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Pulsora, a well-funded Silicon Valley sustainability software startup founded in 2021, is seeking a Sustainability AI Consultant to serve as the trusted domain authority behind its AI-powered sustainability offerings. This role bridges expert sustainability knowledge with AI-driven consulting delivery, ensuring regulatory defensibility and business impact.
You will partner with AI agents to deliver comprehensive sustainability intelligence and consulting services including GHG inventories, carbon footprints, Scope 1/2/3 emissions assessments, benchmarking, materiality assessments, CSRD readiness evaluations, carbon pre-audits, decarbonization planning, and carbon credit management. You'll act as a trusted advisor to sustainability managers, CFOs, chief sustainability officers, auditors, consulting partners, and executive leadership on sustainability reporting and climate disclosures.
Key responsibilities include building corporate GHG inventories and carbon footprints using defensible methodologies; analyzing ERP data, procurement, supplier, logistics, travel, utility, and operational datasets; preparing organizations for third-party sustainability assurance through documentation and audit-ready deliverables; supporting science-based targets and decarbonization strategies; and owning the technical quality and regulatory defensibility of AI-generated sustainability consulting.
You will validate AI calculations, regulatory interpretations, and identify hallucinations or unsupported conclusions. You'll continuously improve Pulsora's AI by capturing best practices, refining prompts, creating evaluation datasets, and developing validation rules in partnership with Product and AI Engineering teams. Thought leadership activities include staying current on evolving sustainability regulations and contributing through webinars, customer workshops, and industry events.
Required qualifications include a bachelor's degree in Environmental Science, Engineering, Sustainability, Business, or related field (advanced degree preferred); 4–8 years of sustainability consulting experience ideally with top-tier firms (ERM, EY, Deloitte, PwC, KPMG, Anthesis, WSP); hands-on experience building GHG inventories and emissions calculations; deep knowledge of GHG Protocol and familiarity with CSRD, ISSB, GRI, SASB, TCFD, CDP, SBTi, EU Taxonomy, and regulatory frameworks; experience producing regulator-ready and audit-ready deliverables; understanding of third-party sustainability assurance expectations; extensive use of AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor); and strong analytical, problem-solving, and executive communication skills.
