Chief Counsel, Rates

Requisition ID # 166851 

Job Category: Legal 

Job Level: Attorney

Business Unit: Gen Counsel, Ethics, Risk & Compliance

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

The Law Department provides timely, efficient and business-focused legal services to the company. The Rates legal team provides regulatory support across a broad spectrum of matters pertaining to ratemaking, revenue, and rate design.   

Position Summary

The Chief Counsel (Rates) Attorney will report to the Managing Counsel for Rates.  The Chief Counsel will be responsible for providing legal advice and representation to clients in various aspects of the company's operations, depending on the rate matters at issue.  The Chief Counsel will be expected to lead, and actively manage project teams in, regulatory proceedings at the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), including the Company’s General Rate Case. 

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The assigned work location is the Oakland General Office(OGO)

Reporting Relationship

Reports to the Managing Counsel -- Rates.

Job Responsibilities

• Represent PG&E in regulatory proceedings before the CPUC, including hearings, workshops, written submissions and filings.
• Develop and implement regulatory strategy as part of a team that includes regulatory affairs and client representatives from policy and operational organizations.
• Manage project teams consisting of lawyers and client representatives on regulatory matters.
• Provide advice and counsel to management and project teams on legal issues and strategy.
• Prepare legal documents, including complex pleadings and Board materials.
• Manage and coordinate outside counsel, including outside counsel budget.

Leadership Qualities

PG&E expects its leaders to conduct themselves with the highest ethics and integrity and to embody specific leadership qualities.

Strategic Mindset

• Sees ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.
• Operates effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear.

A Leader in the Community and Industry

• Effectively builds formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization.
• Anticipates and balances the needs of multiple stakeholders.

Demonstrates Safety Leadership

• A safety champion in words and deeds with respect to both employee and public safety.
• Creating and maintaining a speak-up culture  free of retaliation.

Influences and Inspires

• Using various communications that convey a clear understanding of the needs of different audiences.
• Maneuvering comfortably through complex policy, process, and people-related dynamics.

Optimizes Team Performance

• Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.
• Creating a climate where people are developed and motivated to do their best to help the organization.

Values Inclusion and Respects Individual Differences

• Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.

Fiscally Responsible

• Interpreting and applying understanding of key financial indicators to make better business decisions.
• Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.

Leads Ethically and in a Compliant Manner

• Sponsoring and sustaining a high integrity speak-up corporate culture which prioritizes ethics, safety and compliance.
• Building on necessary level of industry, company and subject-matter expertise, including laws and regulations.

Provides a High Level of Customer Service

• Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.

Background Qualifications

Minimum

• Juris Doctor degree
• Experience as Attorney, 10 years
• Legal experience, post-JD-Juris Doctor, or other job-related, 13 years
• Law Bar admission, US

Desired

• Experience in legal matters, complex
• Law Bar admission, CA or, alternatively, Registered In-House Counsel permit, CA