clean economy
Senior recruitment. Global reach.
About us
A specialist recruitment business for the clean economy
Verde Partners works across renewable energy, power & energy storage, clean transportation and sustainable infrastructure, helping businesses find experienced people for the roles that matter most.
Verde Partners was founded by experienced recruiters with over 20 years in the industry. We've worked across international markets and understand the challenges of finding senior people in specialist sectors. We believe good recruitment starts with knowing the market, asking the right questions and building lasting relationships. We're independent, deliberately focused and building Verde for the long term.
Sector Focus
Renewable Energy
Solar, wind, hydro, geothermal and bioenergy. We work with developers, investors, manufacturers and operators on the key hires that matter to projects and growth. Our work covers development, finance, engineering, construction, operations, asset management, sales and marketing. We specialize in finding experienced people who aren't actively looking for their next role.
Power & Energy Storage
Storage is changing how power is generated, moved and used. We work across batteries, transmission, distribution, grid technology and flexibility, finding the people behind increasingly complex projects and businesses. That can mean commercial and technical leadership, project development, engineering, finance, operations, sales or market-facing roles. It’s a fast-moving sector where experience is specific and the strongest people are rarely sitting in the obvious places. Finding them takes proper market knowledge, good research and a willingness to look beyond the usual recruitment channels.
Clean Transportation
Electric vehicles, charging, fleet electrification, rail and low-carbon transport. We work with the businesses and technologies changing how people and goods move, from growing companies to major infrastructure programs. Our work spans commercial leadership, engineering, operations, infrastructure, product, sales and marketing. These markets move quickly, and the people with the right experience are often already busy building something elsewhere. Reaching them means going beyond databases and job adverts.
Sustainable Infrastructure
Low-carbon buildings, industrial decarbonization, water, waste, heat networks and sustainable materials. We work with the companies turning ambitious plans into real projects. Our work covers the people who develop, finance, engineer, build, sell and operate them. When the skills you need could come from several different industries, knowing where to search matters.
How We Work
Over 20 years in recruitment, we’ve learned that the people who can genuinely build, change or grow a business rarely arrive neatly through a job posting or a database. Finding them starts with understanding the role beyond the job description — what really matters, where those people are likely to be succeeding and what might make the right person consider a move.
From there, we follow a clear, disciplined process to identify, approach and secure the people who best fit the brief. It’s a way of working refined over many years, built around good research, direct conversations and getting key hires right.
Define the Search
We start with the business, the team and what this key hire needs to achieve. We dig into the experience, character and track record the role really calls for — and build the search around that.
Map the Market
We map the companies, projects and markets where the right people are doing good work. Our experience helps us recognize what good looks like, where to find it and who is worth approaching.
Identify & Approach
Great people often aren’t looking. We search beyond adverts, databases and familiar networks to find the people the brief calls for — then approach them directly and start a conversation.
Speed Matters
A strong search should have momentum from the start. We keep things moving through clear communication, timely feedback and a focused process. Our aim is to reach an accepted offer within 30 days wherever circumstances allow.
Offer & Acceptance
The final stages deserve the same attention as the search itself. We manage compensation, references, the offer and any counteroffer risk, staying close to the process through acceptance, resignation and onboarding.
Recent Assignments
Commercial
Director
The client needed a commercial leader who understood growth, partnerships and the realities of delivering charging infrastructure. That combination narrowed the field quickly. We mapped talent across EV charging, fleet electrification, mobility and wider energy businesses, then approached people who were not actively looking. The person hired came from the EV charging market and had the mix of commercial ownership and hands-on delivery experience the client had struggled to find.
EV Charging — Amsterdam, Netherlands
Brief to accepted offer — 26 days
VP, Project Development
This was a senior development hire in a competitive Texas market. The brief called for deep utility-scale solar experience, strong local market knowledge and someone comfortable across land, permitting, interconnection and commercial development. Rather than stay inside the obvious developer pool, we widened the search across adjacent businesses and targeted experienced people directly. The successful hire was already working in the Texas solar market and brought the local development experience the role needed across land, permitting and interconnection.
Utility-Scale Solar — Austin, Texas, USA
Brief to accepted offer — 31 days
Project Engineer – BESS
Battery Storage — Hamburg, Germany
The challenge was finding one engineer with enough breadth across battery systems, power conversion, grid connection and hands-on project delivery. Plenty of candidates had part of the picture; very few had all of it. We mapped storage developers, integrators and power-technology businesses across the market and focused on engineers with practical project experience. The person appointed came from the storage sector and had practical experience across the technical disciplines the client needed, rather than expertise in just one area.
Brief to accepted offer — 37 days
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