Energy & Utilities Executive Roles — oil, gas, power, renewables
More than 5,000 executive sources scanned daily — every senior role across oil and gas majors, integrated utilities, IPPs, renewables developers, and grid-edge platforms.
Tier breakdown
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Founder15
C-Suite122
VP8
Sr Director40
DirectorWhat this category covers
The Energy & Utilities industry spans the full energy sector: upstream, midstream, and downstream oil and gas; integrated investor-owned utilities (IOUs); independent power producers (IPPs); transmission and distribution operators; renewables developers (solar, wind, storage); and grid-edge / energy-software platforms.
Energy is heavily onsite. Executive remote policy in this industry skews ~65% onsite, 25% hybrid, 10% remote — much closer to industrial-manufacturing than technology. Plant operations, field operations, and regulated-utility headquarters anchor most senior roles to a specific location. The classifier surfaces remote-friendly seats explicitly so candidates can filter accurately.
Functions over-represented in Energy & Utilities: COO/Operations (plant and field ops), CTO/Engineering (engineering at IPPs, grid software at utilities, AI/ML at renewables), and CFO/Finance (regulated utility capital structure, project finance at renewables developers). Heavy in CXO and VP-tier seats; thinner at Director-tier than tech-heavy industries.
Sample Jobs (10 of 185)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Director, Regulatory Mainspring Energy Lead the Company's strategy on environmental, energy, and regulatory matters. Drive regulatory strategy, policy engagement, and compliance initiatives. VP | Remote Remote |
| Director of Business Development ... growing engineering organization The role involves developing new business, growing client relationships, and expanding engineering services in the utility and power infrastructure market. Director | Decatur, Alabama Remote |
| Portfolio Leader - North Africa & Belgium GE Vernova The Portfolio Leader is responsible for leading a portfolio of projects in North Africa and Belgium, ensuring safety, quality, delivery, compliance, customer satisfaction, and financial targets are met. VP | Algiers, DZ; Madrid, ES; Milan, IT Unknown |
| Director, Microgrid & Distributed Energy Strategy Crusoe Lead the development of distributed energy and microgrid projects, manage regulatory compliance, and drive financial viability at hyperscale. Director | Denver, CO - US; Dallas, TX - US Onsite |
| Vice President, Financial Planning & Analysis Mainspring Energy The Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis leads Mainspring Energy's financial planning, forecasting, and strategic financial analysis, serving as a trusted advisor to the CFO and executive leadership team. VP | Menlo Park, CA Hybrid |
| European Works Council & Labour Relations Transformation Leader GE Vernova GE Vernova is seeking an experienced Labour Relations leader to manage project deployment and transformational change, including leadership of the European Works Council across Europe. VP | Other France FR Remote |
| Head of Platform & Agentic Enablement Tibber Lead and grow a team to accelerate the energy transition by empowering engineering teams to ship smart software faster. Manage platform roadmap and reliability, scale agentic development, and collaborate cross-functionally. VP | Stockholm, Berlin Hybrid |
| Sales Director – EMEA & APAC Cintoo Lead regional revenue growth, manage a distributed team, and execute go-to-market strategies for Cintoo's SaaS platform. Director | BIOT, Alpes Maritimes, France Hybrid |
| Enterprise Risk Management Leader GE Vernova The Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Leader will drive the transformation of the ERM function across GE Vernova, working with executive leadership to enhance the ERM framework and embed a risk-aware culture. VP | Remote Remote |
| Change Lead ... Finatal Partnering with a leading UK energy infrastructure business to find their first Change Lead. The role involves defining and embedding a PM and change methodology, owning the change portfolio, assessing third-party delivery partners, and driving adoption and communications. VP | United Kingdom Unknown |
How classification gets to this category
Energy & Utilities industry classification follows the same multi-stage pipeline as every other industry, with energy-specific signals at the company-tagging stage:
- Company industry tagging. The company is identified via NAICS codes (211, 213, 221, 237 for energy infrastructure), regulatory filings (FERC, state PUC), and a curated allowlist of energy and utilities firms — including IOUs, IPPs, and large renewables developers.
- Sub-sector tagging. The classifier sub-tags O&G majors, IOUs, IPPs, renewables developers, and energy software separately — surfaced as filter facets in the inbox UI. A "VP Operations" at an IOU has different scope than a "VP Operations" at a renewables developer; sub-sector context is preserved through to the candidate.
- JD signals for boundary cases. GPT reads the job description for energy-specific signals (megawatts of capacity, well-count, transmission-line references, regulatory framework citations) when the company allowlist is ambiguous. Editorial review catches edge cases — particularly diversified industrial conglomerates with energy divisions. See the AI Classification page for the full signal hierarchy.
The classifier explicitly excludes from Energy & Utilities: pure carbon-credit traders (these are Climate & Sustainability), oilfield-services-only software companies (these are Technology), and water utilities classified separately.
How matching works for your search
Matching on Energy & Utilities is conjunctive. Every dimension you add narrows the result set rather than expanding it.
Example: select Energy & Utilities + COO/Operations and your inbox shows Operations executive roles at energy companies only — not every Energy role regardless of function, and not every COO role across the platform. You get the intersection.
Tier filtering works on top. If you want only Director-tier and above Energy roles — useful for tracking the promotion-feeder layer into VP — the seniority-tier setting does that cleanly. Or restrict to CXO-tier only for pure C-suite Energy seats. Each filter layer multiplies precision without requiring you to manually scan for noise.
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