Joining the illuminem team means embracing a mission larger than ourselves, a commitment to our planet. We're not just filling positions. We're inviting passionate individuals to contribute to a high-potential venture from its early days. Our team is defined by its diversity, inclusiveness, perseverance, resilience, and relentless pursuit of excellence, ensuring that we don't just count the hours—we make every hour count. If you're ready to work alongside top professionals and be guided by industry leaders, while making a tangible impact, illuminem is already where you belong.

Join a dynamic team that tangibly empowers the sustainable transition, develops each member's potential, and takes pride in redefining the limits of what's possible.

As illuminem continues to grow, our current open positions include:
• Chief of Staff
• Founder's Associate
• Product Associate
• Backend Developer
• Full-stack Developer
• Data Analyst
• Climate Fellow (6 months flexible internship)

Why should you apply?
• Have a story you will tell for life: be part the success of a high potential venture from its beginning
• Join a valued network: join a team composed of top professionals and advised by C-level executives, gaining access to unparalleled networking, career & mentoring opportunities
• Invest in yourself, not only on your CV: learn how to launch a successful business not by reading a biography but by taking the challenge, turning everyday problems into solutions
• Work for a company worth your name: do not compromise on your ideals, but be proud everyday to achieve impact for a real Mission, and simply work in an environment grounded in its values

Please read our Values, and all details on our current openings:

1. Chief of Staff
Drive and oversight strategic initiatives, ensure operational excellence across the company, manage client and investor relations, coordinate teams and tasks, represent illuminem at key international events (COP, Davos, etc.) working directly with the founder. 

What will you do?
• Lead as a founder: you will have the same responsibility and duties of a founder
• Embody the vision: act as an ambassador of our vision and mission, constantly seeking innovative solutions and improvements with relentless dedication
• Be the “leader of trust”: guide our teams and act as a liaison between founders and various teams to ensure seamless communication and collaboration
• Sales strategy execution: plan and implement effective sales and partnerships initiatives; build and maintain crucial stakeholder relationships; attend the strategy meetings
• Top stakeholder management and network: efficiently oversee investors, clients and important stakeholders meetings, including agenda preparation, action item assignments, and follow-ups
• Represent illuminem: join the founders at top global events, and foster relationships with leading sustainability figures

What are we looking for?
• Dedication - you will take on the most challenging job, leading "24/7" a fast-growing organization and its countless challenges
• Reliability - immediately assume key responsibilities from Day 1, evidencing your dependability and capability in essential roles
• Flexibility - live the startup “big picture”, while also intervening in detailed tasks. Lead action across various fronts, from daily and recurrent operations to long-term strategic projects
• Professional experience - possess 2+ years of experience in a fast-paced high-intensity environment, preferably in strategy consulting
• Sustainability passion - demonstrate an understanding and passion for sustainability in your professional approach
• Excellent written English skills - clearly and concisely communicate, capability to manage 50+ important emails per day, distilling insights from documents and discussions with proficiency
• Excellent verbal English skills - build and maintain strong relationships with top stakeholders (clients, investors, thought leaders, public authorities, etc.)
• Willingness to be co-located with our team - either in our Venice HQ  (accommodation provided) or in London, at least 80% of the time 
• Legal work eligibility in Italy or UK - hold a valid EU or UK Working Permit in order to proceed for this position

2. Founder's Associate
Collaborate closely with the company's founders, drive innovation and improvement with unwavering commitment, facilitate seamless communication between founders and teams to ensure unity and clarity, devise and execute sales strategies, and develop relationships with sustainability leaders across various sectors.

What will you do?
• Lead with our founders: work directly with the founders on day-to-day operations and the long-term strategic vision of the company
• Embody the vision: act as an ambassador of our vision and mission, constantly seeking innovative solutions and improvements with relentless dedication
• Be the “leader of trust”: guide our teams and act as a liaison between founders and various teams to ensure seamless communication and collaboration
• Sales strategy execution: plan and implement effective sales and partnerships initiatives; build and maintain crucial stakeholder relationships; attend the strategy meetings
• Meeting management: efficiently oversee investor and senior management meetings, including agenda preparation, action item assignments, and follow-ups
• Represent illuminem: join the founders at major global events, engage in high-stakes meetings, and foster relationships with leading sustainability figures

What are we looking for?
• Reliability - immediately assume key responsibilities from Day 1, evidencing your dependability and capability in essential roles
• Flexibility - live the startup “big picture”, while also intervening in detailed tasks. Lead action across various fronts, from daily and recurrent operations to long-term strategic projects
• Educational qualifications - you are currently pursuing your master's degree or have recently graduated from a top university
• Professional experience - possess experience in a fast-paced high-intensity environment 
• Sustainability knowledge - demonstrate a understanding and passion for sustainability in your professional approach
• Excellent verbal & written English skills - clearly and concisely communicate, distilling insights from documents and discussions with proficiency
• Willingness to be co-located in our Venice HQ at least 80% of the time (accommodation provided)
• Legal work eligibility in Italy - hold a valid EU Working Permit in order to proceed for this position

3. Product Associate
Craft product strategies and ensure successful market launches, conduct market and customer research, track product performance, and collaborate with design and tech teams to create outstanding customer experiences.

What will you do?
• Develop product strategies: support the go-to-market strategy development process for our newest products, and help launch our products into the market
• Market and customer research: analyze our competitors and speak to our customers to understand their needs, identify ways we can differentiate, and help build a winning solutions
• Monitor product performance: perform customer analysis, find ways to improve performance, generate reports and presentations on results findings
• Support product design and tech development: work alongside our product design and tech development teams, effectively communicate the needs of our customers and help them build winning customer experiences

What are we looking for?
• Reliability - you will be trusted and given responsibilities from Day 1
• Experience - minimum of 4+ years experience in product analysis / management
• Interpersonal skills - you will need excellent communication skills in order to engage directly with our customers, tech and design teams, as well as work directly with our Chief Product Officer
• Product analysis - experience with data analytics techniques and tools to analyze large datasets and derive insights
• Enthusiasm - your enthusiasm will be pivotal to dream and disrupt the ESG information industry forever!

4. Backend Developer
Enhance backend services, play a critical role in innovative products development, and carry out maintenance of our current services, providing updates and ensuring optimal performance

What will you do?
• Collaborate effectively: work closely with our Head of Technology to enhance our backend services
• Innovation development: play a key role in the development of our new, groundbreaking products
• Maintenance and optimization: troubleshoot, update, and maintain existing services, ensuring peak performance

What are we looking for?
• Skills - proficient in Node.js, PostgreSQL, Git, and SSH
• Experience - prior knowledge of creating and managing APIs
• Quality - dedication to clean, efficient, and well-documented code
• Expertise - familiar with Cloud AWS, Docker, Graphql or MongoDB (nice-to-have skills)
• Knowhow - capable of operating bash ubuntu and implementing testing platforms (nice-to-have skills)

5. Full-Stack Developer
Build and integrate new pages and functionalities, maintain and improve current products, develop and deploy backend microservices, and contribute to the architecture design for new product releases

What will you do?
Front end
• Web development: develop new pages and features with Next.js, React.js, and any other technology you find appropriate
• Maintenance and support: develop enhancements and solve problems in existing products

Back end
• Microservices backend development: design and implement backend microservices in mainly Node.js

Architecture
• Architecture design: support the architecture development for a new product release (login, user engagement, customization, content ranking, platformization, etc.)

Must-Have Skills:
• Proficiency in Node.js, React.js, Next.js, Git
• Experience in creating and managing APIs
• Dedication to clean, efficient, and well-documented code
• Positive "can-do" attitude and excellent English communication skills

Nice-to-have skills:
• Familiarity with Cloud AWS, Docker, PostgreSQL and MongoDB

NB: we don’t expect you to do all of them! We have positions for each point on the list, but if you rock in more than one thing it’s even better!

What are we looking for?
• Experience - a minimum of 3 years of work experience in relevant fields
• An entrepreneurial spirit - you will see no hierarchy, but a common drive to impact
• Reliability - you will be trusted and given key responsibilities from Day 1
• Flexibility - you will be leading action across fronts, from daily / recurrent operations to long term projects
• Enthusiasm - your enthusiasm will be pivotal to dream & achieve big together

6. Data Analyst
Research sustainability performance by evaluating metrics across industries. Gather data from diverse sources and automate collection processes. Clean and process data, ensure quality standards, and analyze data to unlock unique insights on company sustainability.

What will you do?
• Research sustainability performance: research performance metrics across various sustainability dimensions for companies across certain industries
• Data collection & acquisition: Gather data from various sources including databases, spreadsheets, APIs, and other data repositories, and develop processes or scripts for automated data collection where applicable
• Data cleaning and quality assurance: clean and process data to make it suitable for analysis. Establish and enforce data quality standards and best practices. Monitor data quality metrics and perform periodic audits to ensure compliance
• Unlock insights: analyze and visualize sustainability data in order to come up with unique insights on the sustainability performance of companies

What are we looking for?
• Education - Minimum bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as computer science, data science, statistics
• Experience - 2+ years experience as a data analyst with background in data manipulation, analysis and visualization
• Skills - Proficiency in programming languages commonly used in data science and analytics (e.g. Python, R, SQL). Strong understanding of data management concepts (incl. data modeling, data warehousing and governance). Additionally, experience with data scraping, AI and Machine Learning is highly desirable
• Diligence - you will be doing analysis that will require attention to detail and accuracy
• Enthusiasm - your enthusiasm will be pivotal to dream and disrupt the ESG information industry forever!
• Reliability - you will be trusted and given key responsibilities from Day 1

7. Climate Fellow (6 months flexible internship)
A unique opportunity to gain first-hand experience in sustainability at the heart of an organization globally renowned for its impact and greentech solutions. Work in sustainability information, data analysis, and specific projects, collaborating with diverse teams for a comprehensive learning experience. Contribute to a more sustainable future while expanding your expertise across multiple facets of our industry.

What will you do?
• Dream and achieve big: engage with the best sustainability professionals, experts and activists in relevant fields. Foster their involvement in our projects, enriching our content with diverse perspectives and insights
• Understand what matters: identify the key trends of the sector to guarantee top-notch content quality for our readers
• Empower our newsletters: curate and deliver cutting-edge sustainability & energy insights, ensuring our readers stay well-informed and engaged
• Data collection & acquisition: gather data from various sources including databases, spreadsheets, APIs, and other data repositories, and develop processes or scripts for automated data collection where applicable
• Data cleaning and quality assurance: clean and process data to make it suitable for analysis. Establish and enforce data quality standards and best practices. Monitor data quality metrics and perform periodic audits to ensure compliance
• Unlock insights: analyze and visualize sustainability data in order to come up with unique insights on the sustainability performance of companies

What are we looking for?
• A passion for the challenge - how will you take Illuminem to 500,000 readers?
• An entrepreneurial spirit - you will see no hierarchy, but a common drive to impact
• Reliability / track record of getting things done - you will be given key responsibilities from Day 1. Be output-driven and turn cool ideas into reality
• Flexibility - you will be leading action across fronts, from daily / recurrent operations to long-term projects
• Enthusiasm - your enthusiasm will be pivotal to dream & achieve big together
• A strong academic record - you have a Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent


Do you have any questions? Connect with our team!