Director of Project Development

Graphyte is a climate tech company on a mission to deliver the world's lowest-cost, highest-durability carbon removal. We compress and bury agricultural and timber biomass, locking away carbon that would otherwise return to the atmosphere, and sell the resulting carbon credits to buyers who need permanent, verifiable removal. We are a small team operating our first site and building the pipeline to scale to many more. The science is proven. We are storing biomass and selling credits. The challenge now is execution.

Graphyte's projects don't start in a conference room. They start in a county, with biomass supply to map, landowners to earn the trust of, permits to secure, and a community that deserves straight answers about what we're building and why it's good for them.

As Director of Project Development, you own that work. You'll identify and evaluate new project opportunities, secure land, build community and stakeholder support, drive permitting strategy, and structure the local agreements (land, biomass feedstock supply, logistics) that turn a promising region into a construction-ready, financeable project. You'll work alongside a fellow Director of Project Development, dividing a growing portfolio between you, and coordinating daily with our engineering, finance, and operations teams to keep every project moving on its critical path.

This is a senior individual contributor role reporting to our Chief Commercial Officer. You'll carry real ownership from day one: named sites with financing timelines attached, and new regions where you are the first Graphyte person anyone has met.

Site origination & screening. Find and evaluate new project regions against techno-economic criteria you'll help build: biomass supply, land, logistics, permitting complexity, community fit, and cost-per-ton impact.

Land acquisition. Negotiate purchases, leases, options, and easements directly with landowners across active and prospective regions.

Community & stakeholder engagement. Be Graphyte's face in the counties where we build. Earn and keep the local trust that our multi-site strategy depends on.