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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Founder28
C-Suite111
VP8
Sr Director38
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 |
|---|---|
| Commercial Leader - Energy Flower Lead a team in the energy sector, focusing on renewable energy, AI, and machine learning. Responsible for strategy and sales origination. VP | Stockholm Onsite |
| Director Of Operations ... Joseph Michaels International Responsible for standing up and scaling centralized, fleet-wide operations functions across a multi-site, historically autonomous generation portfolio. VP | Fresno, CA Onsite |
| Growth Lead, Base Energy Base The Growth Lead will own the growth strategy, pricing, and commercial strategy for Base Energy's retail electricity business, focusing on enrollment targets, pricing authority, and market expansion. VP | Austin, TX Onsite |
| Chief Digital Officer (CDO) ... leading photovoltaic manufacturing company The CDO will lead digital strategy, smart manufacturing, supply chain digitalization, data platform development, and IT governance for a leading photovoltaic manufacturing company. C-Suite | International Unknown |
| Director / Senior Director of Accounting Mainspring Energy Lead accounting operations, build scalable processes, enhance audit readiness, and develop the accounting team at Mainspring Energy. VP | Menlo Park, CA Onsite |
| Director of Product, Customer Experience Voltus Lead product management for customer-facing aspects of Voltus' platform, focusing on customer dispatch, performance, and financial experience. Requires expertise in energy markets and product management. Director | Remote Remote |
| Director of Marketing and Communications Electricity Human Resources Canada The Director of Marketing and Communications will lead EHRC's marketing, communications, and stakeholder engagement activities. The role involves advancing EHRC’s brand and market presence through integrated marketing and communications initiatives. C-Suite | Ottawa, Canada Unknown |
| Engineering Director Alva Energy Alva Energy is hiring an Engineering Director to lead engineering for nuclear power uprate projects, reporting to the CTO. Responsibilities include leading multi-discipline engineering delivery, managing EPCs, and developing technical specifications. VP | Cambridge, MA; Philadelphia, PA Hybrid |
| Director of Quality Torus The Director of Quality will build and lead a quality organization across Quality Systems and Quality Assurance, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements and driving systemic improvement. Director | Salt Lake City, UT Onsite |
| Government Affairs Lead Base The role involves monitoring legislative environments, building relationships, and spearheading policy changes for Base, a power company focused on distributed energy resources. VP | Austin, TX 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.
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