Super Pollutant Program Director in San Francisco (San Francisco)

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About Cascade

Join Cascade Climate, a global nonprofit propelling highpotential climate solutions from the margins to the mainstream. The climate crisis has outpaced our response. We need dramatically expanded efforts on nearterm warming mitigation, largescale durable carbon removal for climate restoration, and potential interventions to avoid triggering irreversible tipping points. Many promising solutions remain sidelined not because they lack potential, but because they havent gotten the push needed to overcome adoption bottlenecks. We founded Cascade to provide that push. We do this by leading ambitious initiatives spanning markets, policy, and science to overcome the biggest bottlenecks to progress. Cascade is philanthropically backed and since its launch in 2023 has built a strong funding base with support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Grantham Foundation, Quadrature Climate Foundation, and others.

Our initial focus has been advancing the development of Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) as a promising climatesmart agriculture and carbon removal solution. In 2025, we expanded our work beyond carbon removal to tackle the problem of nearterm warming by pursuing drastic cuts to super pollutants.

About the Role

We are hiring a Program Director to lead Cascades emerging work on lifecycle refrigerant managementa cornerstone of our superpollutant mitigation strategy. In this role you will shape and drive a multifaceted program that advances the destruction and lifecycle management of highGWP refrigerants. We believe there is an opportunity to dramatically curb refrigerant emissions in some of the highestpriority regions of the world through a combination of steppedup catalytic finance, policy engagement, infrastructure deployment, and fieldbuilding. To learn more about our entry into the field, read our recent blog post here.

This is a leadership role for someone who is equally comfortable engaging with policymakers, technical partners, NGOs, and market actors. You will architect and deliver this new programbuilding the team, identifying the most catalytic interventions, establishing strong partnerships, and executing our work with speed and excellence.

About You

Youve spent the last 1015 years working on climate, environmental systems, or regulatory implementation, and know what it takes to move complex, crosssector problems forward in the real world. You bring a track record of quickly turning strategic ideas into action, and of working with partners to build shared infrastructure or unlock systemlevel change. Maybe youve worked on refrigerants, cooling solutions, environmental policy and markets, multilateral treaties and implementation frameworks, or climate philanthropy. Were especially excited to find someone who brings experience from both the commercial and governmentfacing sides of these challenges.

Major Roles and Responsibilities

• Strategy & Program Design: Develop and refine Cascades strategic roadmap to support rapid refrigerant emission reductions through destruction and endoflife management, identifying bottlenecks and opportunities across technical, financial, and regulatory dimensions.
• Regulatory Engagement & Field Enablement: Work with governments, NGOs, and other policy stakeholders to enable and scale safe, highintegrity refrigerant destruction. In particular, you will aim to move the needle on policy design and implementation in Global South countries with rapidly growing cooling demand.
• Market Integration & Standards: Support efforts to incorporate refrigerant emissionreducing activities into environmental markets where there is a fit (e.g., via methodology development, registry engagement, buyer education, and compliance market program engagement).
• Project & Partnership Development: Cultivate and support partners across the lifecycle refrigerant management ecosystemtechnicians, distributors, recollection centers, disposal facilities, MRV providers, and local NGOsto unlock powerful early proofpoint projects and set the stage for scale.
• Storytelling & Thought Leadership: Represent Cascade externally as a thoughtful, trustworthy, and curious leader in this emerging spacebringing clarity to complexity and connecting dots between policy, science, and markets.
• Program Management: Manage internal workstreams and external grants related to lifecycle refrigerant management, with accountability for planning, budget, milestone achievement, and internal learning/feedback cycles.

Core Skills and Experiences

• 1015 years of relevant experience in climate solutions, climate policy, or climaterelated program implementationespecially at the intersection of commercial and policy efforts.
• Familiarity with and experience in refrigerant emission reductions, cooling sector emission reductions, hydrofluorocarbon (HFCs), or other shortlived climate pollutants.
• Strong project management skills with a proven ability to drive fastpaced execution of complex initiativesespecially in dynamic or uncertain contexts.
• Excellent stakeholder management and interpersonal skills, including aligning diverse partners and navigating complex relationships.
• Track record of effective strategic thinking, writing, and external thought leadership.
• Experience leading teams and managing people within and across disciplines and career stages.

Skills and Experiences

• Comfort working across time zones, cultures, and sectors. International experience (ideally in Global South) strongly.
• Experience with multilateral environmental frameworks (e.g., Montreal Protocol, Basel Convention, Kigali Amendment).
• Exposure to carbon markets, environmental markets, or MRV systems.

More generally, we are looking for someone with the following mindsets and interests that are at the heart of Cascades culture

• Palpably demonstrates the empathy, humility, and contagious curiosity that are at the heart of Cascades culture.
• Ability to embrace tension and inhabit both sides or perspectives on an issue.
• Uncommonly strong selfdriven learning habits with clear evidence of this hungry autodidacticism in your past education and work experience.
• Comfort working under uncertainty and ambiguity without any clear right answer.
• Naturally high standards and expectations of yourself while avoiding letting perfect get in the way of really good so that you can deliver strong work quickly.
• You are excited to dig deep into a range of solutions to the climate crisis. This may include research on climaterelevant financing, policy, and market mechanisms or parsing through hairylooking scientific papers.

Cascade offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including:

• Medical, dental, vision insurance with employer contribution.
• 401(k) with match.
• Professional and personal development.
• Unlimited paid time off and generous sick leave.
• 16 weeks of parental leave.
• Flexible working hours.

Location

Candidates must be based in or willing to relocate to one of Cascades hubs. Cascade is headquartered in Boston and has hubs in WashingtonD.C., NewYork City, and the BayArea. We are a hybrid workplace, inoffice a couple days a week out of a shared coworking space or our Boston headquarters.

Given this roles unique needs and geographic focus, our location preferences are: a) A preference for candidates who are based in or willing to relocate to one of our EastCoast hubs. b) Given a likely programmatic focus on South and Southeast Asia, we also welcome applicants based in those regions.

For this role in particular, international travel will be a significant component, especially as we engage in regions such as SoutheastAsia, India, and the MiddleEast. Be ready to travel at least once per monthand occasionally a bit more as neededfor conferences, team gatherings, and partner meetings.

Work Authorization

Please note that Cascade Climate is unable to sponsor H1B work visas for this role. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for H1B visa sponsorship at the time of application.

Cascade is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability status, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.

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