrifice scheme in the UK.
• Employee Assistance Programme across all regions - a confidential service for you and your family, offering financial, wellbeing, and emotional support.

We're an equal opportunity employer, looking for the best candidate based on the value they can add. Our culture is important to us, and we welcome applicants of all backgrounds. We encourage candidates who believe they have the required skills and experience to apply, especially those passionate about fighting climate change.