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Departmental Overview
UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business offers a unique opportunity to champion new ideas, collaborate across boundaries, and continually learn in a workplace committed to increasing diversity and creating a welcoming environment for all. Our distinctive culture is captured within our four Defining Leadership Principles: Question the Status Quo, Confidence Without Attitude, Students Always, and Beyond Yourself. These principles distinguish Berkeley Haas as a unique environment conducive to teamwork, collaboration, and career growth.

For more information about the Haas School of Business visit: https://haas.berkeley.edu/about/

The Strauch Cleantech to Market (C2M) program is one of the nation's first climate tech accelerators and a program in the Energy Institute at Berkeley Haas. C2M forms interdisciplinary teams, each comprising four to six UC Berkeley graduate students, who analyze promising climate tech, green chemistry, and water-related innovations from entrepreneurs across the country, assess potentially relevant markets, and recommend specific commercialization pathways. Since its founding in 2008, C2M teams have worked with entrepreneurs on more than 125 early-stage technologies, of which more than half have become start-ups who have gone on to raise more than $1.3 billion.

Position Summary
The Associate Director for the Strauch Cleantech to Market (C2M) program collaborates closely with the C2M Director to manage and evolve one of the nation's leading climate tech accelerators and experiential graduate-level courses. The role includes co-leading program strategy and operations, supporting curriculum development and delivery, engaging with entrepreneurs and industry partners, contributing to fundraising and partnership development, and expanding C2M's network of mentors, coaches, and advisors. Over time, the role is expected to take on increasing responsibility in program leadership and continuity planning.

Application Review Date

The First Review Date for this job is May 22, 2026. For full consideration, please apply on or before the first review date.

Responsibilities

Startup/Technology Selection:

• Work with representatives from the innovation ecosystem described in the "C2M Annual Cycle" above to identify, solicit, screen, and select promising climate tech startups whom C2M's student teams will work with in the fall semester.
• Every year, 60-90 targeted applicants are analyzed and vetted through a multi-stage process to identify semi-finalists and ~10 finalists, leading to up to eight selected technologies.
  

Fall Course:

• Work closely with and alongside C2M lecturers Brian Steel and Alex Luce who co-teach C2M's fall semester course to co-develop and deliver the fall semester course (weekly 3-hour session plus additional engagement time).
• Contribute to lecture delivery, guest speaker selection, and overall course design. at the Haas School of Business to:
  • Arrange relevant guest speakers and panelists and coordinate a lunch series for students to continue discussions with guest speakers after class.
  • Meet regularly with entrepreneurs and student teams, and coach the teams on their research, analyses, and team dynamics.
  • Recommend relevant members of the business community for informational interviews by teams.
  • Recommend relevant written sources for identified teams.
  • Working with Energy Institute Operations Manager, organize the annual C2M summit event at which student teams present their findings and recommendations to a large public audience.
  • Coach student student teams as they work with lecturers to: identify applications, first markets, stakeholders, and challenges.
  • Perform techno-economic analyses.
  • Search for and assess relevant market data.
  • Contact potential licensees for feedback and input.
  • Work with founders to determine whether further technical developments would improve commercial prospects.
  • Produce roadmaps and discuss findings with their companies.
  • Develop market studies and determine customer requirements.
  • Develop a business plan.
  • Prepare for annual summit presentations.
  • Read and comment on final reports prepared by student teams.
    

Student Recruitment & Team Formation: