Summary
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| Focus |
Client origination · key relationship ownership · final sign-off on client deliverables · industry representation and fundraising support |
| Location |
Primarily remote · occasional meetings in Paris, Luxembourg, Amsterdam and elsewhere in Europe |
| Compensation |
Flexible revenue sharing on projects you originate and lead, with equity upside as contribution scales |
| Experience |
Senior experience in private equity, sustainability or a closely related field · an active network among GPs, asset managers or family offices |
| Language |
Fluent professional English · French, German, Spanish, Italian or another European language is an asset |
| Start |
Oct-Nov 2026 |
Who we are
Axion Lab is an AI-native sustainability services firm for GPs and their portfolio companies. We are building a new kind of product and service for alternative asset managers – turning high-end sustainability expert work into a continuously available, software-native experience an investment team can actually use.
The focus is the cross-portfolio sustainability value-creation assessment and roadmap steering through the holding period. We also deliver sustainability reviews, due diligence, carbon footprints and decarbonisation reports.
Our platform combines AI with expert judgement. AI handles the more deterministic parts: data extraction, analysis, modelling, benchmarking and calculations. Sustainability experts focus on the judgement-heavy parts: selecting assumptions and methodologies, interpreting edge cases, challenging conclusions and validating outputs.
The role
- Win clients and build the pipeline. Sell to funds in your network and lead each deal from first contact through NDA, scoping and trial kick-off, converting successful trials into design-partner collaborations. Act as account executive on the deals you win: pricing, packaging and commercial terms, agreed with the founders.
- Own key relationships and sign off deliverables. Own the client relationship end-to-end and hold final sign-off on every deliverable. Challenge each one from the client's perspective: is it decision-ready? Would a fund act on it?
- Represent Axion Lab externally. Be visible and credible at industry events and in the investor and operator communities where our buyers sit, and support fundraising through your angel and family-office network.
- Feed what you learn back into the product. Bring structured market signal from your conversations: objections, willingness to pay, competing alternatives, forcing events. Help turn what clients actually buy into repeatable offers, pricing and packaging.
What we are looking for
- 15+ years of experience in private equity, sustainability, strategy consulting or a closely related field, for example, a PE/VC investment or portfolio role, sustainability leadership, or partner-level advisory work with proven network among GPs and LPs, and evidence you can convert relationships into engagements
- An owner's mindset: you back your ability to build the pipeline, and you want equity in what you build
- Early-stage is your element: where one person sees the risk of no process, shifting requirements and constant change, you see the beauty of building your own standards
- Evidence of drive: you have built something from an early stage, whether a client book, a practice, a fund or a company, and you want to do it again with more leverage behind you
- A low-ego collaborator: you work well with very different profiles, from engineers and analysts to founders and clients, and you raise the bar for the people around you
Why join us
- Hold your own client relationships and sign off what clients receive, with the accountability that implies
- Sell a concrete offer from day one: a free trial that is specific, bounded and easy for a fund to say yes to, not a vague advisory proposition