Special Assistant to the CEO
This is a unique opportunity for a highly organized, proactive professional who wants a front row seat to building a growing organization from the ground up. Working directly in support of FESI’s CEO, Board and leadership team, you’ll help shape how the organization operates while gaining exposure to executive decision-making, organizational strategy, and high impact partnerships.
Corporate & Investment Partnerships Manager
The Corporate & Investment Partnerships Manager position will be responsible for maintaining the ecosystem that powers the pipeline. This role requires an organized and detail-oriented person that will support the operational excellence of FESI’s corporate and investor partnership programs. This role ensures our relationships run smoothly; our data is clean and actionable, and our partners consistently experience a high level of return on involvement.
Program Director
The Program Director position will be responsible for leading the overall strategy and execution of FESI’s Federal and small business innovation and commercialization initiative, ensuring the program accelerates startups path from research to market. The ideal candidate is motivated by the prospect of building a new program and creating connective tissue between the Department of Energy, other federal agencies, investors, buyers, and ecosystem partners. The Director leads the end-to-end commercialization pipeline, ensuring startups receive the training, connections, and support needed to transition from research to market. They are highly organized, outgoing, and professional, commercially astute, and energized by the challenge of building and scaling a mission-driven partnership model.
Director of Events
The Director of Events owns the planning, logistics, and execution of events that bring together investors, startups, corporate partners, and policymakers to drive commercialization outcomes. The Director serves as an on-the-ground representative of FESI at events and ensures a high-quality, high-impact experience for all participants. This role oversees the full event lifecycle from concept and logistics to messaging, promotion, and post event follow-up. The Director will ensure that all Foundation events are seamless, well attended, and aligned with the Foundation’s goals..
Vice President of Advancement
The Vice President of Advancement is a seasoned fundraiser and institutional builder who brings deep experience engaging ultra-high-net-worth individuals (UHNWI), family offices, corporate and private foundations, philanthropic collaboratives, and social impact investors. Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and working closely with the COO and Chief of Staff, this role sits on the leadership team and serves as a key external fundraising face of FESI — translating complex programmatic and commercialization outcomes into compelling funding narratives that secure long-term capital flow and organizational sustainability.
Vice President, Commercialization Platform
The Vice President, Commercialization Platform will design and operate the mechanisms that align public and private capital, reduce market friction, and create repeatable pathways for energy technologies to move from validation to scale. The ideal candidate will be fluent in the language of investment — able to engage with venture capital, private equity, corporate strategics, and fund managers, and to communicate the “investability” of DOE-backed companies in terms that resonate in the boardroom. The role serves as a senior external representative of FESI and a strategic partner to investors, corporate leaders, and the broader capital ecosystem, building the private capital infrastructure that makes the platform work.
The Foundation for Energy Security & Innovation is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOO) that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and pregnancy-related conditions), gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances. We are dedicated to this policy in our recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities, access to facilities and programs and general treatment during employment.