Commercial Analytics Lead

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Requirements:

• PhD in the physical sciences, engineering, mathematics, or economics.
• MS in physical sciences with 2+ years work experience at a startup, investment firm, or top professional services firm.
• Must have experience with Python, Matlab, NumPy, SiPy or other scientific computing language.
• Must have experience within the data science discipline.
• Must have experience with financial modeling.
• Experience with and/or strong intuition for global market dynamics.
• Regardless of formal training, a strong orientation toward thinking from first principles with respect to science, technology, economics, and business.

Responsibilities:

• Supporting the commercial analytics of KoBold's CEO and CFO/CTO.
• Aggregating existing, as well as conducting original, market analyses on battery materials and battery supply chains.
• Helping to develop detailed economic assessments on specific projects.
• Contributing to the corporate financial model to inform equity and debt financing, resource planning, and project development.
• Working directly with the CEO to prepare materials for the Board of Directors as well for other outside investors or partners.
• Helping the CEO prioritize project expenditures across KoBold’s asset portfolio.
• Helping the CEO prioritize technology development objectives by working with senior data scientists, software engineers, and geoscientists.
• Leveraging large economic data sets to produce high quality analytic reports.