VP, Hydrometallurgy

Dioxycle is pioneering breakthrough carbon utilization technologies that convert industrial emissions into sustainable chemicals with unprecedented energy and cost efficiency. By displacing fossil fuels for the production of key chemicals, Dioxycle has the potential to ultimately reduce over 800 million tons of CO2 per year, representing over 1% of the world's emissions. 
 
At Dioxycle, we believe that profitability is essential to trigger adoption of decarbonization technologies at the scale and speed required to reach our net-zero goals. With this in mind, our team is innovating across chemical, mechanical and system engineering to turn carbon transformation into an economically feasible, industrial reality. Having completed our medium-scale Proof-of-Concept carbon monoxide electrolyzer, we are now working towards a first-of-its-kind large-scale industrial prototype and are assembling key partnerships for future commercial roll-out.

We are supported by world-class funders including Lowercarbon Capital, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Gigascale Capital and operate from two R&D centers in Europe and California. 

Dioxycle is developing next-generation electrified chemical manufacturing technologies that produce cheaper, cleaner and sovereign critical chemicals, key to mining, energy infrastructure, pharmaceuticals, agriculture and consumer goods. Our technology uses electricity and widely available feedstocks (CO, CO2 emissions, salt streams) rather than fossil or imported resources, de-linking the production of critical chemicals from supply chains exposed to chokepoints, export bans, and price volatility. We focus on chemicals where our direct electrified pathway simplifies complex multi-step fossil-fuel-based processes into fewer simpler steps; delivering a process that is both cleaner and cheaper. Having validated the superiority of our technology at our industrial module scale, we are now preparing for commercial deployment.

 

We are supported by world-class funders including Bill-Gates-founded Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital and Gigascale Capital and have raised $50M to date. We operate from two centers in Paris and California (so whether you are passionate about outdoors or good food/art scenes, we have a location for you to join!)

 

Dioxycle is seeking an expert VP, Hydrometallurgy to join our team at a pivotal phase as we continue to develop different product lines of our platform electrolyzer and transition from R&D to industrial piloting and early commercial deployment.  

We are looking for an industry expert with a wealth of knowledge and experience in metallurgical processes, such as ore refining/processing (lithium, nickel, bauxite) with experience extracting metal oxides from mined rock. You will work in close partnership with our process development, strategy and business teams, where your expertise will accelerate development of our technology and contribute to perfecting of our go-to-market strategy. Your responsibilities will center around:

- Contribute your expertise through discussions with engineering teams and through developing novel process flowsheets and generally contributing actively to novel process design and decisions

- Represent Dioxycle as a technical expert at strategic business/partnership meetings and industry events such as conferences

- Translate research-stage thinking into industrially robust process designs

- Bring an industrial/operations mindset to challenge and stress-test process choices against real plant constraints

 

We seek a VP, Hydrometallurgy who is dedicated to advancing our mission and possesses the skills outlined below. We are ideally seeking a candidate who is based in, or open to relocating to, Paris, France and to working full time, however we are also open to considering candidates willing to work part-time and/or located in the United States.