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Careers at Vaayu
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We believe in the power of
technology as a force for good,
and know we need to bring the
best people together to work on
this world-defining problem. We
are looking for game-changers
from across Europe or equivalent
time zones, who share our vision
to create a better future for people
and planet.
If you are an innovator, want to
work at a purpose-driven startup,
and be part of a team defining
state-of-the-art technology that
will drive down carbon emissions
at scale, we’d love to hear from
you.
Information on Vaayu
Open Positions
If you're ready to make a real impact, join the Vaayu team.
We are always on the lookout for new talent. If you don’t immediately see a role for you, feel free to email us and let us know what you can do and why you would like to work with us at Vaayu.
We're looking for...
... a Product Designer to join a newly formed remote multi-disciplinary team to lead the building of a SaaS web tool that analyses the Carbon Footprint of any given physical product and identifies ways to reduce it.
We imagine someone senior (4+ years of relevant experience in digital product design) with an end-to-end design skillset and a passion for reducing complex problems down to the right balance of flexibility and ease of use. Someone that has experience applying best practices while knowing when to adjust them to the reality of a scaling, fast-paced start-up. Bonus points if you have worked on a B2B SaaS product before.
Being a Product Designer at Vaayu means...
- Full-stack design. As a member of a small team, you're ready to wear many hats. You're comfortable with all stages of the design process, from discovery to delivery: problem definition, user research, concept ideation, prototyping, visual deliverables, evaluation and feature release.
- Systems thinking. Solving climate change requires us to envision the big picture. You have the ability to understand and visualise complex systems, such as a product's lifecycle, and translate it into actionable self-service software.
- Deliberate design. You are data-driven and base your designs on user research and analytics insights. You are able to explain your work, process and decision making to cross-functional stakeholders.
- Data Visualisation. We believe in the power of data to tell a story and prompt to action. You are well versed in telling stories through interactive, clear and usable graphs.
As a start-up, we need people with...
- Entrepreneurial mindset. You're thriving in ambiguity and comfortable working in early start-up, fast-paced environments with evolving priorities.
- Work efficiently. You move fast and allocate your time strategically, weighing the priorities of the design discipline and that of the company.
- Collaborate easily. You combine strong convictions with the willingness to compromise. You enjoy working with other disciplines and empathise with their point of view.
- English fluency. We're a diverse international team from over 17 countries living in Europe (or equivalent time zones) and working fully remote.
Hiring process:
- A screening interview with HR
- Interview with a Product Designer and a Product Manager
- Case study review (existing work in your portfolio)
- Culture-fit interview
- Interview with a Co-founder
About the role
We are looking for an LCA specialist to help support our Data Science team to build the most comprehensive data set for retail carbon footprints. This role is perfect for someone with experience in assessing the life-cycle impact of products.
What this looks like (responsibilities)
- Review LCA literature to find the most relevant data and create highly detailed LCA models.
- Perform detailed calculations to understand material flows and their greenhouse gas emissions.
- Help develop our internal life cycle assessment tooling.
- Support with building internal tools that improve our ability to analyze and validate customer carbon footprints.
Who we are looking for (qualifications)
- Academic background in a related field
- 1 - 2 years relevant experience in LCAs but fresh Graduates are welcome to apply
- Previous experience with LCA software or databases: GaBi, Simapro, Ecoinvent. etc.
- Works collaboratively within a team as well as autonomously
- A passion for solving climate change
- Fluent in English
Benefits
You will be working with sustainability experts and professionals passionate about solving the climate crisis by leveraging technology
Role: Primarily develop and maintain dashboards for internal and external needs. The role could include other ad-hoc tasks. This is a part-time position with a 20-hour a week commitment.
Tasks:
- Write Python scripts to improve the data extraction or load processes
- Test and validate the data in our datalake
- Write SQL queries primarily in Google Bigquery but probably also in postgreSQL
- Develop dashboard and data visualizations that address the customers’ needs and business requirements
- Maintain dashboards already created
- Support the team in ad-hoc requests, possibly involving other programming languages
Who we are looking for:
- Preferably someone with prior experience in the form of internship or part-time work in data environments or with a portfolio of projects developed independently (Github, Kaggle, etc)
- Strong social skills and the ability to work in a team
- A very organized person, able to work independently
- Ability to work and communicate in English, both written and spoken
- Proactive mindset and readiness to take ownership from day one
Tasks:
- To calculate carbon emissions, our platform needs to understand the content of certain websites.
- Our homemade service accomplishes this task by using modules, one per website.
- Your job will be to write and maintain those modules.
- General programming knowledge, in any language
- Bonus: Experience in web development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON)
- Understanding of DOM and CSS selectors
- Understanding of web scrapping concepts
- Unix/Linux command-line interface knowledge
Who we are looking for:
- Experience working in an data/tech related environment, managing relationships with staff, contractors, and service providers
- Strong social skills and the ability to work in a team
- A very organized person, able to work independently
- Ability to work and communicate in English, both written and spoken
- Proactive mindset and readiness to take ownership from day one
Tasks
- Act as the first point of contact for the team and external stakeholders
- Assist the Operations Manager with day-to-day tasks
- Keeping several systems up to date with employee information
- Record employee absences and maintain team calendars
- Provide information for monthly payroll, including new starters and leavers
- Manage, file and upload supplier invoices, expense receipts and any other relevant documents in the accounts system
- Any other administrative duties as required
Who we are looking for:
- Experience working in an office environment, managing relationships with staff, contractors, and service providers
- Strong social skills and the ability to work in a team
- A very organized person, able to work independently
- Native or Fluent German and Fluent in English
- A good understanding of employment regulations in Germany (desirable)
- Proactive mindset and readiness to take ownership from day one
- Managing all hardware and software assets for the team
- IT set up and onboarding for new joiners
- Supporting the team with any tech issues (e.g. troubleshooting bad internet connections, software not working)
- Assisting in the process of systems backup and recovery procedures
- Implementing best practices and security protocols, including data protection (e.g. ensuring everyone encrypts their hard drive)
- Track system lifecycles and plan on refreshes, decommissions, etc. while staying aligned with budgets
- Administrating accounts (incl. Google and 1Password)
Experience
- 4+ years’ experience in IT
- Experience administrating all operating systems commonly used by us: Mac OS and Windows (Linux – nice to have)
- Excellent knowledge and experience with IT Infrastructures including connectivity, networks and security (including remote access)
- Demonstrable past experience in a hands-on IT role
- Excellent organization, interpersonal, presentation and communication skills
We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to play an important role as a people lead for our engineers in the development of our carbon software, used by our online retail customers to help them measure, monitor and reduce their carbon footprint. You will be joining Vaayu as one of the first employees in a fast growing start-up and have the opportunity to help shape everything that comes next. This role is perfect for someone with an intuition for data and who also enjoys leading a team. We value entrepreneurial minded people, who always think ‘customer first’.
Reporting to our Co-founder / CTO, you will provide day-to-day oversight of the engineering teams and will help Vaayu to establish a clear management structure, tightly defined processes, and a positive culture.
This role will require a growth mindset, as we’ll rely on your leadership and guidance r as the team grows from 7 to 20 engineering staff in the next 12-18 months.
What this looks like (Responsibilities):
- Line manage the engineers in your team, by helping them set individual and team goals, and coaching them to bring out the best in one another;
- Contribute to product strategy, set project goals and continue to support and mentor your team as it grows and evolves;
- As an engaged supporter for your team, you’ll proactively evaluate technical feasibility, participate in functional projects definition and be able to suggest technical solutions to complex situations;
- You’ll work in an agile environment and ensure and help your team continuously improve their methodologies;
- Support with assessment and hiring of new team members, in close collaboration with our talent acquisition specialists;
- Grow a diverse, highly-accomplished group of engineers, gaining fantastic exposure to scaling a tech team at a unique pace;
- Create a learning environment for your team and act as a mentor for engineers and up-and-coming leaders;
- Become instrumental in improving and implementing processes and values that scale with Vaayu as a business, ensuring that the team remains motivated, empowered, and capable of working autonomously; and
- Collaborate with cross functional teams including product, design, operations.
Who we’re looking for (Qualifications)
- Your style is collaborative, to encourage your team to continually improve their code;
- You set goals and offer advice, setting your team up for success;
- You're a natural recruiter, passionate about building your team;
- You have at least four years experience as a Engineering Manager or Team Lead, leading a team of at least10 people;
- You have a background in a technical role (engineering, data analytics, data science, product ownership, system architecture, DevOps work, etc.);
- Familiar with best practices on software testing, code quality and designing scalable systems;
- You can analyze the big picture and help the team find the solution that best fits the requirements;
- Ability to manage conflict in an open and positive way;
- Experience working in a team environment, collaborating with Design, Product and Business to deliver measurable data products;
- We currently use the following technologies:
- Programming languages: Golang, Python, JavaScript, TCL, TypeScript
- Databases: Postgresql (Cloud SQL), Neo4j, Redis
- Infrastructure: Google Cloud Platform, Google Kubernetes Engine, Docker
- Other key technologies: Kafka, JSON REST APIs, Vue.js, D3.js
- You’re comfortable working with a remote team and manager;
- A proactive passion for solving climate change; and Fluent in English.
We're looking for...
... a Product Designer to join a newly formed remote multi-disciplinary team to lead the building of a SaaS web tool that analyses the Carbon Footprint of any given physical product and identifies ways to reduce it.
We imagine someone senior (4+ years of relevant experience in digital product design) with an end-to-end design skillset and a passion for reducing complex problems down to the right balance of flexibility and ease of use. Someone that has experience applying best practices while knowing when to adjust them to the reality of a scaling, fast-paced start-up. Bonus points if you have worked on a B2B SaaS product before.
Being a Product Designer at Vaayu means...
- Full-stack design. As a member of a small team, you're ready to wear many hats. You're comfortable with all stages of the design process, from discovery to delivery: problem definition, user research, concept ideation, prototyping, visual deliverables, evaluation and feature release.
- Systems thinking. Solving climate change requires us to envision the big picture. You have the ability to understand and visualise complex systems, such as a product's lifecycle, and translate it into actionable self-service software.
- Deliberate design. You are data-driven and base your designs on user research and analytics insights. You are able to explain your work, process and decision making to cross-functional stakeholders.
- Data Visualisation. We believe in the power of data to tell a story and prompt to action. You are well versed in telling stories through interactive, clear and usable graphs.
As a start-up, we need people with...
- Entrepreneurial mindset. You're thriving in ambiguity and comfortable working in early start-up, fast-paced environments with evolving priorities.
- Work efficiently. You move fast and allocate your time strategically, weighing the priorities of the design discipline and that of the company.
- Collaborate easily. You combine strong convictions with the willingness to compromise. You enjoy working with other disciplines and empathise with their point of view.
- English fluency. We're a diverse international team from over 17 countries living in Europe (or equivalent time zones) and working fully remote.
Hiring process:
- A screening interview with HR
- Interview with a Product Designer and a Product Manager
- Case study review (existing work in your portfolio)
- Culture-fit interview
- Interview with a Co-founder
