Commercial Analytics Lead

Commercial Analytics Lead

The mining industry has steadily become worse at finding new ore deposits, requiring >10X more capital to make discoveries compared to 30 years ago. The easy-to-find, near-surface deposits have largely been found, and the industry has chronically under-invested in new exploration technology, relying on the manual techniques of yesteryear – even as demand accelerates for copper, lithium, and other metals to build electric vehicles, renewable energy, and data centers.

KoBold builds AI models for mineral exploration and deploys those models—alongside our novel sensors—to guide decisions on KoBold-owned-and-operated exploration programs. In the six years since founding, KoBold has become by far both the largest independent mineral exploration company and the largest exploration technology developer. Our data scientists and software engineers, who come from leading technology companies, jointly lead exploration programs with our renowned exploration geologists.

KoBold has proven its first discovery with materially less capital than the industry average and found one of the best copper deposits ever discovered: the copper is far more concentrated than the global average of copper mines, and this asset alone is expected to generate meaningful revenue for decades. KoBold has a portfolio of more than 60 other projects, each of which has the potential for another high-quality discovery.

KoBold is privately held; investors include institutional asset managers T. Rowe Rice and Canada Pension Plan Investments; technology venture capitalists Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, BOND Capital, and Standard Investments; and natural resources companies Equinor, BHP, and Mitsubishi.

We are hiring a Commercial Analytics Lead to help accelerate our mission.

About the position

The CAL will report directly to the CEO and will work with the CEO and CFO on the most important analytic work informing corporate strategy.

The work will include, but not be limited to:

• Economic assessments of global battery metal market dynamics to help guide KoBold’s commodity focus
• Detailed analysis of investment opportunities
• Financial scenario modeling to inform everything from corporate finance to resource planning and allocation
• Evaluating existing exploration and mining technologies to help guide KoBold’s technology development priorities
• Working with KoBold scientists to prioritize technology development 
• Working with KoBold partners to optimize technology deployment and commercial arrangements
• Battery material commercial analytics
• Leveraging data science methodologies to drive KoBold’s commercial analytics 

Responsibilities

The CAL will be responsible for:

• Supporting the commercial analytics of KoBolds 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

Qualifications

 A great CAL candidate will have:

• 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

KoBold Metals® is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

The US base salary range for this full-time exempt position is $100,000-$150,000.

Location: KoBold is a remote first workplace, we are open to candidates currently residing anywhere in the United States or Canada. All candidates must be authorized to legally work in either the United States for Canada