About the role

Entrepreneur-in-residence building RMI’s market-shaping platform to scale passive daytime radiative cooling technology. Mobilizing capital, coalitions, supply chains, and deployment across high-heat markets.

Responsibilities

Create and lead a new market-shaping platform
Create a framework for rapid PDRC technology scale-up and define appropriate market mechanisms
Identify investors, philanthropies, incumbent paint producers, commercial customers, government agencies, and grassroots deployment partners
Forge a coalition of key stakeholders and solicit commitments to stimulate PDRC production at scale and low cost
Create a deployment approach in which commercial deployments cross-subsidize deployment in vulnerable communities
Build and lead a world-class team
Fundraise successfully to support the program
Coordinate demand aggregation, supply-chain and manufacturing scale-up, blended finance, and standards and certification development
Potentially spin out the platform into a new nonprofit organization

12+ year's experience building and scaling new ventures, market-shaping initiatives, or field-building organizations in climate, public health, or global development, with demonstrated outcomes at scale
Proven fundraising ability, with a record of securing multi-million-dollar commitments from philanthropies, governments, development finance institutions, or corporate partners
Experience designing and closing large-scale market mechanisms, such as advanced market commitments, pooled or aggregated procurement, volume guarantees, or technology transfer and IP agreements
Direct accountability for market mechanism structure, negotiation, and execution
Demonstrated ability to build and lead a team from zero, including recruiting talent, setting strategy, and standing up governance
Fluency across blended finance and supply-side development, including layering concessional and commercial capital and de-risking manufacturing scale-up
Senior external credibility, including a network and reputation with C-suite executives, ministers, and funders
Ability to represent the initiative publicly
Technical literacy in materials science, paints and coatings, or manufacturing scale-up (preferred)
Background in cooling, building materials, or the built environment (preferred)
Experience in India or other high-heat Global South markets (preferred)
Comfort leading in ambiguity and defining the strategy and operating model for a category that does not yet exist (preferred)

Performance-based bonus
Initial 12-month term could be converted to a permanent staff role if additional funding is secured
RMI would provide initial staff support as the entrepreneur-in-residence secures funding, recruits, and builds their team