Growing Climate Tech Firms Need Engineers — But Also Sales and HR Pros
Thousands of job listings from the site Climatebase show strong demand for non-technical, general business skills in areas like operations and marketing.
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Since the start of 2023, more than 700 tech companies around the world have laid off a total of almost 200,000 employees. Tech employment in the US, however, was as of late March still about 7% above its level before the pandemic. And for tech workers who want to put their skills to use outside their traditional fields, climate companies are hiring across the board.
Global hiring and networking site Climatebase has posted more than 46,000 jobs from over 1,500 organizations (both for- and not-for-profit) over the past two years. Certainly, highly technical jobs related to the science of climate mitigation and adaptation are in high demand. But so too are roles familiar from any global business. It is mostly these roles that climate tech firms seek to fill, according to data that Climatebase shared with Bloomberg Green.