Careers
Our economic development team brings diverse expertise to the table. See below for job openings and how to apply.
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Position Summary
The Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) leads the Rhode Island Commerce Corporation’s (Corporation) comprehensive marketing and tourism initiatives and oversees substantial annual budgets, including core operational funds and specialized grant allocations. The CMO will work with Corporation leadership to shape the narrative that attracts tourists, businesses, talent, and investment to the state, as well as the messaging and initiatives that will help support and grow Rhode Island-based businesses. This executive position manages multi-channel marketing strategies while directing a core team of marketing professionals and coordinating with regional tourism leaders.
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Position Summary
This position serves as a greeter, providing customer service, crowd management encouraging participation in our “Swipe and Win” contest and assisting visitors with utilizing the contest kiosk to enter for their chance to win a prize. The prize kiosk is located inside the Rhode Island Building on the grounds of the Eastern States Exposition at 1305 Memorial Avenue in West Springfield, MA, throughout the 17-day fair.
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Position Summary
The Grants and Financial Administration Manager will directly support the Associate Controller – Financial and Human Resources Administration and ensure the timely completion of all federal grant/award reporting, assist in federal program budget preparation and financial tracking against those budgets and ensure compliance with related terms and conditions, from a financial perspective. In addition, this role will perform all post award administrative activities for all Innovation programs that are administered by the Rhode Island Commerce Corporation (“The Corporation), serve as the lead on the Corporation’s overall effort certification process and act as a member of the internal audit and compliance committee.
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Position Summary
Incumbent in this position is responsible for administering and managing the corporation’s human resource department, programs and services, including recruitment, selection, employee relations, benefits administration, wellness, training and compliance with applicable federal and state laws and regulations; performs all other related work as required.
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Position Summary
Manage and actively maintain all Renewable Energy Programs of the Corporation including but not limited to small scale and commercial scale renewable energy, clean energy internship, energy storage, community renewables, and brownfields solar programs.
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Position Summary
This position serves as the senior building operations manager of the Rhode Island building, overseeing the evening building operations manager, facility vendors including the cleaning team, assisting exhibitors as needed, opening the building and making related announcements on the address system in the morning, assisting with crowd management at busy times, regularly walking the inside and outside of building to ensure everything is in working order and safe, providing backup to customer service staff during their lunch break, overseeing any technical issue with promotional kiosk system, and performing other duties as necessary at the Rhode Island Building on the grounds of the Eastern States Exposition at 1305 Memorial Avenue in West Springfield, MA, throughout the 17-day fair.
Rhode Island Commerce Corporation is an at-will employer; no employment contracts exist.
The Rhode Island Commerce Corporation (the ‘Corporation’) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Corporation does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by applicable law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. The Corporation will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.