Associate Director, Engineering & Sustainability Program Lead

Associate Director, Engineering & Sustainability Program Lead

Compensation Range: $150,000-$200,000 based on experience. Location: This role's location is in San Francisco/ Bay Area (hybrid), 3-4 times a month.

Stok leads organizations to decarbonize now. We integrate expertise across ESG and sustainability consulting, carbon, energy engineering, commissioning, and project delivery. From the enterprise to asset level, we provide clients with strategy, management, and technical support to translate bold commitments into impact. Stok is a Certified B Corp and ILFI Just organization, and has been recognized as a Top Impact Company and Best Workplace. Our global team delivers on client ambitions across programs and projects worldwide.

Stok supports many large-scale clients, providing embedded team members to work as an extension of our clients to support the establishment, long-term strategic planning, and day-to-day implementation of their real estate engineering and/or sustainability programs. Each program is unique; with different team dynamics, levels of resourcing, focus areas, levels of development, breadth, and different sets of challenges. We've been supporting these clients as trusted advisors and embedded owner representatives for many years and are excited to continue to grow these relationships. This role would be for one of Stok's key clients, functioning as their Global Engineering and Sustainability Program lead with the expectation that the candidate would be dedicated for 75 – 90% of their time to this client. The ideal candidate should be passionate about moving the built environment into the future and have a knack for empowering engineering and sustainability initiatives within corporate environments.

At Stok, We Seek Culture Add, Not Culture Fit. Our values guide every decision we make and action we take on behalf of our partners and clients. They are:

1. Stok joy
2. Own it
3. Care deeply
4. Demand better

Our Values-Aligned Team Members:

• Craft innovative ideas and have a say in how the firm operates. We have built self-management and distributive governance into our organizational structure to enable every team member to share input on policies and procedures.
• Strive for a better way to do business and create a positive impact through their work. Stok believes in business as a force for good and is a certified B Corp, demonstrating our commitment to maximizing social and environmental impacts, in addition to profit.
• Give back in a meaningful way. We donate 3% of profits to causes we believe in through a combination of pro-bono services and donations.
• Advocate for a level playing field. Stok has intentionally baked social justice into our operations, which we hold ourselves accountable to through our International Living Future Institute JUST Label.
• Participate in a transparent, objective, merit-based compensation and profit distribution processes and policies.

Our purpose is to boldly catalyze an environmentally restorative and socially equitable world, and Stok needs you to fulfill it!

Responsibilities:

• Embedded Role: As embedded team member within our client's real estate organization you will act on their behalf to implement, manage and progress their program and provide regular updates to the client point of contact.
• Annual strategic planning support: It is common for this role to support our clients in their development of annual and 3-year planning for their respective programs. This is big picture thinking at its best! You'll need to be able to take all of your technical expertise and client-specific knowledge to inform the development of broader programmatic goals. Examples include developing roadmaps for AI adoption, decarbonization, site / portfolio resilience, an electric vehicle charging program, and/or guideline development.
• Process development & improvement: As our client's program-level support, you'll often be asked to help inform their individual project teams of what program requirements need to be met at the project level. As you gain familiarity with a multitude of ongoing capital improvement projects, you'll inevitably begin to find areas for programmatic process improvement. You'll also likely support our client in developing new / updated global design & construction guidelines. Prior experience doing so is greatly valued!