Chief Executive Officer (CEO) (Denver)

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Compensation

  • Base pay range: $200,000.00/yr - $400,000.00/yr
  • Additional compensation types: Annual Bonus and Stock options

About our client

Morio is a stealth-stage AI venture emerging from a global leader in energy and industrial innovation. Backed by a committed corporate anchor investor and operating at the intersection of AI, chemistry, and decarbonization, the company is building a category-defining platform to accelerate compound discovery and optimizationstarting with critical challenges in energy and emissions.

This is not an idea-stage startup. The venture has:

  • A validated technical foundation
  • A paid commercial pilot with a Fortune 500 energy partner
  • A multidisciplinary founding team in place (interim CEO, technical leads, advisors)

What is missing is a full-time founding CEO to drive the next phase: refining the business model, leading the fundraising, and building a world-class team to take the product from 01 and beyond.

About the role

As CEO , the individual will take the reins from the interim executive sponsor and lead the company into its next chapter: from early traction to scaled commercial impact. This is a rare ground-floor opportunity to lead a well-positioned spin-outde-risked, but still early enough to make it their own.

The CEO will have full flexibility to shape:

  • Company vision, product roadmap, and GTM strategy
  • Team composition (retaining or evolving current staff)
  • Operating structure and geographic footprint

The CEO will operate with the speed of a startup, but with insider access to a top-tier corporate ecosystem for early traction, data, and domain expertise.

Key Responsibilities

  • Define the mission, value prop, and market strategy to win in the energy sector firstwith optionality for future verticals (chemicals, climate-tech, etc.)
  • Attract, hire, and retain an exceptional executive and technical team
  • Lead capital raises from VCs, strategic investors, and non-dilutive sources (e.g., government, climate finance)
  • Land lighthouse customers, scale commercial pilots, and close strategic partnerships
  • Deliver key milestones across tech, revenue, and team-buildingtoward Seed, Series A, and beyond

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate may have:

  • Led a venture-backed AI, deep tech, or ChemTech startup from concept to early traction or beyond
  • Comfort working alongside AI/ML, LLM, or computational chemistry teams (you dont need to code, but must speak the language)
  • Closed institutional rounds (Seed to Series B+) and built relationships with VCs, strategics, or mission-driven investors
  • Proven track record launching novel tech products and iterating based on real customer feedback
  • Can inspire scientists, corporate execs, and investors alike
  • Comfortable navigating cross-border teams, markets, and customers

Compensation

  • Total Compensation: USD $200,000 $400,000 (base salary, equity value, and performance bonuses)

Seniority level

  • Executive

Employment type

  • Full-time

Job function

  • Business Development, Strategy/Planning, and Project Management

Industries

  • Services for Renewable Energy, Environmental Services, and Technology, Information and Media

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