VoltForce is the specialist boutique recruiter for battery technology, energy storage, EV and charging infrastructure, grid and power electronics, and hydrogen and clean fuels across the United States and Canada.
The climatech talent pool that delivers commercial outcomes (senior cell engineers, manufacturing leads, power electronics architects, grid software directors, hydrogen process engineers) is small, tightly clustered, and rarely on the job market. Most of the people who matter for a Series A or Series B climatech build aren't applying to job postings. They're being recruited out of cells, packs, gigafactory floors, OEM powertrain teams, national labs, and a handful of established players who hold most of the senior bench in North America.
VoltForce's entire firm is built for this reality. Every active search compounds what we know about who's senior, who's quietly looking, and who's about to move. We don't take side mandates outside our three verticals (climatech, advanced materials, Industry 4.0), which means our network depth in battery technology, EV powertrain, grid systems, and hydrogen isn't diluted by adjacent sectors that wouldn't sharpen the work.
Typical VoltForce searches in climatech span the full lifecycle of a venture-backed company, from the first senior technical hire at Pre-seed through C-level builds at Series C.
The difference between cell-level expertise and pack-assembly knowledge, between cathode chemistry and anode formulation, between EV powertrain and stationary grid systems: these aren't subtle distinctions. They shape who can actually do the role.
VoltForce's recruiters live inside the climatech sector. We attend the International Battery Seminar and Advanced Automotive Battery Conference. Our founder is a Workforce Program Director at the Volta Foundation and a contributor at Battery Tech Online. That standing isn't a marketing line. It's how we hear about senior moves before they hit the market, how we get warm introductions to passive candidates, and how we understand the actual commercial implications of hiring decisions.
Every search runs through Filament, our proprietary recruitment platform. Filament's skill taxonomy is tuned to climatech. It knows the difference between a cell-line process engineer and a pack-assembly process engineer, between hydromet and conventional refining, between perovskite tandem and silicon heterojunction. The matching is career-arc-based, not keyword-based, which means the candidates surfaced for a senior climatech search are people whose actual trajectories fit the role's actual demands.
Every client also gets a real-time Filament portal: every candidate, every stage, every note, visible the moment it happens. The data you see in the portal is the data VoltForce sees. Recruitment, in full view.
VoltForce offers three engagement models. Retained Search is a strategic, mutually committed engagement for mission-critical hires. Talent Partner is fractional embedded recruiting for teams in active scaling mode: Filament becomes your internal ATS (replacing standalone subscriptions that can run upwards of $20,000 per year), and includes a client-branded careers page hosted on Filament. Contingent is standard per-role placement, backed by our replacement guarantee. See full engagement details for the structure that fits your stage and hiring volume.
For climatech teams hiring 3 or more senior roles in a window, Talent Partner is typically the strongest fit. It is the most cost-effective structure for multi-role hiring windows, and includes a specialist recruiter on the desk for every role, without the long-term commitment of a full-time Head of Talent.