Director, Speed-to-Power, Service Planning & Design

Requisition ID # 173131 

Job Category: Maintenance / Construction / Operations 

Job Level: Director/Chief

Business Unit: Strategy & Growth

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

The Strategy and Growth functional area is dedicated to long-term strategic and infrastructure planning. With electricity demand expected to double over the next 15 years, we’re building an energy system of the future for the world’s fourth-largest economy. It includes Energy Policy and Procurement, Strategy and Innovation, Integrated Long-Term Planning, and the Commercial Growth Organization.

Position Summary

The Director, Speed to Power—Flexibility Solutions is responsible for leading strategic initiatives that optimize and accelerate interconnection timelines, minimize uncertainty, and reduce execution risks across all commercial sectors.

This Director’s experiences and integral involvement with large-scale energy customers will be the critical inputs to develop those strategic initiatives that enable a flexible prioritization of how the energy load is delivered.  Developing programs that enable several delivery systems, such as on-site storage, software management, etc., accelerates access to power.  This Director will understand how these “flexible load” methods can bypass queue bottlenecks while preventing rate hikes.

The Director will work cross-functionally to ensure that flexibility-based strategies are seamlessly integrated across planning, engineering, and delivery, while maintaining a strong focus on customer outcomes and long-term grid resilience.

The Director oversees, coordinates, and supports multifaceted projects to streamline approvals, interconnection processes, and ensure efficient project execution.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The assigned work location will be within the PG&E Service Territory.

Reporting

The Director, Speed-to-Power—Flexibility Solutions will report to the Senior Vice President, Commercial Growth Organization; and will build the team necessary to execute the mission.

Job Responsibilities 

• Accelerate In-Service Dates (ISDs) by enabling customers to connect ahead of full network build out using interim, flexible solutions.
• Lead commercialization and go-to-market efforts for flexibility solutions that unlock grid capacity and improve speed-to-power for large loads.
  • Responsibilities include planning, needs analysis, capturing voice of customer, establishing commercial terms, customer outreach, negotiations, and ensuring operational readiness and high-quality service.
• Collaborate across teams to develop, test, and implement flexibility-based connection strategies. This includes launching and scaling programs such as FlexConnect (distribution) and T Flex (transmission) that allow customers to adjust load profiles to avoid network constraints until upgrades are completed.
• Enable successful project execution by coordinating activities across planning, engineering, and delivery teams to enhance project health and speed-to-power outcomes.
• Monitor and report on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) related to interconnection timelines and grid flexibility, providing actionable insights to senior leadership and stakeholders.
• Identify regulatory and policy barriers affecting speed-to-power initiatives and advocate for solutions through engagement with industry groups, regulators, and government agencies.
• Develop and manage risk mitigation strategies to reduce execution uncertainty and ensure compliance with safety and reliability standards throughout project delivery.
• This role requires regular travel throughout our service territory to support customer engagement, strengthen cross-functional collaboration, and provide on-the-ground coordination needed to advance projects, address challenges, and drive successful implementation of flexibility and interconnection solutions.

Key Competencies:

• Strategic problem solving and analytical thinking to address complex energy and infrastructure challenges.
• Adaptability and resilience in dynamic regulatory and operational environments.
• Collaboration and partnership-building across internal and external stakeholders.
• Effective project planning, prioritization and execution under tight deadlines.
• Demonstrated expertise in grid flexibility, interconnection, distributed energy solutions and large-scale project delivery.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive complex initiatives.
• Expert knowledge of California Public Utility Commission General Orders GO 95, 128 and 165 requirements and bargaining unit contracts.

Background Qualifications

Minimum

• Bachelors Degree in Business Administration or job-related discipline or equivalent experience.
• 8 years of job-related experience.
• 8 years of progressive leadership experience.
• 5 years of utility/construction/urban planning experience including experience with service planning, estimating, project management, technical customer service, and/or other relevant experience.

Desired 

• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Policy, Energy Management or related fields, is highly desirable.
• 9 years prior supervisory/managerial experience of geographically dispersed teams
• Experience managing bargaining unit employees

• Lean Six Sigma (LSS) certification, Green or Black Belt.
• Construction management certification.
• Project management professional – PMP.

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 translates 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 teams with a strong identity 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 safety, compliance, and ethics.
• 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 hometown, customer-centric solutions.

Compensation

PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity. 

We estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed within the reasonable compensation range of $195,000 to $264,000.  The decision will be made on a case-by-case basis.  This leadership role is also eligible for an annual Short Term Incentive Plan (STIP) award, as well as the Long-Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) grant.