Director of Data Strategy & Insights

Elemental Impact is a nonprofit organization focused on accelerating climate innovation by investing in entrepreneurs developing technologies across energy, industry, food and agriculture, nature, water, and transportation. The organization employs a four-pronged investment approach that combines catalytic capital, project expertise, local partnership, and investor mobilization to fill critical market gaps and support the scaling of clean technology solutions. Through flexible and de-risking funding mechanisms, Elemental Impact enables entrepreneurs to attract follow-on investment and bring impactful technologies to market faster. In addition to direct funding, Elemental Impact provides tailored coaching and wraparound support to its portfolio companies, covering areas such as policy engagement, workforce development, and project capital raising. The organization also fosters connections between entrepreneurs and local partners including schools, farmers, homeowners, government agencies, and workforce providers, ensuring that climate solutions are embedded within communities. Its investor mobilization efforts link portfolio companies with investors, project funders, and customers to drive commercialization at scale. Elemental Impact launched Earthshot Ventures in 2021, a venture fund designed to deliver market-leading financial returns alongside meaningful climate impact. The organization has also initiated the Data Center Innovation Initiative in partnership with Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft, focused on deploying next-generation technologies for more sustainable data infrastructure. Elemental Impact has collaborated with notable partners including Speed & Scale, McKinsey & Co., the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Energy Innovation, and Breakthrough Energy Ventures on tools such as the Climate Tech Map.

About Elemental Impact

Elemental Impact is a nonprofit investor with 17 years of experience advancing innovative technologies with deep environmental and local impact. Elemental is supported by 40 funders and its portfolio includes 160 companies that have catalyzed $11.8B in additional funding and created more than 18,100 jobs. Elemental works to address market failures for first-of-a-kind and early commercial projects by providing catalytic capital and specialized expertise—from policy engagement to workforce development. 

About the role

Elemental is seeking a Director of Data Strategy & Insights to lead how we measure, understand, and communicate impact across our portfolio and the broader climate innovation ecosystem.
This role sits at the intersection of data, strategy, and storytelling. You will build the systems, analytics, and insights that help Elemental make better investment decisions, identify emerging trends, and demonstrate the real-world impact of our work. We're looking for someone who is equally comfortable building dashboards, designing scalable data systems, and synthesizing complex information into clear insights that drive action. 

As a key cross-functional partner, you'll work closely with our investment, portfolio, communications, and operations teams to strengthen data infrastructure, improve decision-making, and surface the stories that matter most. You'll also help identify and implement AI and automation tools that improve efficiency and enable our team to scale its impact. This role will report to the Chief Operating Officer.

Key Responsibilities Include:                         

Data Strategy & Infrastructure

• Lead the design and execution of Elemental’s organizational data strategy, including the portfolio annual shareholder survey. 
• Maintain and continuously improve centralized data infrastructure, primarily within HubSpot and Airtable
• Improve the organization's CRM architecture, including stakeholder engagement, pipeline tracking, and reporting systems
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI tools, automate workflows, integrate emerging technologies, and improve organizational efficiency

Impact Analysis & Insights 

• Analyze organizational and portfolio performance, pipeline activity, investment outcomes, and market trends, with a focus on analysis of the annual shareholder survey results.
• Develop dashboards, visualizations, and reporting tools that translate internal and external industry datasets into actionable insights
• Identify emerging themes and trends across sectors, and proactively surface strategic opportunities and risks
• Partner with investment, growth, communications, and leadership teams to translate insights into compelling narratives, reports, case studies, and thought leadership
• Help oversee and manage external data partnerships, including relationships with data analytics firms

Portfolio Coaching 

• Establish portfolio-wide impact measurement frameworks and reporting standards 
• Coach companies on identifying the metrics for growth, impact and commercialization and linking metrics to environmental and community outcomes, business performance and revenue growth
• Support the development of impact narratives that resonate with customers, partners, policymakers, and investors
• Advise companies on building scalable data collection, management, and reporting systems
• Facilitate peer learning by identifying common challenges, benchmarks, and best practices across the portfolio

About You 

You're naturally curious and passionate about using data to better understand the world. You enjoy uncovering patterns, asking thoughtful questions, and turning complex information into clear, actionable insights. Equally comfortable with analytical rigor and big-picture thinking, you're focused on finding the "so what" behind the data.

You're also a strong collaborator and communicator who can translate insights across teams and audiences. You believe data is most valuable when it informs decisions, shapes strategy, and strengthens storytelling. In this role, you'll help bring clarity to complexity, uncover meaningful signals across our portfolio, and translate them into insights that advance Elemental's mission. 

Qualifications

(Even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications, we still encourage you to apply!)

Foundational skills & experience:

• Analytical rigor – Strong experience analyzing complex datasets and translating findings into actionable insights, recommendations, and strategic decisions
• Impact orientation – Experience measuring and evaluating environmental, economic, or social outcomes within climate, investment, or mission-driven organizations
• Data storytelling – Ability to synthesize quantitative and qualitative information into compelling narratives and data visualizations 
• Systems expertise – Experience building and managing scalable data infrastructure, CRM systems, and reporting workflows using platforms such as HubSpot, Airtable, Salesforce, or similar tools
• Collaborative leadership – Strong project management, communication, and cross-functional partnership skills with the ability to align teams around data-driven insights
• Entrepreneurial mindset – Comfort operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment where curiosity, adaptability, and initiative are highly valued

What would set you apart:

• Automation fluency – Familiarity with automation and AI tools that improve reporting, workflows, and organizational efficiency
• Coaching acumen – Experience consulting, supporting entrepreneurs or providing client-services around impact measurement and reporting

Compensation & Benefits

This is a full-time "at-will" position working at least 40 hours per week. You will be asked to travel for work periodically. 

The salary range for this role is $138,100 - $207,200, which is based on market data and the organization's compensation philosophy. Our offer will be within the range as required by certain state laws and individual salary offers will vary within the range depending on location, relevant education, knowledge, skills, and experience. We also offer comprehensive employee benefits, including a professional development stipend and three weeks paid time off. 

Location

We strongly prefer candidates located near one of our headquarters: Honolulu, San Francisco, and New York. Elemental has a hybrid working model and if you are within a reasonable distance to one of our offices in New York, Bay Area, or Honolulu, we ask employees to come into the office at least once a week. Currently, most people come in two times a week to build community with team members. 

Other Application Details

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa.

We will accept and review applications on a rolling basis. Although all applications will be considered, we may be unable to respond to all inquiries. Please note that we do read cover letters, so we advise spending time on them to share your relevant stories and experiences with us. We ask that you keep the cover letter to 1-2 pages long. 

Elemental is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Elemental is also committed to providing access and reasonable accommodation in its services, activities, programs, and employment opportunities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and other applicable laws.