CCO/COO Cofounder at Renée Materials Startup

🌱📦Company: What we do

Our vision at Renée is a world without wasted materials! Renée Materials is a circular marketplace where companies offer their offcuts, surplus stock, and leftovers for reuse by creatives and makers, reducing waste and emissions at scale. It's essentially like 'Too-Good-To-Go' but for materials.

We are committed to helping the planet close the resource loop - our current target audiences are just the start.

🌍💰 Opportunity: Why we do what we do
Our society is wasteful. And this waste is a problem. Not only does it cause significant environmental problems, it’s costly too. Around 5% of companies annual turnover is lost on waste. And it’s not black bins we are talking about, it’s beautiful high-quality materials that currently end up in landfills. Legislation and reputational risk requires businesses to change - now.

We’ve been working to fix this problem for two years. We’ve saved almost 12 tonnes of material and discovered an incredible opportunity. Offering business’ leftovers to creatives and makers (as our initial target buyers, expanding to a B2B model in the future). They not only get materials that are free from social and environmental exploitation, they also get it at half the price they would pay for it anywhere else. A clear win-win-win, because Renee earns a big part of the sales price!

📈🎨Where we are at

We have bootstrapped our way to a successful web MVP, and now we’re going to get investment and build an app. We’ve built a network of 40 companies profiting from our service, with 20,000 creatives in our network. Our online shop is operating in the whole UK alongside two physical Hubs in London. We saved almost 12t of materials from waste, a carbon saving of 97,430kgCO2e - that’s equivalent to the annual emissions of about 9 Brits. So let’s put it that way: the whole Renée Team + you is already net-negative ;).

👤You: What we need

We’re looking for someone to join our leadership team as a CCO or COO. We’re currently on a VC programme - Zinc - and are about to pitch for the first round of investment. We need someone now and for the long term as we grow our 2-year old startup to global impact. We’ll bring you on board our 2.2k/month stipend while we’re at Zinc and give you a significant share of equity in the company. See below for more detail on who we’re looking for and what we can offer.

🔎 What we are looking for: (in order, most important first)

• Experience required if you see yourself as our CCO: Experience developing and executing commercial strategy for two sided marketplaces or climate impact, driving revenue growth, MVP to product-market-fit, and/or scaled early-stage ventures.
• Experience required if you see yourself as our COO: Experience in managing day-to-day operations, process improvement, and sales. Proven experience of building scalable data platforms is an advantage.

🚀 What we offer:

• You’re joining a winning team.

• Equity + £2.2k monthly stipend until we go before the Investment Committee in November. 
• The opportunity to work with a committed, passionate, capable leader CEO - Domain expert in Design, Systems and Futures, Partnerships
• ZINC VC Network and support- Free executive coaching, access to a network of investors, fellows (seasoned experts from the likes of Meta, Google, Monzo etc), business support from a designated venture partner.
• Access to a central London office, with other impact-driven startups.
• Office facilities: Gym, bike storage, changing facilities, roof terrace, networking events and a healthy supply of tea/coffee

💔Deal breakers:

• This is a full-time commitment, the sooner you can start, the better. Please don’t apply unless you can commit full time.
• To build a startup requires a healthy amount of optimism and hard work. If that doesn’t sound like you, then it’s a no go sadly.
• You must have a right to work in the UK. If you need a sponsored visa, ZINC does not have the capacity for this. 

🌎 Location:

Hybrid company on the Zinc Venture Builder. Meeting 2-3 days/week in person at the London Euston Office.