Marketing Manager

About Cascade

Join Cascade Climate, a global nonprofit accelerating progress in climate interventions that leverage Earth’s natural systems—from soils to oceans to glaciers—to stabilize our climate. We work across industry, government, and science to help remove the biggest bottlenecks that are inhibiting progress with the most promising natural-system climate interventions. Cascade is philanthropically backed, and since its launch in 2023 has built a strong funding base with anchor support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Grantham Foundation, Quadrature Climate Foundation, and others.

For the fields we choose to tackle, Cascade acts as a field-building hub: coordinating ambitious cross-sector initiatives, creating new tools and infrastructure that accelerate the community’s work on promising solutions, and resourcing critical R&D and policy work. Our approach starts with building deep, trust-based relationships across the entire ecosystem in any given field. Philosophically, we put learning at the heart of our work, embracing uncertainty rather than wishing it away, and helping natural system climate intervention fields shift into virtuous cycles of learning-by-doing. We help chart the evidence-driven course needed to identify interventions that can be deployed safely, effectively, and responsibly at scale.

Cascade’s initial focus has been advancing the development of Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) as a promising climate-smart agriculture and carbon removal solution, underpinned by its scientific evidence base and its potential for gigaton-scale, durable carbon dioxide removal. This year, we are expanding our work to help accelerate progress across the broader family of durable, geochemical carbon removal pathways; that includes ‘sibling’ pathways to ERW, such as ocean and river alkalinity enhancement.

About the Role

As Cascade’s first Program Marketing Manager, you will play a pivotal role crafting our organization’s narrative and communication strategy. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the voice and story of a young organization at a critical inflection point in its growth. Your work will empower us to connect effectively with funders, stakeholders, and the broader climate community. 

You are a mastermind at storytelling and excel at bringing others along with the narratives you create. You might have experience leading a small marketing function at a new organization, shaping the communication strategy for a program or product, working with a marketing agency, or something else altogether. We care much more about you—your capabilities and mindsets—than about your exact background. Do you consistently show up with humility and contagious curiosity? Do you independently learn new things quickly and hungrily? Can you operate well without a roadmap that’s been handed to you? Are people wowed by the quality of outputs you produce? 

• Drive the creation of high-quality external assets from ideation to execution, including 1) organization-wide materials (e.g. overview decks, one-pagers, newsletters) and 2) programmatic assets (e.g. publications, webinars, conference presentations) 
• Support fundraising efforts by tailoring our story to various philanthropic funders, write grant proposals and reports, and create adaptable fundraising materials
• Build awareness of Cascade and natural system climate interventions at-large among target audiences by significantly increasing the organization’s reach through earned media and social media
• Lead the coordination and execution of well-organized events, including presence at various conferences (e.g. Climate Weeks, AGU, Carbon Unbound, etc) and Cascade’s local events
• Develop a “toolkit” for Cascade’s marketing and communication processes (e.g. branding, online presence, content calendars, etc) 
• Manage Cascade’s website, ensuring consistent updates and seamless design 
• Support program leaders in articulating audience persona and creating clear and consistent Cascade messaging to target audiences, including philanthropic funders, industry practitioners, academia, and policymakers

• 4+ years of cumulative work experience in marketing, communications, or a related field 
• Skilled at effective translation, with the ability to distill complex technical subject matter into clear, engaging content for non-technical audiences
• Proficient with media strategies and press relations
• Experience working with a marketing agency and/or strong existing communications and design skills
• Excellent writing skills with a demonstrated track record of public writing
• Preferred: experience with grant writing and policy-related communications  

• Palpably demonstrating the empathy, humility and contagious curiosity that are at the heart of Cascade’s culture
• Ability to embrace tension and ‘inhabit’ both sides or perspectives on an issue
• Uncommonly strong self-driven learning habits with clear evidence of this hungry auto-didacticism in your past education and work experience
• Comfort working under uncertainty and ambiguity without any clear right answer
• Naturally high standards and expectations of yourself while avoiding letting “perfect get in the way of really good” so that you can deliver strong work quickly
• You are excited to dig deep into a range of natural-system climate intervention pathways. This may include research on climate-relevant financing, policy, and market mechanisms or parsing through hairy-looking scientific papers

Location    

Candidates must be based in or willing to relocate to one of Cascade’s hubs. Cascade is headquartered in Boston and has hubs in Washington D.C., New York City, and the Bay Area. We are a hybrid workplace, in-office a couple days a week out of a shared co-working space or our Boston headquarters. We have a strong preference for Program Marketing Manager candidates who are either based in or willing to relocate to the NYC or Boston hub. 

We love seeing each other in person. We gather regularly for team time like retreats, learning experiences, and white-boarding sessions. Be ready to travel at least once per month—and occasionally a bit more as needed—for conferences, team gatherings, and partner meetings.

Diversity      

At Cascade, our mission is to dramatically accelerate progress across a range of natural-system climate interventions in order to ensure a healthy, livable Earth for all humanity. Recruiting, hiring, mentoring, and retaining a diverse workforce that reflects the communities we serve is critical to our success.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. 

Cascade is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Work Authorization

Please note that Cascade Climate is unable to sponsor H-1B work visas for this role. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for H-1B visa sponsorship at the time of application.