---
title: 'Head of Policy and Public Affairs at Arbor Energy'
canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-policy-and-public-affairs-arbor-energy-united-states-x9wch3tmzgey'
type: 'job'
last_seen: '2026-10-30'
---

# Head of Policy and Public Affairs at Arbor Energy

- **Company:** Arbor Energy
- **Location:** United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-30
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/arborenergy/jobs/4465535009

## Job description

## About Us

At Arbor Energy & Resources Corporation ("Arbor Energy"), we’re creating technology to power our lives while protecting the planet that sustains them.  Our advanced power systems deliver clean, reliable baseload electricity with zero operating emissions—modular, fuel-flexible, and engineered for the realities of today’s energy demand. At the core is a supercritical CO₂ turbine with integrated carbon capture, designed to bring carbon-neutral power online quickly at meaningful scale.

Our team includes aerospace engineers, combustion experts, and systems thinkers with a shared goal: to build technology worthy of the world we want to live in. While many of us began our journeys looking to the stars, we’re applying that expertise here at home to deliver dependable, emission-free baseload power and a future of lasting abundance.

If you share our values and are drawn to rigorous work with lasting impact, we’d love to learn more about you. Come build what the future will run on.

Steward our planet: We build for tomorrow, ensuring every bolt we tighten and every hand we lend leaves our environment stronger than we found it.

Lead with Love: We champion the success of our people, partners, and planet, nurturing excellence through camaraderie and rigor.

Explore the Uncharted: We embrace the unknown with curiosity, using courage and discipline to transform uncertainty into opportunity.

## Role Overview

The Head of Policy and Public Affairs will shape the policy, regulatory, stakeholder, and public environment necessary to deploy next-generation power infrastructure with carbon capture at scale.

## Responsibilities

Strategic Policy Leadership

- Serve as a strategic advisor to the executive team, and cross-functional leadership on policy, regulatory, stakeholder, and market-shaping issues.
- Develop and execute Arbor’s federal and state policy strategy in support of commercial deployment objectives.
- Monitor emerging legislation, regulations, and agency actions impacting carbon capture, power generation, grid infrastructure, energy markets, and industrial decarbonization.
- Represent Arbor in industry associations, working groups, coalitions, and policy forums.
- Provide strategic recommendations that help position Arbor for long-term growth and market leadership.

Public Affairs and Strategic Engagement

- Develop and lead Arbor’s public affairs strategy and stakeholder engagement approach.
- Help shape the external narrative around Arbor’s technology, market opportunity, and role in addressing growing electricity demand.
- Partner with executive leadership and cross-functional teams to establish Arbor as a trusted participant in public policy discussions.
- Develop coalitions and advocacy strategies that support Arbor’s long-term business objectives and market development efforts.
- Support executive communications, thought leadership, and external engagement efforts.

Permitting and Deployment Enablement

- Develop strategies that help accelerate permitting and regulatory pathways necessary for commercialization.
- Support efforts to improve and accelerate project-enabling processes, including grid interconnection and Class VI permitting where relevant.
- Build relationships with federal, state, and regional agencies that influence deployment timelines.
- Identify policy and regulatory barriers to deployment and develop mitigation strategies.

Government Funding and Strategic Partnerships

- Identify, pursue, and help secure non-dilutive funding opportunities across federal, state, and regional programs.
- Coordinate with technical, commercial, and finance teams to support grant applications and funding strategies.
- Develop relationships with agencies, policymakers, and funding organizations that can accelerate Arbor’s growth.

## Requirements

- Proven track record of at least 10+ years' experience in energy policy, public affairs, government affairs, infrastructure development, or related fields.
- Demonstrated success influencing policy, regulatory, legislative, or stakeholder outcomes.
- Experience in carbon capture, power generation, grid infrastructure, natural gas, industrial decarbonization, or similar.
- Strong understanding of energy markets, infrastructure development, permitting processes, or industrial project deployment.
- Familiarity with Class VI permitting, EPA programs, DOE funding mechanisms, and energy infrastructure development.
- Exceptional executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience building and maintaining relationships with senior policymakers, regulators, industry leaders, and external stakeholders.
- Ability to operate independently in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Advanced degree.
- Experience working in a startup environment.

## Benefits & Compensation

- Pre-IPO stock options
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance (Arbor covers 90% for employees)
- Basic life insurance fully covered
- Health savings account (HSA) with matching
- Flexible savings account (FSA)
- Unlimited PTO
- 12+ company holidays, including Earth Day!
- 401(k)
- Commuter benefits
- Annual learning and development stipend
- And more!

Base Pay: $200,000 - $220,000 USD/year. The salary is subject to the applicant's skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location.

Our Commitment

Arbor Energy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. Solving global energy challenges requires a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and we are committed to building a team that reflects the world we serve.

Our hiring process is designed to be accessible, fair, and focused on the work that matters most for this role. Reasonable accommodations are available throughout the hiring process and employment—please let us know if you need one.

## About Arbor Energy

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Arbor Energy builds advanced, zero-emission baseload power systems using aerospace-derived oxy-combustion and supercritical CO₂ technology.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, 2025)
- **Headquarters**: El Segundo, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Brad Hartwig (CEO/Co-Founder), Alicia Harmon O’Meara (COO), Andres Garcia-Clark (CTO/Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Clean baseload power generation / Renewable energy
- **Target customers**: Utilities, industrial facilities, and large-scale energy buyers (B2B / Enterprise)
- **Mission statement**: “Human ambition in harmony with the planet” – delivering dependable, emissions-free baseload power at the scale the world requires.

## Products & Services
- **HALCYON (Product)**: Compact 25 MW turbine system combining oxy-combustion with a supercritical CO₂ power cycle. It provides firm, always-on baseload electricity with zero operating emissions. Fuel‑flexible (natural gas today; carbon‑negative fuels in the future) and designed for rapid deployment (under two years from contract to grid power). Systems can be linked into 100 MW+ plants. *(SaaS/Software? No – it’s a physical power system)*
- **ATLAS (Pilot)**: 1 MW test facility (built 2025) used to validate turbomachinery and system integration.
- **Carbon removal**: The process inherently captures and stores CO₂, enabling permanent carbon removal credits (e.g., agreements with Microsoft and Frontier).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – **$109.5 million** (as of 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Gigascale Capital, Voyager Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, Cantos Ventures, U.S. Department of Energy, Microsoft, Frontier
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Named to *Fast Company*’s “Most Innovative Companies” (2026, sustainability category) and “Next Big Things in Tech” (2024)
  - *TIME*’s “Best Inventions of 2024”
  - Won the U.S. Department of Energy’s “Carbon Negative Shot” award (2024)
  - Signed a multi‑year carbon removal agreement with Microsoft and a $41 million offtake agreement with Frontier (2025)
  - Headcount grew 37.5% year‑over‑year to 52 employees; 9,118 LinkedIn followers (+56.8% YoY)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Aerospace DNA**: Founded by engineers from SpaceX, Blue Origin, and other rocket‑building teams – bringing high‑performance turbomachinery and systems engineering to clean energy.
- **Proprietary technology**: Oxy‑combustion + supercritical CO₂ cycle achieves high thermal efficiency in a small footprint, with zero emissions and low water use.
- **Speed & modularity**: Can go from contract to grid power in under two years; 25 MW modules scale to 100 MW+ plants quickly.
- **Integrated carbon removal**: Inherent CO₂ capture gives the company a dual revenue stream (power + carbon credits).

## Strategic Focus
- Accelerate pilot testing and development of HALCYON toward first commercial power in 2028.
- Scale manufacturing and secure additional offtake agreements.
- Expand fuel flexibility to run on carbon‑negative feedstocks (e.g., organic waste).
- Continue hiring across engineering, supply chain, and operations to support rapid growth.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Serious engineering, real responsibility, and problems worth solving.” Values include “Explore the uncharted,” “Lead with love,” and “Steward our planet.”
- **Work environment**: On‑site roles in El Segundo, CA (HQ) and San Bernardino, CA (test site). Not remote/hybrid based on current job listings.
- **Benefits**:
  - Equity grants and refreshes tied to impact
  - Medical, dental, vision (majority of costs covered for employee and family)
  - Unlimited PTO plus company holidays and year‑end winter break
  - Annual learning stipend ($?)
  - 401(k) and legal assistance
- **Team**: 52 employees (2025); strong technical team with 41% in engineering. Many hires from SpaceX, Blue Origin, Rivian, and other advanced hardware companies.

## Sources
1. [arbor.co – Company page](https://arbor.co/company/)
2. [arbor.co – Main site](https://arbor.co/)
3. [arbor.co – Careers page](https://arbor.co/careers/)
4. [Greenhouse – Arbor Energy jobs](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/arborenergy/jobs/4236174009)
5. [LinkedIn – Arbor Energy](https://www.linkedin.com/company/arborenergy)

## Other roles at Arbor Energy

- [Contact Technical Recruiter](https://feeny.ai/job/contact-technical-recruiter-arbor-energy-el-segundo-zkft3mgq0h2g) — El Segundo, CA
- [Assistant Controller](https://feeny.ai/job/assistant-controller-arbor-energy-el-segundo-2z5vg2t3q5nv) — El Segundo, CA
- [Sr. Electrical Engineer - Power Systems](https://feeny.ai/job/sr-electrical-engineer-power-systems-arbor-energy-el-segundo-ctk6bkh6fbvb) — El Segundo, CA
- [Technical Project Lead](https://feeny.ai/job/technical-project-lead-arbor-energy-el-segundo-7fw4y6pre9v9) — El Segundo, CA
- [Brand Marketing Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/brand-marketing-manager-arbor-energy-el-segundo-1xzpjj2z93t1) — El Segundo, CA
- [Technical Program Manager, Business Intelligence & Information Systems](https://feeny.ai/job/technical-program-manager-business-intelligence-information-systems-arbor-4vthvnaxpbx5) — El Segundo, CA
- [Sr. Mechanical Engineer (Gasification)](https://feeny.ai/job/sr-mechanical-engineer-gasification-arbor-energy-el-segundo-99r9mbygy6vh) — El Segundo, CA
- [Sr. Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/sr-environmental-health-safety-ehs-engineer-arbor-energy-el-segundo-2nkxcjb568f6) — El Segundo, CA
- [Head of Manufacturing](https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-manufacturing-arbor-energy-el-segundo-2k5fbjahhmp4) — El Segundo, CA
- [Head of Legal](https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-legal-arbor-energy-el-segundo-vcc7t7ts7n90) — El Segundo, CA