Sustainability AI Consultant

Company Overview

Pulsora, established in 2021, is an innovative Silicon Valley software startup focused on enabling purpose-driven organizations to monitor and enhance their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance along with overall sustainability footprints. The company provides a flexible and comprehensive platform designed for compliance, tracking, and insights, supported by strong funding, notable clients worldwide, and strategic alliances with major ERP and consulting firms.

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Sustainability AI Consultant who will act as the authoritative figure in Pulsora's AI-assisted sustainability offerings. This position involves collaborating with AI to deliver compliance-ready, audit-ready, and business-impactful sustainability insights and services. The candidate will oversee technical standards, regulatory compliance, and successful business outcomes stemming from AI-generated consulting solutions, while continually enhancing the AI system through expert knowledge and customer feedback.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver sustainability insights including GHG inventories, carbon footprints, scope 3 assessments, benchmarking, materiality evaluations, CSRD readiness, carbon pre-audits, decarbonization planning, and carbon credit management in partnership with AI tools.
• Provide trusted consulting services to sustainability managers, CFOs, CSOs, auditors, legal teams, consulting firms, and senior leaders regarding sustainability reports, climate disclosures, and strategic business decisions.
• Develop and maintain corporate GHG inventories and carbon footprints applying scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions computation, defining operational boundaries, emission factor selection and validation, addressing data gaps, and documenting rigorous methodologies.
• Conduct detailed analysis of ERP systems, procurement, supplier, logistics, travel, utility, and operational data to generate accurate and audit-compliant sustainability metrics.
• Prepare organizations for third-party sustainability audits by ensuring thorough documentation, traceability, evidence, controls, and defensible methods in line with auditor demands.
• Support decarbonization efforts including science-based targets, scenario analyses, emissions reduction strategies, renewable energy projects, and carbon credit programs.
• Ensure the integrity and regulatory approval of AI-driven sustainability consultancy outputs by validating calculations, legal interpretations, supporting evidence, data consistency, and identifying unsupported AI-generated conclusions.
• Collaborate closely with Product and AI Engineering teams to continuously train and improve AI models, incorporating best practices, refining prompts, and developing evaluation benchmarks.
• Maintain expertise on evolving sustainability regulations, reporting frameworks, and AI advancements, providing thought leadership via webinars, workshops, blogs, and industry events.

Candidate Profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science, Engineering, Sustainability, Business, or related disciplines; advanced degrees are advantageous.
• 4–8 years experience in sustainability consulting, preferably with notable firms such as ERM, EY, Deloitte, PwC, KPMG, Anthesis, or WSP.
• Demonstrated proficiency in constructing GHG inventories, carbon accounting, emissions calculations, and preparing sustainability disclosures.
• Strong familiarity with the GHG Protocol and knowledge of frameworks such as CSRD, ISSB, GRI, SASB, TCFD, CDP, SBTi, EU Taxonomy, California climate laws, and SEC climate disclosure mandates.
• Experience choosing and validating emission factors for regulatory-compliant and audit-ready deliverables.
• Comprehensive understanding of third-party sustainability assurance requirements including documentation, traceability, evidence collection, and methodology defensibility.
• Extensive practical use of AI technologies like Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor or equivalents, including experience with AI-assisted prototyping.
• Excellent analytical abilities, problem-solving skills, effective communication, and experience presenting to executive audiences.
• Adaptable to a fast-paced international environment and committed to enhancing AI-driven sustainability consulting practices.

Why Join Pulsora?

• Engage in meaningful work that contributes positively to the planet and future generations.
• Compensation includes salary, equity, and benefits.
• Opportunity to tackle challenging and significant sustainability problems.
• Be part of a passionate, diverse team at an early stage of a promising journey.
• Hybrid work-friendly culture with onsite presence expected 2-3 days weekly for certain locations.

Core Values

• Honest and compassionate communication
• Transparency in all dealings
• Celebrate diversity and foster inclusion
• Drive positive impact through actions
• Commitment to outstanding customer satisfaction

Compensation

Annual salary range between 60000 to 70000 Canadian dollars.