Associate Director, Engineering & Sustainability Program Lead

Associate Director, Engineering & Sustainability Program Lead

Compensation Range: $150,000-$200,000 based on experience.

Location:

This role’s location is in San Francisco/ Bay Area (hybrid), 3-4 times a month.

Stok has a hybrid workforce across North America and globally. Although we have offices in San Francisco, San Diego, Denver and some co‑working locations across the continent, we encourage team members to pursue a work‑from‑home, hybrid or in‑person setup that works best for them. This position requires three days on site at a client location in the Bay Area.

Job Description

General Intro:

Stok leads organizations to decarbonize now. We integrate expertise across ESG and sustainability consulting, carbon, energy engineering, commissioning, and project delivery. From the enterprise to asset level, we provide clients with strategy, management, and technical support to translate bold commitments into impact. Our global team delivers on client ambitions across programs and projects worldwide. In our own operations, Stok uses third‑party frameworks such as B Corp, the International Living Future Institute (ILFI) Just Label, and the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) to guide, verify, and share our progress toward our commitment to a radically better world for all.

Stok supports many large‑scale clients, providing embedded team members to work as an extension of our clients to support the establishment, long‑term strategic planning, and day‑to‑day implementation of their real estate engineering and/or sustainability programs. Each program is unique; with different team dynamics, levels of resourcing, focus areas, levels of development, breadth, and different sets of challenges. We’ve been supporting these clients as trusted advisors and embedded owner representatives for many years and are excited to continue to grow these relationships.

This role would be for one of Stok’s key clients, functioning as their Global Engineering and Sustainability Program lead with the expectation that the candidate would be dedicated for 75 – 90% of their time to this client. The ideal candidate should be passionate about moving the built environment into the future and have a knack for empowering engineering and sustainability initiatives within corporate environments.

At Stok, We Seek Culture Add, Not Culture Fit.

At Stok, our values guide every decision we make and action we take on behalf of our partners and clients. They are:

• Own it

• Demand better

Our Values‑Aligned Team Members:

• Craft innovative ideas and have a say in how the firm operates. We have built self‑management and distributive governance into our organizational structure to enable every team member to share input on policies and procedures.

• Strive for a better way to do business and create a positive impact through their work. Stok believes in business as a force for good and is a certified B Corp, demonstrating our commitment to maximizing social and environmental impacts, in addition to profit.

• Give back in a meaningful way. We donate 3% of profits to causes we believe in through a combination of pro‑bono services and donations.

• Advocate for a level playing field. Stok has intentionally baked social justice into our operations, which we hold ourselves accountable to through our International Living Future Institute JUST Label.

• Participate in a transparent, objective, merit‑based compensation and profit distribution processes and policies.

Our purpose is to boldly catalyze an environmentally restorative and socially equitable world, and Stok needs you to fulfill it!

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Embedded Role
- As embedded team member within our client’s real estate organization you will act on their behalf to implement, manage and progress their program and provide regular updates to the client point of contact.

• Annual strategic planning support
- It is common for this role to support our clients in their development of annual and 3‑year planning for their respective programs. This is big picture thinking at its best! You’ll need to be able to take all of your technical expertise and client‑specific knowledge to inform the development of broader…