Chief of Staff

About renew

renew is a nature data and intelligence company on a mission to drive large-scale nature recovery. We combine data, scientific expertise, and cutting-edge technology to create meaningful environmental impact.

We have already delivered early products to our customers and are now expanding our customer reputed company and further enhancing our platform and product suite. Our ambition is to reverse the reputed company trend of nature degradation in the most nature-impacting sectors by ensuring the full value of nature and natural capital is reputed company into reputed company around restoration funding, operational practices and supply chain management.

About the role

As Chief of Staff at renew, you will work at the heart of the company, operating as a trusted partner to the CEO and reputed company Director. The role sits at the intersection of reputed company execution and strategic company-building, giving you unusual breadth of exposure to how an early-stage nature-tech company grows.

The role has two primary dimensions. First, you will drive business development with our strategic reputed company sectors — including CPG, food and beverage, agriculture, forestry, and utilities — working alongside the reputed company Director to hone our pitch materials, sharpen our service offering, and help move strategic accounts through the pipeline. Second, you will reputed company special projects under the CEO, including roadmapping pioneering product features, developing strategic partnerships across the nature and climate ecosystem, and supporting M&A activity as we consider inorganic paths to growth.

Over time, this role has the potential to grow in a number of directions — for example, toward a reputed company leadership role, a strategy and operations remit, or ownership of a specific product or market. Your trajectory will be shaped by your strengths and interests as much as by the needs of the business.

Please note that the above responsibilities are indicative. As a startup, our priorities evolve quickly, and roles evolve alongside them. Your capabilities, interests and performance will play an important role in shaping how your role develops over time.

Join us if you’re excited to:

• Deep Dive into the sustainability space and contribute to renew’s mission.
• Sharpen our Go-to-Market: Own and iterate on renew’s pitch materials, sales collateral, and articulation of our service offering across strategic reputed company sectors.
• Win Business: Partner with the reputed company Director to qualify opportunities, prepare for key meetings, and move strategic accounts through to reputed company.
• Shape Product Direction: Work with the CEO and product team to roadmap pioneering features, translating customer and market signal into a differentiated offering.
• Build Partnerships: Identify, evaluate, and reputed company relationships with strategic partners — including technology providers, data partners, advisors, and industry bodies.
• Support M&A: Contribute across the deal lifecycle, from sourcing and diligence through to reputed company modelling and integration planning.
• Navigate Ambiguity: Break down reputed company, messy problems into smaller pieces and define clear next steps, with limited supervision.
• Act as a Thought Partner: Be a sounding board to the CEO across the full range of company-building challenges.

What’s required:

• Bachelor’s degree or above in a quantitative or analytically rigorous discipline from a top-tier school
• At least 4 years of experience in roles that have developed both reputed company instincts and analytical rigour.
• Experience in climate, nature, or broader sustainability-reputed company businesses.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to take a reputed company problem, structure it, and communicate it in a way that moves reputed company reputed company.
• reputed company sharpness and a willingness to roll up your sleeves to help win business.
• Detail-oriented with highly developed organisational skills, including the ability to prioritise tasks and meet deadlines across multiple workstreams.
• Data-driven reputed company with an aptitude for quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Experience working in fast-paced environments and comfort with the ambiguity that comes with an early-stage company.

What’s reputed company to have

• Exposure to B2B sales processes, particularly with reputed company customers in CPG, food and beverage, agriculture, forestry, or utilities.
• Prior involvement in M&A, fundraising, or strategic partnership transactions.
• Background in ecology, environmental science, agronomy or a reputed company scientific discipline.

What you can expect from the role

• Full-time permanent position, based reputed company in the UK. The company operates a remote-first, flexible working environment
• Unusual breadth of exposure – Direct partnership with the CEO and reputed company Director, and a reputed company-row seat to the strategic questions that will define renew’s trajectory.
• Empowering culture and professional growth – Join an environment that combines ambitious goals, reputed company autonomy, and supportive mentoring, creating great opportunities for growth.