**Context**

gaia.eco is a SaaS product which revolutionises biodiversity data collection, analytics and reporting. gaia.eco works across entire tree of life and it's global. Imagine Google Maps for nature - that's gaia.eco.

Illuminum
(the company behind gaia.eco) is a
B2B2C company. We empower professionals and researchers in conservation, ecology, landscape architecture, and early stage urban planning.

Illuminum strives to operate at near-zero emissions. At Illuminum, we believe sustainability analytics should be democritised, cheap, and data-scientific.

**The purpose of gaia.eco**

We're on a mission to integrate all types of biodiversity data seamlessly - like windy.com does with weather and climate.

The purpose with unification of various data sources is to train our own Nature AI, a model to combat famine, extinction, detrimental impacts of climate change on ecosystem services, accelerate data-driven conservation, and power up corporate compliance.

gaia.eco shall

- make the user marvel at nature’s beauty
- empower the user to analyse and report with near zero efford

Hence, the hard work is us. We must prodce high quality intelligence, design and workflows.

**Your Role**

This is a full-time+ Californian style remote business development role specializing on ecology, nature inventory and landscape architecture.

You will

- pitch gaia.eco to everyone you meet
- take an endless amount of sales and demo meetings
- develop enterprise contracts with municipalities, regions and national governments
- represent Illuminum on conferences

We're an early stage startup with a mature technology. Your mindset is ready to sacrifice your best years

- for preserving nature in a decade to come
- practice your endurance - mental and physical
- increase your self-discipline
- network with whomever you need to get your sales done
- inspire, recruit, and manage labour for your agenda
- create the market of automated biodiversity analytics

Your friends would describe you as

- charismatic entertainer -- you have to be magnetic storyteller
- a passionate teacher -- you will have to explain and delegate the problems to others
- a quick study -- we need to float on the AI wave fast for inbound, outbound and closing
- focused on the big prize -- the large partnerships and deals are yours to make
- a risk taker who can survive the next year without a salary
- an unstoppable spirit
- a decent athlete
- fluent in English and Swedish, Danish, Finnish or Norwegian

I offer you:

- 25% kick-back from closed sales
- an ever-growing network
- a tribal community
- the possibilty to make a restorative impact on ecosystems
- shaping Nature AI development
- to become a co-founder of Illuminum

Before an interview, analyse landing page https://gaia.eco

You will pitch me gaia.eco, both software and services around it, as if I was your end client.

David Jirout

Founder @ Illuminum

Creator of gaia.eco