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Career Opportunities at LACI

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Director, City Climate Innovation

The City Climate Innovation Director will play a critical role in bringing LACI’s proven innovation model forward to help cities and regions across California and the nation deploy and scale cleantech solutions. This role initially focuses on directing LACI’s inaugural City Climate Innovation Challenge for Zero Emission Delivery, working with local municipalities to accelerate the move to zero emissions delivery vehicles and technologies to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve air quality, reduce traffic congestion, and enhance overall livability of urban environments.
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Pilots Innovation Manager

Reporting to the Vice President of Innovation Pilots, the Manager, Innovation Pilots plays a key role in LACI’s work to develop and execute catalytic pilots in underserved communities with startups and partner organizations. This role works to drive utilization of the innovation pilots in partnership with community based organizations, business entities, and elected officials, ensuring that we collect data and assess the impacts of the pilots in order to both pivot as needed and to surface lessons that can be utilized to scale the adoption of technologies deployed. The Manager, Innovation Pilots works as part of the Innovation Pilots Team to tackle pilot strategy and execution, working to advance the overall priorities set forth by the Market Transformation team with direction from the cross departmental Pilots Coordinating Team (PCT) and in consultation with LACI’s Clean Energy, Transportation Electrification, and Sustainable Cities partnerships.
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Program Director, Transportation Electrification

The Transportation Electrification Partnership (TEP) is an unprecedented multi-year public-private partnership of more than 25 members committed to accelerating transportation electrification and zero emissions goods movement throughout the Los Angeles region in advance of the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games by pursuing bold targets, pilots, initiatives, and policies that are equity-driven, create quality jobs, and grow the economy.
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Program Manager, Energy

The Program Manager, Energy, is responsible for helping advance LACI’s Clean Energy Partnership initiatives to accelerate clean energy technology commercialization and leads LACI’s market landscaping and analysis efforts for clean energy, zero emission transportation and sustainable cities. This position is based at LACI’s headquarters in Downtown Los Angeles and reports to the Sr. Director of Energy within the Market Transformation pillar.
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Program Director, City Climate Innovation

The City Climate Innovation Director will play a critical role in bringing LACI’s proven innovation model forward to help cities and regions across California and the nation deploy and scale cleantech solutions. This role initially focuses on directing LACI’s inaugural City Climate Innovation Challenge for Zero Emission Delivery, working with local municipalities to accelerate the move to zero emissions delivery vehicles and technologies to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve air quality, reduce traffic congestion, and enhance overall livability of urban environments.
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Pipeline Coordinator, Startups

This role is responsible for supporting the start-to-finish application and selection process for new startups that join LACI’s incubation programs. This includes communications and outreach, and executing the complete recruitment cycle, including initial vetting and due diligence, coordinating the stakeholder review process, communicating with startups throughout the application process, and overseeing contracting to bring these companies into the LACI Portfolio. Reporting to the Senior Pipeline Manager, this role will also include market research, competitive analysis, and tracking metrics toward departmental recruitment goals.

Requests for Information & Proposals

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RFP for Executives in Residence

LACI Request for Quotes (RFQ)

LACI is seeking experienced professionals to serve as a mentors and accountability coach for LACI startups in up to five LACI programs, providing services that include business strategy suggestions and serving as a guide for setting milestones and ensuring the company is equipped to meet their goals and participate in LACI program(s). Must be available to conduct meetings in person on the LKIC campus as desired by the startup or LACI program team. Submissions due March 22, 2024.

Portfolio Company Opportunities

Career Opportunities with LACI Portfolio Companies

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Applied Anthropologist/ Project Manager

ReJoule is looking for an experienced project manager with a background in a field that may include human-centered design, qualitative research, anthropology, or sociology who can help with all of this. ReJoule seeks that rare candidate who straddles the divide between academia and what others call the real world, a critical thinker who knows how to get things done and may even have a gift for navigating red tape (there will be a lot of that). You’ll need to be talented at listening, observing, writing fieldnotes, gaining trust with project partners, and conducting qualitative interviews. ReJoule is open to remote work with some travel to sites or having a new face at their Signal Hill, California, office. The job can be full-time or, particularly as the company ramps up, on a steady part-time basis. California residency or openness to relocating is required.

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Electrical Engineering Intern

ReJoule is looking for an Electrical Engineering Intern to participate in bring-up and basic testing of PCBs, wiring and testing of low voltage and high voltage electronics, electrical systems, and batteries along with working with other engineering teams on hardware validation. Candidates should be passionate about building things to solve tangible problems, and even more passionate about creating a more sustainable future. ReJoule is looking for highly motivated self-starters comfortable in an early stage company environment. The ideal candidate would work directly with ReJoule’s Engineers, and report to the Hardware Systems Manager.

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Renewable Energy Engineering Intern (Summer 2024)

ReJoule is looking for a renewable energy engineering intern to participate in the design of microgrids and battery systems, along with building and testing hardware. Candidates should be passionate about building things to solve tangible problems, and even more passionate about creating a more sustainable future. ReJoule is looking for a highly motivated self-starter comfortable in an early stage company environment. The ideal candidate would work directly with ReJoule’s engineers and report to the Senior Battery Applications Engineer.

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Embedded Systems Engineer

ReJoule is currently hiring a full-time Embedded Systems Engineer that will assist in designing, implementing, and testing embedded software and hardware systems for mixed-signal electronics applications such as switch mode power supply and battery management system applications. Candidates should be passionate about hardware and software integration of electronics, and even more passionate about creating a more sustainable future. ReJoule is looking for highly motivated self-starters comfortable in an early stage company environment. The ideal candidate would work with and report directly to the Senior Embedded Systems Engineer as part of the engineering team. This is an on-site position, with a hybrid-work option.

Volunteer and Internship Opportunities

At LACI, we are always looking to connect with smart, motivated people.
If you enjoy working in Marketing & Communications, IT, Events, Community Management, Operations, or projects within our Incubation program, Market Transformation, or Enhancing Community teams, please apply here.

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