Executive Director

Location: Remote, with regular in-person meetings in the Seattle metro area

Posting Date: September 24, 2026. Applications submitted by October 19 will be given full consideration. Early applications are strongly encouraged. Interviewing will begin in late October.

Salary Range: $185,000 – $215,000

Anticipated Start: Early January 2027

Clean & Prosperous is seeking an Executive Director to lead our next chapter.

Washington's Climate Commitment Act is one of the most ambitious carbon markets in the world, and one of the most closely watched. We helped build it, helped defend it at the ballot box, and have spent the years since working to make sure it delivers — for emissions, for communities, and for the businesses whose participation the model depends on.

That work has made us something unusual. We are not a typical environmental advocacy organization and we are not a business association. We are a nonpartisan, data-driven organization that businesses, agencies, legislators, Tribal leaders, and environmental groups all trust enough to sit down with. That position took a decade to earn, and it is the foundation of everything we do.

Our next Executive Director will join a skilled team, a diversified revenue base, and a set of ambitions that will require the organization to grow. We are looking for a leader with a track record of building revenue, relationships, and high-performing teams; the entrepreneurial instinct to turn opportunity into results; and the confidence to take on ambitious goals.

Clean & Prosperous is a nonpartisan nonprofit advancing clean energy solutions that grow Washington's economy, improve public health, and reduce carbon emissions. We began in 2013 as an alliance of business leaders who believed that climate policy and economic prosperity are not a trade-off — and that the fastest path to decarbonization runs through practical, evidence-based policy that businesses can support.

We were founded by the late David Giuliani, an entrepreneur best known for co-inventing the Sonicare toothbrush, who spent the final decade of his life bringing together leaders from across sectors and ideologies to pursue pragmatic climate solutions. That entrepreneurial approach still shapes how we work.

We Convene. Study Missions, the Future of Carbon Policy Forum, and cross-sector working groups that bring business, government, Tribal, labor, and environmental leaders together on hard questions.

We Educate. Original research and analysis that translates complex policy into plain language — the Climate Commitment Map, CCA budget and economic analysis, and tools that policymakers, reporters, and businesses use.

We Advocate. Common-sense climate policy in Olympia, grounded in evidence, that holds the state accountable to the commitments made in the CCA.

We Electrify. Direct program delivery accelerating clean transportation — EV charging infrastructure, zero-emission trucks, and fleet electrification across Washington.

We do policy work and we deliver programs. That combination means we are not analyzing the clean energy transition from the outside — we are in it, and what we learn delivering the work shapes what we advocate for. Some of what that has produced:

• We helped write and pass the Climate Commitment Act
  , then helped defend it against repeal, and we remain an independent voice on how well it is working.
• Washington's carbon auctions have raised $4.72 billion
  , with 50% directed to overburdened communities and 10% to Tribal Nation–led projects
  . We map and track more than 3,800 funded projects across the state so that the public can see what the policy is buying.
• Through Charging Forward Together
  , we are supporting the deployment of more than 5,000 new public EV charging…