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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Founder17
C-Suite155
VP7
Sr Director33
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 212)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Director, Cost Analytics Crusoe Lead financial analytics and project costing for data center builds, serving as the finance partner to Data Center Construction and Development. Director | Denver, CO Onsite |
| Director, Project Development ... Bradsby Group Lead the development and execution of major natural gas-fired power generation projects from early-stage planning through commercial operation. VP | El Paso, Texas Onsite |
| Head of GTM Intergrid Intergrid is seeking a Head of GTM to join their team in Helsinki, focusing on scaling business and expanding to new geographies in Europe. The role involves building a scalable GTM system and leading sales, marketing, partnerships, and RevOps. VP | Helsinki Onsite |
| Sales Director - Public Power Mainspring Energy Lead commercial strategy and transaction execution across Municipalities, Electric Cooperatives, and IOUs for Mainspring Energy. VP | Remote Remote |
| Director, Cell Development QuantumScape Lead solid-state battery cell development from concept to manufacturing. Requires expertise in lithium-metal, solid-state battery technologies, and experience in cell design and scale-up. Director | CA, US, 95110 Onsite |
| Director of Client Operations Climate People Manage client delivery lifecycle, build systems and metrics, perform hands-on data and client work, and lead the delivery team for an AI energy and sustainability software company. Director | Remote Remote |
| Head de Cultura y Talento ... destacada organización Lead the management of learning, organizational climate, and culture. Design and implement initiatives for technical and competency development, employee engagement, and experience. Coordinate measurement, analysis, and intervention processes on learning, work climate, change management, and internal communications. VP | Argentina Unknown |
| Director, Supplier Quality QuantumScape The Director, Supplier Quality will own the Supplier Quality pillar, focusing on supplier qualification, approval, and performance management to drive incoming defects toward zero at the source. The role involves applying lean principles to supplier quality and leading a team of supplier quality engineers. Director | CA, US, 95110 Onsite |
| Head of Product, Systems Torus Lead the product team focusing on product-market fit, manage product strategy across software, data, embedded systems, and testing tools. VP | Salt Lake City, UT Hybrid |
| Director, Customer Strategy Arcadia The Director, Customer Strategy will focus on customer success and strategy in a B2B SaaS environment, building customer lifecycle models and KPI frameworks. Director | Remote Remote |
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