Climate & Sustainability Executive Roles — Clean Energy, Carbon, ClimateTech
More than 110 executive roles classified in Climate & Sustainability, with 6 new this week. Operating, commercial, and technical leadership at clean-energy, carbon-management, and sustainability-led companies.
Tier breakdown
1
Founder9
C-Suite66
VP6
Sr Director28
DirectorWhat this category covers
Climate & Sustainability covers executive roles at clean-energy companies, carbon-management firms, climate-software platforms, and sustainability-led firms across industries. The flagship spans pure-play ClimateTech plus sustainability functions inside larger companies.
Across the 110 active roles in this category, the largest tier is VP. The classifier weighs company size, scope, and reporting line — not just the title prefix — so the tier mix reflects real responsibility, not vanity titles.
Sample Jobs (10 of 110)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Head of FP&A & Controlling Thermondo The role involves financial planning and analysis, controlling, leading a team, working with sales and operations, and engaging with investors. It focuses on contributing to climate neutrality. VP | Berlin, Germany Hybrid |
| Vice President, Advocacy Clean Grid Alliance Lead the state policy arm of Clean Grid Alliance, overseeing policy work at state, regional, and local levels, and growing the organization's capabilities and membership. VP | Remote Remote |
| Head of Sales CarbonChain Lead and scale the commercial engine, set sales strategy, and develop a team at CarbonChain. VP | London Unknown |
| Head of Engineering CarbonChain Lead the engineering team at CarbonChain, set technical direction, and drive AI adoption. Requires extensive experience in software engineering and leadership. VP | London Hybrid |
| Director of Computer Vision Glacier Lead Glacier's Computer Vision organization, own the vision and execution of the CV roadmap, and lead the international CV engineering team. Director | San Francisco, CA Hybrid |
| Director, Revenue Operations Arcadia Lead revenue operations, manage a global team, work with sales and finance, and oversee CRM management. Director | Remote Remote |
| President and Chief Executive Officer Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) Lead and direct the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC), ensuring a positive, team-based, goal-oriented culture. Responsible for the overall successful operation and fiscal integrity of IREC. C-Suite | Remote Remote |
| Head of People Vaulted Vaulted is hiring a strategic, business-minded people leader to build and lead its people function as the company scales from Series A through Series B and beyond. The role involves shaping culture and talent strategy, serving as a trusted advisor to the CEO, and building a people function spanning the full employee lifecycle. VP | Houston Hybrid |
| Head of Brand Strategy & Activation Thermondo Lead brand strategy and activation for Thermondo, focusing on clean-tech initiatives, strategic brand management, and team leadership. VP | Berlin, Germany Hybrid |
| Head of Legal Vaulted The Head of Legal will own the legal workstream for Vaulted’s partnerships, leading a legal team, and managing partnership transactions. Responsibilities include deal structuring, risk allocation, and team leadership. VP | Houston, TX Hybrid |
How classification gets to this category
Climate & Sustainability classification follows the same multi-stage pipeline as every other category, with category-specific signal at three stages:
- Title recognition. Direct title hits resolve fast — common variants are recognized immediately, including the senior, VP, and Director-tier flavors.
- Compensation threshold. An exec-tier base-comp floor filters out individual-contributor roles that share the title language. Roles below the floor in unambiguous category titles are flagged for manual review rather than auto-classified.
- JD signals for ambiguous cases. GPT reads the JD for ClimateTech-product scope, regulatory-engagement signals, and pure-play-vs-corporate-sustainability semantics. See the AI Classification page for the full signal hierarchy.
Negative filters explicitly block adjacent IC and analyst roles whose titles can resemble executive ones. The result: Climate & Sustainability as a category in your inbox is the executive cut, not the entry-level cut.
How matching works for your search
Matching on Climate & Sustainability is conjunctive. Every dimension you add narrows the result set rather than expanding it.
Example: select Climate & Sustainability + CTO/Technology Leadership and you see CTOs across clean-energy and ClimateTech companies — your inbox shows the intersection, not the union. You won't see roles that match only one of the filters and not the other.
Tier filtering layers on top. If you only want VP-tier and above in this category, the seniority-tier filter does that cleanly. Restrict further to C-suite only to see the most senior seats, or open it up to Director-tier to widen the funnel during early-stage exploration.
Remote mix