United States
Clean tech careers, mapped for US employers
The twelve pathways were built in Canada, but the roles are not Canadian — ESG reporting, carbon accounting and energy transition work look much the same on either side of the border. What differs is which one your city is hiring for.
- San Francisco
- New York
- Seattle
- Austin
- Los Angeles
- Boston
- Houston
- Washington DC
Where we work
What we see in each market
Same twelve pathways everywhere. Which one is worth starting with depends on who is hiring near you.
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San Francisco CA
Climate tech funding clusters here, which means a lot of early-stage companies needing one person who can do several jobs at once. Generalists with one genuinely technical skill do well.
- Data Analyst
- Product Operations
- AI Project Coordinator
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New York NY
Financial services drive the ESG work — disclosure, ratings, and the reporting that sits underneath both. Precision matters more than breadth.
- ESG Analyst
- Carbon Accounting
- Data Analyst
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Seattle WA
Large cloud and logistics employers with published emissions targets, which turns into internal roles measuring progress against them rather than consulting from outside.
- Carbon Accounting
- Data Analyst
- Supply Chain Sustainability
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Austin TX
Tech relocation plus a grid under visible strain. Energy questions and software questions land in the same meeting here more often than they do most places.
- Digital Transformation
- Data Analyst
- Green Building
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Los Angeles CA
Freight, ports and a hard transport decarbonisation timeline. Supply chain work here usually has a regulatory deadline attached to it, which concentrates the hiring.
- Supply Chain Sustainability
- Sustainability Coordinator
- Carbon Accounting
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Boston MA
Universities, biotech and a mature climate research base. Employers here tend to want the evidence behind a claim before the claim.
- ESG Analyst
- Data Analyst
- Carbon Accounting
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Houston TX
The largest concentration of energy expertise in North America, now pointed at hydrogen, carbon capture and grid work. Deep technical context is an advantage, not a barrier.
- Carbon Accounting
- Green Building
- ESG Analyst
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Washington DC
Policy, federal programmes and the consultancies serving them. Understanding a framework matters as much as being able to measure against it.
- ESG Analyst
- Sustainability Coordinator
- Digital Transformation
These are our observations from mapping the pathways, not published statistics. Salary bands on the pathway cards are Canadian market figures — US ranges generally run higher, and we will say so rather than quietly reprice them.
United States
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Tell us the city and the kind of work you want. We will tell you which of the twelve pathways has the most movement near you, and what it would realistically take.
- Courses are online and self-paced, so time zone is irrelevant
- Every pathway maps to skills, not to a job title
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