Sustainability AI Consultant - US

Founded in 2021, Pulsora https://pulsesg.com/ the “Enterprise Sustainability Platform”, is a well-funded Silicon Valley software startup.  It is dedicated to empowering purpose-driven enterprises to manage and improve their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and overall sustainability footprint with an integrated, comprehensive, flexible, and innovative technology platform built for compliance, tracking, and insight. We are well funded, have amazing customers across industries and geographies, established strategic partnerships with leading ERP and consulting firms, and are growing fast! 

ABOUT THE ROLE

We seek a dynamic and experienced Sustainability AI Lead to become the trusted domain authority behind Pulsora's AI-powered sustainability offerings. You will work alongside AI to deliver regulator-ready, audit-ready, and executive-ready sustainability outcomes. You will own the technical quality, regulatory defensibility, and business outcomes of AI-generated sustainability consulting while continuously improving the AI through expert knowledge and customer experience.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Outcome Delivery: Partner with AI agents to deliver Sustainability Intelligence, GHG Inventories, Carbon Footprints, Scope 3 Assessments, Benchmarking, Materiality Assessments, CSRD Readiness, Carbon Pre-Audits, Decarbonization Planning, Carbon Credit Management, and other sustainability offerings.

• Trusted Advisor: Advise Sustainability Managers, CFOs, CSOs, auditors, consulting partners, legal teams, and executive leadership on sustainability reporting, climate disclosures, and business decisions.

• GHG Accounting: Build corporate GHG inventories and carbon footprints; perform Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 emissions calculations; define organizational and operational boundaries; select and validate emission factors; resolve data gaps; document defensible methodologies.

• Hands-on Analysis: Analyze ERP data, procurement, supplier, logistics, travel, utility, and operational datasets to develop accurate, audit-ready sustainability calculations.

• Audit Readiness: Prepare organizations for third-party sustainability assurance by ensuring documentation, traceability, evidence, controls, and defensible methodologies that meet auditor expectations.

• Decarbonization: Support science-based targets, scenario analysis, emissions reduction strategies, renewable energy initiatives, carbon credits, and other climate programs.

• AI Quality Ownership: Own the technical quality, regulatory defensibility, and business outcomes of AI-generated sustainability consulting. Validate calculations, regulatory interpretations, citations, evidence, consistency, confidence, and identify hallucinations or unsupported conclusions.

• AI Training: Continuously improve Pulsora's AI by capturing best practices, refining prompts, creating evaluation datasets, developing validation rules, and partnering with Product and AI Engineering.

• Thought Leadership: Stay current on evolving sustainability regulations, frameworks, and AI technologies; contribute through webinars, customer workshops, blogs, and industry events.

ABOUT YOU

• Bachelor's degree in Environmental Science, Engineering, Sustainability, Business, or related field; advanced degree preferred.

• 4–8 years of sustainability consulting experience, ideally with ERM, EY, Deloitte, PwC, KPMG, Anthesis, WSP, or similar organizations.

• Hands-on experience building GHG inventories, emissions calculations, carbon accounting programs, and sustainability disclosures.

• Deep knowledge of the GHG Protocol and familiarity with some or all of CSRD, ISSB, GRI, SASB, TCFD, CDP, SBTi, EU Taxonomy, California climate regulations, SEC climate disclosure requirements, and related frameworks.

• Experience selecting and validating emission factors and producing regulator-ready, audit-ready deliverables.

• Understanding of third-party sustainability assurance expectations, documentation, traceability, evidence, and defensible methodologies.

• Extensive use of AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, or similar, including light AI-assisted prototyping.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and executive presentation skills.

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced global environment and continuously improving AI-powered consulting.

Why work at Pulsora?

We believe that progress happens by bringing together people from all walks of life who have the drive and the influence to improve our world now and for the next generations!

• Ideally have industry and market knowledge of ESG and sustainability

• The company will pay with salary, equity, and benefits

• You’ll get to work on problems that are hard and important

• You get to work on a solution that helps the planet and helps us all

• You’ll be joining an extraordinary team at the beginning of an extraordinary journey

• Hybrid-friendly work environment, in office 2-3 times per week (for those in New York, San Francisco Bay Area, and Munich)

Pulsora Core Values

• Compassionate candor

• Transparency

• Embrace diversity and cultivate belonging

• Make a positive impact

• Delight customers

Join us and become a driver for positive change!