Senior Sustainability Specialist @ Fastly

Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including Vimeo, Pinterest, The New York Times, and GitHub.

We’re building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.

Fastly is seeking a Senior Sustainability Specialist to drive us forward on our journey to a more sustainable business and future. You will work with our suppliers to ensure that Fastly minimizes our production of greenhouse gasses and our consumption of important resources such as water. You will work with our customers on their sustainability programs, ensuring that Fastly is an able and progressive partner in each of their sustainability journeys. Last, you will champion sustainability within the company and on behalf of our customers.

What You’ll Do:

Lead engagement with internal and external partners to collect, track, verify and report on power consumption, renewable energy, and GHG as it pertains to Fastly’s data centers
Create and maintain a customer sustainability dashboard, in partnership with Product Management
Work with customers and account teams to help answer customer queries on sustainability and understand and support customer’s sustainability strategies
Create and manage sustainability questionnaires for data center and hardware sourcing based on industry standards
Develop a strategy to track and report on Fastly’s GHG production, resource use and waste across the company, beyond our datacenter operations
Develop and execute a plan to offset current consumption, and develop a long term path to zero waste and carbon neutrality
Research and leverage leading technologies for sustainability initiatives

What We’re Looking For:

5 - 7 years of direct experience in managing sustainability projects, renewable energy adoption programs, customer engagement, and operational reporting with an emphasis on data centers
Basic knowledge of data center hardware, energy consumption, and operations as well as experience with vendor management regarding R2 and ISO 14001 certifications
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, challenging environment, and must be highly capable of prioritizing multiple projects in the context of larger cross-functional initiatives
Detailed, organized, have excellent verbal and written communication skills, and possess strong organizational and analytical skills

We’ll be super impressed if you have experience in any of these:

Advanced degree in Environmental Science, Management or similar
Intermediate knowledge of financial reporting and modeling is valued

Work Hours:

This position will require you to be available during core business hours.

Work Locations & Travel Requirements:

This position is open to the following preferred office locations:

London, UK

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.

Benefits:

We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings?

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to meet your needs. Our offerings may vary depending on the country where you work and are subject to change.

Why Fastly?

We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customers have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives. Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.
We love distributed teams. Fastly’s home-base is in San Francisco, but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. As a new hire, you will be able to attend our IN-PERSON new hire orientation in our San Francisco office! It is an exciting week-long experience that we offer to new employees to build connections with colleagues across Fastly, participate in hands-on learning opportunities, and immerse yourself in our culture firsthand.
We value diversity. Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful -- every day.
We are passionate. Fastly is chock full of passionate people and we’re not ‘one size fits all’. Fastly employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents (of humans and animals), makeup geeks, coffee connoisseurs, and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.

We’re always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a fit please apply! A fully completed application and resume or CV are required when applying.

Fastly is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity and to providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Our employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, family or parental status, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and federal or state disability laws, Fastly will provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact your Recruiter, or the Fastly Employee Relations team at [email protected] or 501-287-4901.

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