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<div class="sh-color-black sh-color"><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/17/yard-stick-provides-measurement-technology-to-combat-climate-change/" class="sh-color-grey sh-color">Yard Stick provides easy, accurate, and affordable quantification of soil carbon stocks</a>. Our mission is to enable gigaton-scale agricultural carbon sequestration via scalable, trustworthy measurement solutions. We are the measurement backbone of soil carbon.</div>
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<div class="sh-color-black sh-color">Scientists and farmers alike have known for decades that climate-friendly agricultural practices have the potential to remove atmospheric GHGs at gigaton/year scale. But significant measurement challenges have held soil carbon back - until now. By reducing the cost of statistically-sound and agronomically-legitimate soil carbon measurement by 90%+, Yard Stick will dramatically expand the opportunities for evidence-based regenerative agriculture and ranching practices to simultaneously improve ecosystem health, increase farmer/rancher livelihoods, and combat climate change.</div>
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<p class="sh-color-black sh-color"><span class="sh-color-black sh-color">Our flagship hardware technology is a rapid, in situ soil organic carbon (SOC) and bulk density (BD) measurement probe for field evaluation of soil carbon stocks. This handheld device, based on over a decade of soil spectroscopy research, is currently being validated in Midwest farming contexts and, at maturity, will replace conventional soil sampling and labs.</span></p>
<p class="sh-color-black sh-color"><span class="sh-color-black sh-color">Yard Stick’s broader software offering, available now, combines technologies that standardize and economize sample plan creation, sample tracking, and soil C stock data management in an integrated web-based platform. These features help establish a single SOC data authority - a key requirement as regen ag and soil C efforts mature.</span></p>
<div class="sh-color-black sh-color">Our work is funded by <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220921005377/en/Yard-Stick-and-Partners-Secure-225M-in-USDA-Grants-for-Climate-Smart-Agriculture" class="sh-color-grey sh-color">significant recent USDA Climate Smart Commodities</a> awards, additional grants from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/soil-health-institute-awarded-3-25-million-from-arpa-e-to-develop-soil-carbon-measurement-and-monitoring-system-301124040.html" class="sh-color-grey sh-color">ARPA-E</a>, <a href="https://seedfund.nsf.gov/awardees/history/details/?company=yard-stick-pbc" class="sh-color-grey sh-color">NSF</a>, and CDFA, as well as by leading climate investors such as <a href="https://www.breakthroughenergy.org/" class="sh-color-grey sh-color">Breakthrough Energy Ventures</a> (Bill Gate's climate fund) and <a href="https://lowercarboncapital.com/" class="sh-color-grey sh-color">Lowercarbon Capital</a> (Chris and Crystal Sacca's climate fund). Additionally, our co-founding scientific advisory team features some of the most highly-regarded soil scientists in the world, including <a href="https://www.3blmedia.com/News/Dr-Cristine-Morgan-Soil-Health-Institute-Chief-Scientific-Officer-Named-Soil-Science-Society" class="sh-color-grey sh-color">Dr. Cristine Morgan</a> of the Soil Health Institute.</div>
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Accelerating gigaton-scale soil carbon sequestration through affordable, accurate measurement technology.

<div><span style="font-size:24px;">About The Role</span></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;">Yard Stick is looking for a Soil Scientist with Pedometrics expertise to help us combat climate change with soil. You will ensure that high-quality proximal sensing principles are integrated across all Yard Stick functions, supporting our mission to replace lab analysis of soil carbon with in situ spectroscopy.  The ideal candidate is a soil scientist with experience in both soil spectroscopy and pedology with a combination of field work, lab work, and data processing methods.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;">On a typical day, our field team is out collecting data on farms, taking soil cores and spectral readings. This data is ingested by our data pipeline and transformed into carbon stock estimates through our evolving modeling architecture. You will provide the pedometric and soil science domain knowledge to advise our hardware team on building our spectroscopic soil probe, our software team on designing soil sampling projects, and our data science team on building robust carbon stock predictions from spectral data.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;">This is a dream job for a soil scientist with a background in proximal sensing and pedometrics who enjoys designing and running end-to-end soil spectroscopy experiments to push the boundaries of vis-NIR soil spectroscopy and SOC quantification.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;">Yard Stick is a remote-first company and the team is distributed around the U.S. If you want to be part of engaged and multidisciplinary research teams at a rapidly-growing startup with literal planetary-scale impact, you will thrive at Yard Stick. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;">We’d like to hire this person to start ASAP.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:24px;">About Yard Stick PBC</span></div><div><a style="font-size:16px;" href="https://www.useyardstick.com/">Yard Stick</a><span style="font-size:16px;"> is a remote-first climate tech startup with a hardware lab in Oakland, CA and team members all over the US. We are on a mission to reverse climate change with agriculture. Scientists and farmers alike know that climate-friendly agricultural practices have the potential to remove atmospheric CO2 at gigaton/year scale. When these practices are adopted, more carbon is stored in soils, improving soil health and fighting climate change. But significant measurement challenges have held soil carbon efforts back - until now.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;">By reducing the cost of soil carbon measurement by 70-90%, Yard Stick will dramatically expand the opportunities for evidence-based regenerative practices to simultaneously improve ecosystem health, increase farmer income, and combat climate change. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;">Current soil carbon measurement technologies are slow, expensive, and cumbersome, relying on conventional soil cores and labs to quantify carbon stocks. In contrast, Yard Stick is fast and cheap - without sacrificing accuracy. As a testament to our technology’s potential, alongside our scientific collaborators, we were awarded </span><a style="font-size:16px;" href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220921005377/en/Yard-Stick-and-Partners-Secure-225M-in-USDA-Grants-for-Climate-Smart-Agriculture">$18M across six USDA Climate-Smart Commodities projects</a><span style="font-size:16px;">, and we have additional grant financing from </span><a style="font-size:16px;" href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/soil-health-institute-awarded-3-25-million-from-arpa-e-to-develop-soil-carbon-measurement-and-monitoring-system-301124040.html">ARPA-E</a><span style="font-size:16px;">, </span><a style="font-size:16px;" href="https://seedfund.nsf.gov/awardees/history/details/?company=yard-stick-pbc">NSF</a><span style="font-size:16px;">, CDFA, and other discerning grant-makers. We’ve also raised another nearly $18M from top climate VCs, including Toyota Climate Venture Fund, Lowercarbon Capital, Breakthrough Energy Ventures (Bill Gates’ climate fund), Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund, The Nature Conservancy, Extania, Pillar VC, MCJ Collective… the list goes on!</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;">For more background, check out some coverage of Yard Stick in </span><a style="font-size:16px;" href="https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/17/yard-stick-measure-soil-carbon/?ref=ctvc.co&amp;guccounter=1">TechCrunch</a><span style="font-size:16px;">, </span><a style="font-size:16px;" href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90796487/is-regenerative-agriculture-the-future-of-farming-or-the-next-greenwashing-fad">Fast Company</a><span style="font-size:16px;">, and </span><a style="font-size:16px;" href="https://agfundernews.com/yard-stick-lands-18m-to-equip-agrifood-with-faster-cheaper-soil-carbon-measurement-tools">AgFunder</a><span style="font-size:16px;">.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;">We offer competitive salary and equity (benchmarked to 75th percentile of high-growth US tech compensation), health/dental/vision insurance, a 401k, and home-office reimbursements. We have many team members with young families and have a strong track record of creative, flexible approaches to hours and communication expectations which let folks feel great about their commitments both to Yard Stick and their lives outside of work. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;">We’re also a </span><a style="font-size:16px;" href="https://www.helloresolve.com/analysis/public-benefit-corporations-what-they-are-and-why-you-should-care/">PBC</a><span style="font-size:16px;">, or public benefit corporation, which is an alternative corporate structure which protects our ability to prioritize climate impact over profits if the two are in conflict. You can read more about PBCs in </span><a style="font-size:16px;" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kXGtzrV1g-Bxaa48kpbQOJK4xAitpHoJYlidSF2-54w/edit?usp=sharing">this article</a><span style="font-size:16px;"> which also specifically features Yard Stick.</span></div><br><br><h3>Responsibilities</h3><ul><li>Leverage soil domain knowledge to support Yard Stick’s spectroscopic hardware and modeling needs.</li><li>Design and run end-to-end in situ soil spectroscopy experiments to contribute to our novel spectral soil probe R&amp;D in collaboration with Data Science and Hardware.</li><li>Enable SOC measurement and prediction leveraging spectroscopy informed pedometric techniques.</li><li>Assist with determining the suitability of new spectral probe projects based on soil data.</li><li>Assist with the development and refinement of methods and best practices for the measurement of SOC, IC, bulk density, etc., via conventional laboratory analyses.</li><li>Liaise with the customer success team to answer soils questions. Help build relationships with laboratories, industry, and academic partnerships. </li></ul><h3>Qualifications (Must Have)</h3><ul><li><b>Advanced degree or comparable expertise in soil science and pedology</b>. Whether or not you have an MS or PhD, you have the expertise of one. You have a working understanding of how soils vary across a landscape, ecosystems, and farming systems. </li><li><b>Pedometrics and Proximal Sensing Expert</b>. You have 2+ years of experience with pedometrics and proximal sensing with a focus in spectroscopy. </li><li><b>Stats and programming experience</b>.  You are no stranger to statistical and modeling techniques (Linear Regression, Partial Least Squares, Random Forest, Neural Networks, etc.). You are competent in Python or R. You can wrangle, clean, and leverage R and/or Python ecosystem packages to visualize and analyze large datasets to drive insights.</li><li><b>Research &amp; design foundation</b>. You show demonstrated experience with experimental design. You are capable of creatively and collaboratively approaching novel problems. </li><li><b>Soils laboratory experience</b>. Having spent at least 1+ year(s) in a soils laboratory; you have a strong framework for the fundamentals of soil laboratory methods.  </li><li><b>Ability to leverage geospatial data</b>. Proficiency with geospatial data, mapping, pathing, and public sources of such data (SSURGO, GSSURGO, etc.) and command of tools (QGIS, geopandas, etc.) to manipulate such data.</li><li><b>Passion for climate impact</b> and enthusiasm to learn, teach and collaborate!</li></ul><h3>Qualifications (Nice To Have)</h3><ul><li><b>Project Management Experience</b>. You have experience spinning up and executing long term projects. You know how to coordinate with a team to see a project to completion </li><li><b>Ability to communicate Yard Stick’s scientific approach to multiple audiences</b>. You have demonstrated experience presenting to audiences of diverse technical backgrounds.</li><li><b>Experience collaborating on publication strategy</b>. Ability to take collaborative ownership of our publication strategy, working with our industry and academic partners to publish on themes relevant to Yard Stick’s spectroscopic probe research and design.</li></ul><br><div><span style="font-size:24px;">Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion</span></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;">Yard Stick’s impact goals go well beyond climate science. Why? Our company operates primarily in the US agricultural sector, which is predicated on centuries of mass land theft and disenfranchisement of Native and Black people. This harm continues today. If we’re going to work in this sector, we need to leave it better than we found it.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;">Consistent with our core value of “</span><a style="font-size:16px;" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BbNYRtAkLMPAOdjAYDqjRcH1Bb5zTSKrwvtMMweQ9YM/edit#heading=h.3i6u0lyxovul">Pursue Justice</a><span style="font-size:16px;">,” we speak up about these issues, and we support emerging solutions and relevant policy efforts such as </span><a style="font-size:16px;" href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/hr40">H.R.40</a><span style="font-size:16px;"> and </span><a style="font-size:16px;" href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/s300">S.300</a><span style="font-size:16px;">. We also </span><a style="font-size:16px;" href="https://myclimatejourney.substack.com/p/the-growing-climate-solutions-act">publicly highlight the risk of further racial discrimination</a><span style="font-size:16px;"> in emerging agricultural legislation like the Growing Climate Solutions Act and in press coverage ensure that the discrimination in past and present US agriculture is part of the conversation right alongside more typical topics like who our customers are, or how our tech works.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:16px;">Regarding hiring and culture, we work to create a work environment where everyone feels confident sharing their ideas, problem-solving happens openly and collaboratively, and mistake-making is welcomed. We’ve recently organized lunchtime all-team discussions on issues like </span><a style="font-size:16px;" href="https://floridafarmworkers.org/articles/documentary-the-fields-of-immokalee/">labor equity in Florida produce</a><span style="font-size:16px;">, </span><a style="font-size:16px;" href="https://www.thenation.com/article/society/black-farmers-pigford-debt/">Pigford v. Glickman</a><span style="font-size:16px;"> (the largest US civil rights settlement in history), and other contemporary moral concerns in agriculture. When hiring, we standardize our interview process and questions to reduce “likeability” bias, benchmark salaries against industry databases to reduce negotiation, and utilize tools like the </span><a style="font-size:16px;" href="http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com">Gender Decoder</a><span style="font-size:16px;">. Climate change is arguably the most complex challenge ever faced by humanity - we need all of humanity activated to fight back, and that motivates us to build a diverse team.</span></div>

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<div>Hey there! </div><div><br></div><div>Are you interested in Yard Stick, but none of the roles fit? We'd still love to hear from you! </div><div><br></div><div>Please drop us a line introducing yourself. We keep all applicants on file. If we open a role and we think you're a good match, we'll be in touch. </div><br><br><h3>Roles We're Likely To be Hiring For</h3><ul><li>All things software</li><li>All things hardware</li><li>All things data science</li><li>Marketing</li><li>Sales</li><li>Soil Carbon Specialists (aka the field team)</li><li>... and more</li></ul><br><div><span style="font-size:24px;">About Yard Stick PBC</span></div><div><a style="font-size:11pt;" href="https://www.useyardstick.com/">Yard Stick</a><span style="font-size:11pt;"> is a remote-first, seed-stage company, with founders based in Boston, Oakland, and Chicago. We are on a mission to reverse climate change with agriculture. Scientists and farmers alike know that climate-friendly agricultural practices have the potential to remove atmospheric CO2 at gigaton/year scale. When these practices are adopted, more carbon is stored in soils, improving soil health and fighting climate change. But significant measurement challenges have held soil carbon efforts back - until now.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;">By reducing the cost of soil carbon measurement by 90%+, Yard Stick will dramatically expand the opportunities for evidence-based regenerative practices to simultaneously improve ecosystem health, increase farmer income, and combat climate change.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;">Current soil carbon measurement technologies are slow, expensive, and cumbersome, relying on conventional soil cores and labs to quantify carbon stocks. In contrast, Yard Stick is fast and cheap - without sacrificing accuracy. Alongside our scientific collaborators, we were </span><a style="font-size:11pt;" href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/soil-health-institute-awarded-3-25-million-from-arpa-e-to-develop-soil-carbon-measurement-and-monitoring-system-301124040.html">awarded a $3.6M grant from the DOE ARPA-E Smartfarm</a><span style="font-size:11pt;"> program in Fall 2020. For more background, check out some recent coverage in </span><a style="font-size:11pt;" href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/17/yard-stick-provides-measurement-technology-to-combat-climate-change/">TechCrunch</a><span style="font-size:11pt;"> or </span><a style="font-size:11pt;" href="https://www.treehugger.com/can-soil-save-us-company-intends-find-out-5198965">Treehugger</a><span style="font-size:11pt;">.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;">We've also raised money from top climate VCs, including </span><a style="font-size:11pt;" href="https://www.breakthroughenergy.org/">Breakthrough Energy Ventures</a><span style="font-size:11pt;"> (Bill Gates' climate fund), </span><a style="font-size:11pt;" href="https://lowercarboncapital.com/">Lowercarbon Capital</a><span style="font-size:11pt;"> (Chris and Crystal Sacca's climate fund), </span><a style="font-size:11pt;" href="https://www.mcjcollective.com/">MCJ Collective</a><span style="font-size:11pt;">, and others. This financing isn’t announced, because that can feel a bit cart before the horse, but we're happy to share more detail about our fundraising when we chat.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;">We offer competitive salary, equity for permanent roles, health insurance, a 401k, and home-office reimbursements. In terms of flexible schedules, we have a number of founders and other team members with young families and have a strong track record of creative, flexible approaches to hours and communication expectations which let folks feel great about their commitments both to Yard Stick and their family.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:24px;">Our Commitment to Equitable Hiring + Culture</span></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;">Yard Stick’s impact goals go well beyond climate science (although our #1 value is Climate Impact). Why? Our company operates primarily in the US agricultural sector, which is predicated on centuries of mass land theft and disenfranchisement of Native and Black people. This harm continues today. If we’re going to work in this sector, we need to actively work to make it better.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;">Consistent with our core value of “</span><a style="font-size:11pt;" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RhQub_w6f-N6d05pgYsCyDC8wNOvVwCvSALg6Wh-itw/edit?usp=sharing">Pursue Justice</a><span style="font-size:11pt;">,” we speak up about these issues, and we support emerging solutions and relevant policy efforts such as </span><a style="font-size:11pt;" href="http://h.r.40/">H.R.40</a><span style="font-size:11pt;"> and </span><a style="font-size:11pt;" href="http://s.300/">S.300</a><span style="font-size:11pt;">. We also</span><a style="font-size:11pt;" href="https://myclimatejourney.substack.com/p/the-growing-climate-solutions-act"> publicly highlight the risk of further racial discrimination</a><span style="font-size:11pt;"> in emerging agricultural legislation like the Growing Climate Solutions Act.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;">Regarding hiring and culture, we work to create a work environment where everyone feels confident sharing their ideas, problem-solving happens openly and collaboratively, and mistake-making is welcomed. We also standardize our interview process and questions to reduce “likeability” bias, benchmark salaries against industry databases to reduce negotiation, and utilize tools like the Gender Decode. Climate change is arguably the most complex challenge ever faced by humanity - we need all of humanity activated to fight back, and that motivates us to build a diverse team.</span></div>

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<div><span style="font-size:24px;">Overview</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;">Yard Stick is looking for a number of </span><b style="font-size:11pt;">Soil Carbon Field Technicians</b><span style="font-size:11pt;"> to help us fight climate change with soil. This role is an essential part of Yard Stick’s primary on-the-ground operations, deploying our novel soil carbon measurement technology as well as traditional soil testing methodology on fields across the US.  This is a contracted seasonal/part-time 1099 position. We are a small company with big ambitions, and therefore we need people who are highly entrepreneurial, reliable, comfortable with travel, and committed to working towards solving climate change. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;">Location flexible, and significant cross-country travel is required. Hourly pay (including pay for time spent travel), and travel expenses will be paid for. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:24px;">About Yard Stick PBC</span></div><div><br></div><div><a style="font-size:11pt;" href="https://www.useyardstick.com/">Yard Stick</a><span style="font-size:11pt;"> is a remote-first, seed-stage company, with founders based in Boston and Oakland. We are on a mission to reverse climate change with agriculture. Scientists and farmers alike know that climate-friendly agricultural practices have the potential to remove atmospheric CO2 at gigaton/year scale. When these practices are adopted, more carbon is stored in soils, improving soil health and fighting climate change. But significant measurement challenges have held soil carbon efforts back - until now.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;">By reducing the cost of soil carbon measurement by 90%+, Yard Stick will dramatically expand the opportunities for evidence-based regenerative practices to simultaneously improve ecosystem health, increase farmer income, and combat climate change. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;">Current soil carbon measurement technologies are slow, expensive, and cumbersome, relying on conventional soil cores and labs to quantify carbon stocks. In contrast, Yard Stick is fast and cheap - without sacrificing accuracy. As a testament to our technology’s potential, alongside our scientific collaborators, we were </span><a style="font-size:11pt;" href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/soil-health-institute-awarded-3-25-million-from-arpa-e-to-develop-soil-carbon-measurement-and-monitoring-system-301124040.html">awarded a $3.6M grant from the DOE ARPA-E Smartfarm</a><span style="font-size:11pt;">  as well as other highly competitive grant programs which reward technical merit like NSF SBIR. For more background, check out some coverage in </span><a style="font-size:11pt;" href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/17/yard-stick-provides-measurement-technology-to-combat-climate-change/">TechCrunch</a><span style="font-size:11pt;"> or </span><a style="font-size:11pt;" href="https://www.treehugger.com/can-soil-save-us-company-intends-find-out-5198965">Treehugger</a><span style="font-size:11pt;">.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;">We've also raised money from top climate VCs, including </span><a style="font-size:11pt;" href="https://www.breakthroughenergy.org/">Breakthrough Energy Ventures</a><span style="font-size:11pt;"> (Bill Gates' climate fund), </span><a style="font-size:11pt;" href="https://lowercarboncapital.com/">Lowercarbon Capital</a><span style="font-size:11pt;"> (Chris and Crystal Sacca's climate fund), </span><a style="font-size:11pt;" href="https://www.mcjcollective.com">MCJ Collective</a><span style="font-size:11pt;">, and others. Details of the financing aren’t announced in a press release or article, because that can feel a bit cart before the horse, but we're happy to share more detail about our funding when we chat.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:24px;">About The Role</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;">This Soil Carbon Tech role is critical to the success and rollout of Yard Stick’s offerings and works in-field across the country and a variety of project types to meet our R+D and client goals. The Yard Stick team and our client base is spread across the country, but our current focus is primarily in the Midwest. We’re growing quickly, and this position will be an essential role with significant responsibility. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;">You will be primarily responsible for testing our hardware and software in fields across the US to help us evaluate and improve our technology’s accuracy, durability, and usability. You will be leading projects geared towards calibrating our technology, as well as collecting measurements to quantify stocks on client lands using a variety of different methodologies. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;">You’ll provide feedback on hardware and software tools alike, as Yard Stick has innovative offerings in both domains. Obviously, when stuff breaks, you’ll document why and help us brainstorm ways to improve. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;">Yard Stick’s offerings combine a large number of disparate disciplines, including highly technical hardware, a web app which manages carbon measurement and GIS data, and ML pipelines which connect the two. This person ultimately will work cross-disciplinarily along with our hardware, software, soil science, and business teams alike to maximize the pace of Yard Stick’s R&amp;D and therefore climate impact, so the ability to communicate clearly to a wide range of people is a must.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;">We need someone who can handle rigorous field work with efficiency and exceptional precision. The ideal candidate for this role is comfortable traveling, working outdoors, handling a wide array of equipment, and working in a team off 2-6 people through projects that can include rapid schedule changes, long days, and inclement weather. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;">Currently, Yard Stick is focused on proof of concept of our in situ spectral probe. Generating high-quality, publishable data requires excellent field operations. In parallel, we’re also creating our commercial offerings. This role will be crucial in carrying out both streams of work.</span></div><br><br><h3>Qualifications - Must Have</h3><ul><li><b>Some combination of education and/or experience in natural sciences, agriculture, conservation, soil science, natural resource management or another related field of study. </b>We don’t require formal education, but one way or another, you have the experience that’ll make you comfortable on farms and around producers, and are no stranger to having your hands in the dirt. </li><li><b>Extensive experience and comfort with physical field work. </b>Experience working with your hands out in the field is key to this role. You don’t flinch at the idea of 8 hours in the sun moving from customer farm to farm, sometimes for two weeks straight.</li><li><b>Comfort with field tools, technologies and strategies. </b>Our offerings use technologies like GPS, ATVs, and mobile app-based sample inventory tracking systems. You can drive an ATV, or you’re not afraid to learn. You use mechanical tools comfortably. Note: Yard Stick will provide a vehicle if you don’t have one for this role, or will generously reimburse if you do.</li><li><b>Attention to detail and commitment to craft. </b>When you take a 30 cm soil core, it’s 30 cm. You care deeply about the details. You take written instructions well, triple-check your work by nature, and will follow an SOP to the letter. You are proud to do your work very well.</li><li><b>Strong personal independence and entrepreneurial autonomy. </b>If you can’t get your boss on the phone, you figure it out. You assess the situation, consider solutions, make a plan, and execute, even if your closest coworker is 100 miles away.</li><li><b>Comfort with extended travel. </b> Projects can often be in remote areas of the country -- spending a week or two at a time away from home is essential to this role.</li><li><b>Personal enthusiasm and comfort in agricultural contexts. </b>You care about farming or ranching. The idea of helping activate agriculture to fight against climate change excites you. It matters to you that you’re working on a problem of existential significance.</li><li><b>Ability to share product feedback to improve systems. </b>When you’re asked for feedback, you pay attention and communicate observations clearly, especially in writing. You document things carefully and are curious when using new products or technologies.</li><li><b>Existing permanent authorization to work in the United States.</b></li></ul><h3>Qualifications - Nice To Have</h3><ul><li><b>Personal, durable enthusiasm for the challenge of climate change.</b></li><li><b>Awareness of current issues in carbon markets - particularly carbon removal. </b>You’ve heard of offsets/credits and some of the attendant criticism of low-quality projects of the past and present. You’ve got some basic knowledge about how carbon markets work, and you’ve heard about how carbon removal is a new, exciting, and controversial approach to climate challenges.</li><li><b>There will be a significant portion of the year that we’re not sampling, and we’re interested in other skills you can bring to the team! </b>Specifically if you have any of the following, we’d love to hear about it: GIS or other mapping software; vehicle and equipment maintenance; equipment + logistics management; agricultural sales or similar; agronomy; data science, etc.</li></ul><h3>Compensation and Other Details</h3><ul><li>$30-40/hr to start, with travel expenses (including time) paid. Performance raise after a set number of projects have been completed. </li><li>Remote first, Midwest/Plains preferred (NE/KS/CO/IA)</li></ul><br><div><span style="font-size:16pt;">Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;">Yard Stick’s impact goals go well beyond climate science (although our #1 core value is Climate Impact). Why? Our company operates primarily in the US agricultural sector, which is predicated on centuries of mass land theft and disenfranchisement of Native and Black people. This harm continues today. If we’re going to work in this sector, we need to actively work to make it better.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;">Consistent with our core value of “</span><a style="font-size:11pt;" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RhQub_w6f-N6d05pgYsCyDC8wNOvVwCvSALg6Wh-itw/edit?usp=sharing">Pursue Justice</a><span style="font-size:11pt;">,” we speak up about these issues, and we support emerging solutions and relevant policy efforts such as </span><a style="font-size:11pt;" href="http://H.R.40">H.R.40</a><span style="font-size:11pt;"> and </span><a style="font-size:11pt;" href="http://S.300">S.300</a><span style="font-size:11pt;">. We also </span><a style="font-size:11pt;" href="https://myclimatejourney.substack.com/p/the-growing-climate-solutions-act">publicly highlight the risk of further racial discrimination</a><span style="font-size:11pt;"> in emerging agricultural legislation like the Growing Climate Solutions Act.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;">Regarding hiring and culture, we work to create a work environment where everyone feels confident sharing their ideas, problem-solving happens openly and collaboratively, and mistake-making is welcomed. We also standardize our interview process and questions to reduce “likeability” bias, benchmark salaries against industry databases to reduce negotiation, and utilize tools like the Gender Decoder (this one is</span><a href="http://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/results/bb901375-3e5e-4307-a4da-a5397bdcfc4b"> feminine-coded</a><span style="font-size:11pt;">, fwiw). Climate change is arguably the most complex challenge ever faced by humanity - we need all of humanity activated to fight back, and that motivates us to build a diverse team.</span></div>

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