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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Founder5
C-Suite143
VP8
Sr Director34
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 190)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| PGIM Credit, Power and Energy Originations Sr Director Prudential Financial, Inc. Manage and originate investment transactions in power generation assets, lead a team, and report to the Managing Director of PGIM’s Real Assets - Power group. VP | Newark, NJ, USA Hybrid |
| Executive Plant Leader, Onshore Wind GE Vernova Drive safe, high-quality, and efficient operations in a large blade manufacturing factory within the Onshore Wind business. Focus on safety, quality, delivery, and cost, ensuring world-class manufacturing standards. VP | Grand Forks, ND, US Onsite |
| Head of Hardware Fuse Energy Lead hardware engineering for connected energy devices at Fuse Energy, focusing on electronics design, compliance, and supply chain management. VP | London, England, United Kingdom Onsite |
| Director, Business Development QuantumScape Lead customer engagement, opportunity capture, strategic partnerships, and revenue growth within the defense sector for QuantumScape. VP | Remote Remote |
| Data Center Energy Lead Anthropic Lead energy procurement and markets strategy for AI infrastructure, manage utility and regulatory stakeholders, and drive energy markets and policy strategy. VP | San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY Hybrid |
| Industry CTO - MAE (Manufacturing, Automotive & Energy) Salesforce The Salesforce Industry CTO will shape Salesforce’s industry technology vision across ASEAN, help customers translate business ambition into measurable outcomes, and develop trusted C-level relationships. The role involves building solutions, demos, and prototypes, and representing Salesforce as an industry technology expert. VP | Singapore - Singapore Hybrid |
| Regional HSS&E Director Brookfield Energy The Regional HSS&E Director will lead and coordinate HSS&E-related activities, provide expert advice, and support Brookfield's commitment to HSS&E excellence. Director | Toronto, Ontario Onsite |
| R&D Leader - GridBeats Portfolio GE Vernova Lead the global R&D vision, transform ideas into market-ready products, and cultivate a culture of innovation. Manage a team of 250+ R&D engineers and a $30M budget. VP | Remote Remote |
| 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 |
| Director, Enterprise Account Management, Physical Sciences Lila Sciences Manage strategic accounts in materials, chemicals, energy, and semiconductor sectors. Requires 10+ years in enterprise sales or business development. Director | Cambridge, MA, USA Onsite |
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.
Remote mix