About the company
KoBold Metals is a mineral exploration company inventing AI to explore for the metals we need for a low-carbon economy. Our business is discovering and developing mineral resources, and our objective is to achieve a step-change improvement in exploration success: we aim to discover more tier 1 resources, faster, and with fewer failures.
KoBold has built a fast-growing global portfolio of more than 50 exploration properties targeting nickel, copper, cobalt, and lithium, which range from 100%-owned to partnerships with majors, junior explorers, and prospectors.
Our team includes the best of the industry in exploration geoscience, data science, software engineering, operations, and business. Prior to joining KoBold, our team members made nearly 20 discoveries. Our exploration programs are co-led by our geoscientists and data scientists, who develop exploration hypotheses, rigorously quantify uncertainty in our understanding of the subsurface, and design data collection programs that most effectively reduce uncertainty, drawing upon a large suite of proprietary exploration technology built by our data scientists and software engineers. Our field programs validate and improve the system and have demonstrated material improvements over conventional exploration methods.
KoBold is privately held, and our investors include: institutional asset managers T. Rowe Rice and Canada Pension Plan Investments; technology venture capitalists Andreessen Horowitz, Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures, BOND Capital, Standard Investments, and Sam Altman’s Apollo Projects; and leading natural resources companies Equinor, Mitsubishi, and BHP.
About the position:
In this role, you will work with senior leadership to prioritize and program manage the development of KoBold’s core technologies that underlie our rigorous scientific approach to mineral exploration. You will work with the scientific computing team and the advanced technology group to plan and track progress, deliverables, and budgets. You will provide valuable technical and market analysis to inform our perspective on state of the art technology and build vs buy decisions.
You will join an outstanding team of data scientists and engineers and work closely with KoBold’s world-renowned geoscientists to manage the portfolio of hardware and software we are developing. You will make cost-benefit analyses and manage program schedules.
Ultimately, your role is to help KoBold make valuable discoveries by managing the schedules, budgets, and communications around our technology development programs and partnerships. As one of the early members of this team, you will help build our technology portfolio strategy and evaluation frameworks from the ground up.
Responsibilities:
- Working with senior leadership to plan, prioritize, schedule, and track hardware and software development efforts
- Assessing available state-of-the-art technology, engaging with vendors and partners, and using those insights to help our technical teams prioritize development efforts across KoBold’s portfolio
- Presenting to and collaborating with our external partners and stakeholders
- Developing detailed assessments and working directly with senior leadership to prepare materials for the Board of Directors, and for other outside investors and partners
Work practices and motivation:
- Excitement about joining a fast-growing early-stage company, comfort with a dynamic work environment, and eagerness to take on a range of responsibilities.
- Ability to independently prioritize multiple tasks effectively.
- Desire to learn and engage in the multidisciplinary aspects of mineral exploration.
- Ability to work effectively in a remote work environment.
Qualifications:
- BA/BS in the physical sciences, engineering, mathematics, or economics (advanced degree will be a material plus)
- 2+ years work experience at a startup, investment firm, or top professional services firm (or Ph.D. in above field)
- Experience with Python, Matlab, or other scientific computing language
- Regardless of formal training, a strong orientation toward thinking from first principles with respect to science, technology, economics, and business
Helpful Qualifications Include:
- Experience managing technical projects, deadlines, and budgets
- Experience with hardware and software development programs
- Experience communicating technical content to senior stakeholders or external audiences (e.g., C-suite, Board, investors)
- Working from North America time zones
- Willing to do required travel (less than 10% travel expected)
KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunities for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.
This position is full-time, exempt.
The US base salary range for this full-time exempt position is $100,000 - $160,000