Vice President, Exploration
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Job overview
Explore Tech is applying its drill-targeting software across critical minerals while building an exploration portfolio. The Vice President, Exploration will set exploration strategy, lead programs from target generation through resource definition, build the exploration team, and decide where the company explores and drills. The role reports to the CEO and works with founders, scientists, and engineers to accelerate exploration and characterization.
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Full job description
We’re accelerating the pace of mineral discovery. Our drill targeting software has gone 8 for 8 hitting mineralized targets, a significant improvement over industry standards. We are now applying it across critical minerals and building our own exploration portfolio. In this role, you’ll lead that effort: setting our exploration strategy, building the team, and making the discoveries. You’ll own the exploration pipeline from target generation through drill testing and resource definition, using our software and computational tools to speed up exploration and characterization and make faster, smarter decisions in the field. You’ll report to the CEO, work directly with the founders, our scientists, and our engineers, and decide where ExploreTech explores and where it drills. What You’ll Do
- Set our exploration strategy, including target commodities, regions, deposit styles, and project priorities
- Lead exploration programs from target generation through drill testing, resource definition, and handoff
- Build and lead the exploration team of geologists, geophysicists, and field staff
- Evaluate and acquire properties, and build relationships with prospectors, junior companies, and majors
- Own exploration budgets, contractors, permitting, and field logistics
- Work with our scientists and engineers to apply our computational tools to target generation, ranking, and real-time field decisions
- Set safety, environmental, and community engagement standards for all field programs
- Report results and technical findings to the executive team, board, investors, and partners
About You
- Bachelor’s in geology or a related field; Master’s or PhD in economic geology preferred
- 10+ years of mineral exploration experience, including significant time on one or more critical minerals or base and precious metals commodities
- A record of discovery or major resource growth, and of leading exploration teams and budgets
- Strong command of ore deposit models across multiple deposit styles, plus structural geology, geochemistry, and geophysics
- Comfortable with 3D modeling, data-driven exploration, and adopting new technology
- Able to travel extensively to remote parts of the US and world
Bonus Points For
- Master’s or PhD in economic geology
- Professional registration (P.Geo, CPG, or equivalent)
- Experience in both greenfields and brownfields exploration
How this job compares
Set against the 894 open Geologist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$91–159K/yr51 salary ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 62 open Geologist jobs in California and 894 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Geologist postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 823 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 786 of the 894 open Geologist jobs (88%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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