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Vaulted Deep
Houston, Texas, United States
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Vaulted is a waste management company that removes carbon. We take organic waste that can pollute our environment above ground and safely inject it ultra deep underground—permanently removing carbon from the atmosphere while protecting local land, air, and water. Vaulted is based in Houston, San Francisco, and Kansas.
With a growing team of 70+ people across the country, Vaulted signed the second largest carbon removal offtake ever with Microsoft in July 2025 and is rapidly expanding to new sites.
Vaulted's proprietary technology builds on decades of expertise to deliver safe, durable carbon and waste management solutions now, at scale.
Vaulted Deep develops, constructs, owns, and operates deep well injection facilities that permanently remove carbon from the atmosphere by injecting organic waste — manure, treated sewage, paper sludge, and agricultural byproducts — below confining geology. The Director of Commercial owns the revenue-generating and site-securing agreements that make a project viable: waste-supply and water-supply contracts, landowner and pore-space agreements, royalties, and related long-term arrangements.
The role negotiates definitive infrastructure agreements end to end and translates commercial terms into project value.
This is a senior contract-negotiation role, not a procurement function. The Director of Commercial is accountable for the terms that determine project revenue and cost — negotiated from first term sheet to signed definitive agreement, not assembled from standard templates.
Why This Role Matters
Commercial terms set the ceiling on project value. Waste-supply price, water cost, landowner economics, and contract structure determine whether a site clears its return threshold. This role negotiates those terms to a defensible position across a growing, multi-project pipeline: 10+ opportunities in origination, 3 in active development, targeting three-plus projects under construction within two years.
Definitive long-term agreements are the deliverable that unlocks Final Investment Decision.
Reports directly to the EVP. May manage one direct report, including a Landman, scaling with the portfolio. Works closely with Project Developers to develop commercial term sheets, with Finance on project economics, and with Legal on definitive-agreement drafting. Presents commercial readiness and key terms at the Final Investment Decision gate.
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