Careers
Careers
Are you passionate about tackling the climate emergency? Do you believe youth have the power to change the world? How does spending every day working with diverse, smart and motivated co-workers who care about the future sound? At ACE, we love our jobs, our mission and what we can do together. ACE is an equal opportunity employer that highly values diversity, equity and inclusion and views the climate crisis as a social justice crisis. People of color, Indigenous people, people who experience gender oppression, people with disabilities and people who identify as members of the LGBTQIA+ community are encouraged to apply. ACE offers an excellent overall compensation package to all staff which includes: a competitive base salary commensurate with skills and experience; health coverage that includes medical, dental, vision, HSA, and FSA; 403b retirement savings plan with matching company contributions; generous vacation package, sick time, Floating Holidays and 13 paid holidays. ACE is an equal-opportunity employer that highly values diversity, equity, and inclusion and views the climate crisis as a social justice crisis. People who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), people who experience gender oppression, people with disabilities, and people who identify as members of the LGBTQIA+ community are particularly encouraged to apply.
Positions Available
Director of Performance Marketing, Growth
The Director of Performance Marketing will work to advance the programmatic and strategic growth of the Action for the Climate Emergency (ACE) through implementing, managing, and improving ACE’s paid advertising campaign strategies in key states and nationally, across the organization’s primary issue areas of: climate education and storytelling, stopping fossil fuel expansion, expanding voter engagement in democracy and accelerating the decarbonized economy.
In this position, the Director of Performance Marketing will work to strengthen ACE’s role and impact in advocating for an end to the era of fossil fuels, a swift and equitable transition to renewable energy, and an increase in diverse youth participation in our democracy as well as devise creative strategies to inoculate persuadable audiences for ACE’s current and future white label entities. This is a future-facing role for an ads expert who thrives at the convergence of digital innovation, audience segmentation, and data-driven campaign performance. This is a full-time, remote position based in the United States. The Director of Performance Marketing will work from home, meet regularly by video chat with ACE team members and partners, and conduct the majority of activities both online and in-person, when safe. The Director of Performance Marketing must be available for travel within the United States to participate in staff retreats and/or conferences.
Associate Director, Institutional Giving
The Associate Director of Institutional Giving (ADIG) is an essential part of ACE’s Development team—responsible for raising funds from foundation, corporate, and other institutional sources, in collaboration with the Chief Development Officer and the Senior Director of Development. The ADIG reports to the Senior Director of Development.
Our annual fundraising budget for fiscal year 2026 is $25M, including $18.6 million from 501(c)3 and 501(c)4 institutional sources. The ADIG plays an essential role in meeting our institutional revenue goals and ensuring the overall success of the development team—managing the grant cycle for a growing portfolio of 50 existing funders and securing new institutional investments via prospecting strategies. The ADIG is responsible for:
- Leading all moves management and relationship development for renewed and increased giving from existing portfolio, acting as primary point of contact for regular verbal and written communication at all stages of the grant lifecycle from cultivation through solicitation.
- Conducting regular prospecting for year-over-year growth of portfolio via identification, outreach and solicitation of new funders and opportunities aligned with ACE’s mission, programs, and values.
- Writing all grant collateral for deliverables in portfolio, including proposals and reports.
- Managing donor data for portfolio in ACE’s Salesforce CRM, including grant opportunities, institution contacts, and other institution account details.
The ADIG will join a small, skilled Development team with strong leadership, support and active fundraising led in partnership with the CEO. The ADIG will work closely with both the CDO and Senior Director of Development to strategize funding opportunities, pursue moves management strategies, identify top prospects for outreach, and draft and review proposals and reports.
This is a fully remote position based anywhere in the United States, that will require consistent, frequent communication and collaboration within a fully remote team. This is a tech-forward role in a very tech-forward organization.
Innovation Lab Director
Location: Remote (US or International)
JOB SUMMARY
It’s a regular Friday at the Lab: In a workshop you’re leading, the civic engagement team just came up with a new approach to Gen Z engagement. Meanwhile, one of your researchers is piloting an AI tool that could revolutionize grant reporting. You head back to your desk to design next week’s hack-a-thon that might produce our next $10M program.
This is the kind of impact we’re building toward at ACE’s Better Lab — an internal innovation program designed to ensure we stay ahead of a rapidly changing political, cultural and technological landscape while building a culture of creativity and continuous learning. We’re seeking a founding Director to build this lab from the ground up, working closely with our teams to solve problems, generate breakthrough ideas, and run bold experiments that amplify our impact.
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Parasocial Creator Marketing Director
Location: Remote position (Anywhere in the US)
JOB SUMMARY
ACE currently has more than 7,000 youth content creators in its Creator Collective with microvideos being created across TikTok, Instagram and YouTube. To our knowledge, ACE is building the largest youth climate creator network in the world.
The Parasocial Creator Marketing Director will help devise and execute large-scale creator marketing campaigns via ACE’s Creator Collective. A key focus of this role will be in the conception and implementation of timely and innovative creator marketing campaigns in new and emerging parasocial media channels, with a special focus on streaming platforms (e.g. Twitch) and podcasts, testing new “always on” strategies informed by research and data. In addition, this position will lead the refinement and innovation of the internal and external processes that fuel our creator marketing campaigns to achieve scale, improve productivity and efficacy.
This is a full-time position based remotely anywhere in the US. The Parasocial Creator Marketing Director will work from home, meet weekly by video chat with teams and have weekly national full staff meetings with colleagues online.
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AI Product Manager
Location: Remote
JOB SUMMARY
We’re looking for a proactive and versatile Product Manager with a deep understanding of AI technologies to join our team. In this role, you will bridge the gap between technical teams and program stakeholders, driving the development of AI-powered solutions that improve our products and services. While you don’t need to be an expert in coding, you should have a solid understanding of programming concepts and be able to effectively communicate with developers, data scientists, and other technical team members.
Your primary responsibility will be to translate goals, pain points, and technical constraints into actionable product features that leverage AI. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams to build, launch, and iterate on AI-driven initiatives, all while ensuring that our products meet the needs of our users and stay ahead of industry trends. This position will report to the Senior Director of Engineering and Product.
In this capacity, you will be instrumental in bolstering ACE’s advocacy for a carbon-neutral society, promoting rapid and just transitions to renewable energy in the U.S. and worldwide, and engaging a diverse array of young individuals in democratic processes.
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Renewables Policy Analyst
Location: Remote position (Anywhere in the US)
JOB SUMMARY
To meet our climate goals, we must accelerate deployment of utility-scale renewables at a breakneck speed over the next decade. We see the biggest opportunities to advance decarbonization at the state and local level–fighting restrictive renewable energy policy, securing pro-renewable policy wins, bucking the regulatory trends that are favoring fossil fuel generation over affordable, reliable renewable sources, accelerating utility-scale solar and wind energy projects in communities across the country, fighting local ordinances that are detrimental to the renewable energy transition and proactively advancing local ordinances that are conducive to renewables, bring economic and community benefits, and balance environmental impacts.
We are seeking a seasoned renewable energy policy expert to serve as the Renewables Policy Analyst. This position will play a pivotal role focused on local- and state-level policy and regulatory conditions that are at the crux of accelerating the deployment of utility-scale renewables, particularly in rural communities across the US. This role will spearhead the tracking of local ordinances, state level policies, and regulations that impact renewable energy projects through a strategic analysis of threats and opportunities for renewables, where we can have influence through advocacy campaigns, and targeted entry points and decision makers. The Renewables Policy Analyst will share research and analysis of targeted ordinances, policies and regulations, entry points and messaging to inform advocacy campaign implementation, both digitally and on-the-ground. The Renewables Policy Analyst will also provide advice and input to the project origination team about any policies or regulatory conditions that may impact a particular renewable energy project of focus.
This is a full-time, remote role based anywhere in the United States. The Renewables Policy Analyst will report to the Head of Communications and Public Relations–and ultimately to the Government Affairs Director, once hired–and be part of the Campaigns Team, working collaboratively across the full team and externally. The Renewables Policy Analyst will be a highly collaborative professional who will work across teams and externally, conduct deep research in databases and across partner resources, and effectively manage up with leadership to secure timely decisions on policy opportunities. The Renewables Policy Analyst will operate from a home office, participate in regular in-person events, field work, and both internal and external meetings. Frequent interactions through video chat with ACE team members, partners, vendors, and funders are expected. Flexibility to work irregular hours as needed and a willingness to travel for field-based activities and partner meetings.
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ACE is an equal-opportunity employer that highly values diversity, equity, and inclusion and views the climate crisis as a social justice crisis. People who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), people who experience gender oppression, people with disabilities, and people who identify as members of the LGBTQIA+ community are particularly encouraged to apply.
Communication Director
Location: Remote position (Anywhere in the US)
JOB SUMMARY
We are looking for a highly skilled Communications Director to build ACE’s presence, messaging consistency and brand awareness as we seek to reach new levels of scale and impact over the next critical five year window, especially with climate and political philanthropists, clean energy developers and elected officials.
The Communications Director will both directly build relationships with, pitch to, and share press releases/statements/quotes with reporters in key outlets while also working closely with a reputable, national PR firm in the climate, clean energy and democracy space. The Communications Director will develop overall messaging for campaigns that can be used across the organization’s tactics from in-list communications, digital ads, creator content, video storytelling and more. The Communications Director will also support the Communications Manager on Executive Communications, including LinkedIn posts, Board reports and communications and funder briefings and newsletters. The Communications Director will also manage the Associate Director of Communications to implement engagement strategies with our 1.3 million Youth Action Network members.
This is a full-time position based anywhere in the United States. The Communications Director will report to the Head of Policy and Public Relations and manage a small, growing team. The candidate will work from home, meet as required by video chat with teams, and have weekly national full staff meetings with colleagues online. Regular travel will be required for building relationships with reporters, relevant events, staff retreats and other convenings as needed.
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Marketing Director, Global
Location: Remote, Global
JOB SUMMARY
The Global Director of Marketing (GDM) at ACE is an essential part of ACE’s Growth and Digital Team, leading all aspects of ACE’s global strategic communications, digital advertising, and creator marketing strategies. The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of the geopolitics of climate change, energy markets, and global marketing strategies, as well as an extensive network of trusted consultants and marketing agencies with whom they’ve worked.
The GDM will work across teams to build high-impact, high-scale digital campaigns to 1) shift public opinion away from fossil fuels, and 2) accelerate the deployment of decarbonized energy, industry, transport and jobs. The GDM will lead global outreach with vendors, partners and consultants in three predetermined global markets of UK, South Africa and Brazil, lead the development of ACE’s global creator community, design and execute highly-effective campaigns to achieve our goals, and work with ACE’s Research and Experimentation Team to monitor, evaluate and improve our offerings.
This is a full-time position, anywhere in the world. Candidates must be willing to work a consistent 8-hr work day, during a slot of their choosing, within the hours of 9am Eastern Time to 8pm Eastern Time. Employment will be contracted by an employer of record with benefits, as stipulated by the needs and law of the country of residence for non-US candidates. The GDM will work from home, meet as required by video chat with teams, and have weekly national full staff meetings with colleagues online. Travel will be required when safe to relevant events, staff retreats, and other convenings as needed.
The GDM reports to the Chief Strategy Officer and will manage all aspects of our global strategic communications efforts, including but not limited to: creative strategy, creator marketing, vendor management, and digital/out-of-home/print advertising. Strong candidates will bring a breadth and depth of experience in digital advertising, media, brand management, and communications. Additionally, the GDM will lead the design and launch of ACE’s global creator community, working in partnership with in-country ACE Marketing Directors in our regions of focus. The GDM will oversee global creator recruitment, community management, and professional development.
The GDM will ensure ACE’s global marketing efforts are highly-scalable, effective and cost-efficient—all while delivering highly-engaging, shareworthy content aligned with ACE’s campaigns in the region. The GDM will be managed through an in-country Employer of Record in the country they reside and the position has a term of one year through December 31, 2026.
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Executive Assistant
Location: Remote position (Anywhere in the US)
JOB SUMMARY
The Executive Assistant is responsible for providing comprehensive support to the CEO across a wide variety of areas, including but not limited to: logistics, scheduling, financial management and reconciliation, compliance, legal, HR, and other critical administrative functions. This dynamic position requires the ability to anticipate needs, think critically, and offer solutions to problems with a high level of professionalism and confidentiality. The ideal candidate is highly self-motivated, organized, and capable of managing their workload and prioritizing tasks in a fast-paced, growing non-profit environment.
This is a full-time position based anywhere in the United States. The Executive Assistant will work from home, work regularly with the CEO and other members of the Executive Team, meet as required by video chat with internal teams, and have weekly national full staff meetings with colleagues online. Travel may be required, as safety allows.
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Data Director
Location: Remote position (Anywhere in the US)
JOB SUMMARY
The Data Director is primarily responsible for managing ACE’s databases, CRM, and analytics and bringing the information in them together to provide breakthrough insights that would power our outreach for our global and US campaigns at large.
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