Vice President of Strategy (Nuclear Energy)

Location: Remote; Washington, D.C. or Los Angeles preferred. Remote employees must travel to headquarters in Santa Clara, California, twice per quarter; the first two weeks of onboarding are in person at headquarters. Significant executive and team travel may be required. Only applicants who meet the definition of a U.S. person under applicable laws may be eligible.

Salary: $250,000–$280,000

Company

hirify.global develops fast fission power plants, critical-radioisotope supply chains, and nuclear fuel recycling technologies to deliver clean, reliable, and affordable energy.

What you will do

• Build and lead the corporate Strategy function, including its operating model, talent, resource allocation, standards, and results.
• Own long-range enterprise strategy covering portfolio choices, priority markets, business models, growth platforms, and resource allocation.
• Set the strategic agenda, identify opportunities and risks, and guide decisions on initiatives to pursue, defer, reshape, or decline.
• Lead annual and multi-year planning, objectives and key results, scorecards, initiative reviews, and the strategic-initiative portfolio.
• Evaluate partnerships, capital initiatives, acquisitions, new ventures, international opportunities, and structural options with business and functional leaders.
• Advise founders, executives, and the Board; personally lead selected high-stakes initiatives through decision, launch, transaction, or operational handoff.

Requirements

• Substantial senior leadership experience in corporate strategy, general management, business building, or a comparable enterprise mandate, with a record of shaping company direction and driving implementation.
• Demonstrated success building high-performing teams, setting an agenda, developing talent, managing performance, and delivering results through others.
• Experience advising founders, senior executives, or Boards on consequential choices and creating alignment around difficult decisions.
• Strong commercial and financial judgment across business models, partnerships, capital requirements, growth opportunities, portfolio choices, and resource tradeoffs.
• Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives across functions and business units without relying solely on direct reporting authority.
• Excellent writing, synthesis, and executive communication skills, with credibility to challenge assumptions and represent the company with senior counterparties.
• Ability to take ownership of the function’s agenda, people, standards, and results; exercise evidence-based judgment; build alignment; make difficult tradeoffs explicit; and combine senior leadership with hands-on work.

Nice to have

• Experience building a Strategy function or leading strategy across multiple businesses in a growing, capital-intensive, or regulated company.
• Experience with industrial or technology partnerships, capital formation, international initiatives, acquisitions, or new ventures.
• Experience leading executive and Board strategy work and establishing effective company planning and accountability processes.

Culture & Benefits

• Values include collaboration, humility, ownership, and pathfinding.
• Flexible time off, flexible work hours, and wellness credits.
• Equity, bonuses, competitive pay, 401(k), health insurance with employer contribution, HSA, and FSA.
• Employment may be contingent upon successful completion of a drug screening, with possible subsequent testing under company policy and applicable laws.