Kai Vogel

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Co-founder & CTO at Orchard Works · Climate analytics

Orchard Works
Vienna, Austria · CET (UTC+1)
14+ years experience
University of Copenhagen
English, German
Hiring
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Overview

Founder of Orchard Works (climate analytics). 21 years of building before that. Previously built and sold a small climate analytics company. Jazz piano, badly.

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Skills
climate techenterprise salespaymentsdatacarbon accounting
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Orchard Works is hiring 4 account executives in Vienna

Role
Account executive
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$158k-$221k + equity
Team
Founding team, 7 people
Start
As soon as possible
Must have
A record of closing B2B deals Experience selling to the buyers we sell to Clear written communication
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp €92k-€148k. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Vienna, Austria · remote OKclimate techcarbon accountingdata
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Experience

  1. Co-founder & CTO
    Nov 2021 - Present
    Orchard Works · 4 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Vienna, Austria
    • Grew the team to 13 people across 5 countries.
    • Previously built and sold a small climate analytics company.
    • Took Orchard Works from zero to $5 million ARR.
  2. Senior Product Manager
    Feb 2020 - Nov 2021
    Cabify · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Vienna, Austria
    • Killed 8 features nobody used and shipped the 2 that customers asked for.
  3. Group Product Manager
    Jan 2018 - Feb 2020
    Revolut · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Vienna, Austria
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new payments customers from 9 days to 4.
  4. Principal Product Manager
    May 2014 - Jan 2018
    Farfetch · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Vienna, Austria
    • Led or co-led 10 investments, 7 of them now at Series B or later.
  5. Product Manager
    Mar 2013 - May 2014
    Accenture · 1 yr 2 mo · Contract · Vienna, Austria
    • Ran 88 customer interviews before writing the first spec.

Projects

Write-up: climate analytics in practice
2023

A long-form guide to climate analytics for people starting out.

Conference talk: lessons from company
2023

What went wrong and what worked while scaling climate analytics.

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Education

  1. University of Copenhagen
    MSc, Computer Science
    2005 - 2007
  2. University of Amsterdam
    BSc, Computer Science
    2001 - 2004

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