Mr. Elon Musk has been the Chief Executive Officer since 2008 and Director since 2004 of the company. Previously, he co-founded PayPal, and Zip2 Corporation, and was Chairman of the Board of SolarCity Corporation. Currently, he also serves as the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technology Officer, and Chairman of Space Exploration Technologies Corporation since 2002; Chief Executive Officer of Twitter Inc since 2022; and Director of Endeavor Group Holdings Inc since April 2021.

Mr. Vaibhav Taneja has been the Chief Financial Officer of Tesla since August 2023. He also serves as the Chief Accounting Officer of the company since March 2019. Previously, Mr. Taneja served as Corporate Controller of the company from May 2018 to March 2019. From February 2017 to May 2018, he served as Assistant Corporate Controller at Tesla. Earlier, Mr. Taneja served in several finance and accounting roles at SolarCity Corp from March 2016 to February 2017.

Ms. Robyn M. Denholm has been the Chairman of the company since November 2018. Prior to this, she served as the Chief Financial Officer and Head of Strategy of Telstra Corporation Limited from October 2018 to June 2019, and Chief Operations Officer from January 2017 to October 2018. Ms. Denholm also served as the Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Financial and Operations Officer from 2007 to 2016 at Juniper Networks, Inc. Prior to that, she served in various executive roles at Sun Microsystems Inc from January 1996 to August 2007, at Toyota Motor Corporation Australia and Arthur Andersen & Company in various finance roles. Currently, she also serves as an Operating Partner of Blackbird Ventures since 2021.