Role: MBA -Summer Intern- Founder's Office

Environment: Remote or Hybrid

Compensation: Market Benchmark

Type of Employment: 3 month internship for MBA students or recent Grads

Other

• We cannot sponsor visas at this time
• We can offer a hybrid working environment in London or Barcelona if you are already planning to spend the summer there, however we cannot assist in relocating you.
  
  

Requirements

Opna’s Vision

Imagine a thriving, equitable planet where everyone actively participates and benefits from building projects that contribute to a low-carbon economy, safeguarding our environment, and combating climate change. At Opna, we want to make this vision a reality - by unlocking the needed capital for every high-quality climate project that addresses climate change with speed, scale, and equity.

Urgent Challenge

We stand at a pivotal moment in the fight against climate change. We must rapidly undo the centuries-long impact of fossil fuels. This demands an unprecedented infrastructure revolution - we must rapidly scale high-quality climate projects that remove and reduce carbon dioxide from our atmosphere. High-quality carbon removal projects, from afforestation to biochar, to newer/frontier technologies encounter formidable barriers in accessing necessary financing - that’s where Opna comes in. We’re combining data, financing innovation, and technology to help high-quality climate projects access right timed, right sized financing, anywhere in the world.

Our Solution

Opna offers a software platform for climate-action-committed companies to finance and manage high-quality carbon projects in a standardised, transparent, and cost effective way.

The world’s leading climate-action committed companies are moving away from simply buying carbon credits, to directly financing carbon projects. Thousands of other companies, big and small must follow suit, but simply do not have the inhouse resources, expertise, or large budgets to contract with projects in a cost-effective, transparent, and knowledgeable way.

Opna’s software allows companies to discover a wide range of high-quality carbon projects, understand their risk and impact using Opna’s proprietary risk-assessment engine, finance projects using standardised tools and finally, monitor and report on projects’ post financing.

We’re making carbon projects financing more accessible, cheaper and 100% transparent, enabling companies big and small to take credible climate action. This also helps solve the massive project financing gap and brings net-new supply of high quality carbon projects to the market.

Our Team

We are HQ’ed in London but also have team members in Berlin and Barcelona. Collectively we have deep experience and expertise across capital markets, carbon markets, startups climate finance, and FinTech. We hold each other accountable and give regular and open communication. We share our optimism for finding solutions to climate change. We’re gritty and actively practise empathy. We are serious about our work, but don’t take ourselves too seriously!

Your Mission

We are looking for a scrappy, enthusiastic and fast-learning individual to support our Founder (Shilps) and Chief of Staff (Matt) across a range of strategic and operational projects, as part of the Founder's office team. Your mission is to support Shilps and Matt in diverse projects ranging from Strategy & Operations, to Business Development & Go-to-Market, in order to help the business grow. What you focus on will depend on your interests and the skill set you already bring along.

This internship provides a steep learning curve and first hand insight into building an early stage venture-backed startup, and the rapidly evolving, super exciting world of climate tech and policy.

Responsibilities

• Support Shilps and Matt on strategic projects: Help develop business strategies & execute on them, making sure we stay aligned with our company goals & objectives.
• Further, define & develop our GTM strategy: Continuously research and analyse market trends, conduct competitor activities, and stay up to date with the changing Brokerage landscape in Europe.
• Drive various strategic initiatives to help us prepare for our go-live, ramping up business operations and ensuring operational readiness.
• Critically question, analyse and improve existing processes. Constantly aim to improve our existing setup, build world class processes around it, that enable us to have a smoothly running organisation.
  
  

Previous Experience That Will Help You In This Role

• High proficiency in English (Written and spoken)
• You have a background in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Computer science or a similar area.
• Hands-on experience in a fast paced environment where you owned the building and delivering of projects/functional areas
• Bonus: You have worked in lean/resource constrained environments or early stage startups previously.
  
  

We think the person below will thrive here…

• You want to dedicate your skills and experience to solving climate challenges and are eager to upskill to keep pace with the market.
• You want to, and are comfortable working in an early stage environment, where your role may stretch beyond the responsibilities of this role and your day-to-day will involve rapid changes and associated chaos.
• You are comfortable working with technology/CRMs/Marketing tools, but are also able to learn, discover and implement new processes, as they become relevant
  
  

Character

• Belief that climate change is the number one problem to solve
• Extreme sense of ownership and urgency to get stuff done, to a high standard.
• Thrives on clear communication and expectation setting
• Thrives with high accountability, high visibility, and high-impact career
• Confident in their ability to proactively collaborate and be autonomous
• Resilient, hard working, and robust to changing environments. Will roll their sleeves up and fight the fires when needed
• Loves the scrappiness that’s the hallmark of early-stage startups while holding high the importance of rigour and robustness in delivering quality solutions for clients.
• Curious, open to differing opinions, and enjoy sharing your knowledge and perspective.
  
  

Interview Process

• Internal Screen and shortlisting
• Chat with Matt (Chief of Staff)
• Asynchronous task for shortlisted candidates
• Debrief with Shilps and Matt
• Offer
  
  

We know that diversity is multifaceted and intersectional, and we want to build a company where different identities and perspectives can come together to deliver on our mission and vision. We are a venture-backed company founded and led by a woman of colour. 50% our team today has their roots in the global south, and a majority of our investors identify as women. We speak English, Hindi, Spanish and French across our team.