Expert Program Manager - Insights & Intelligence - Location Flexible
Oakland, CA, US, 94612
Requisition ID # 169836
Job Category: Project / Program Management
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Business Unit: Electric Engineering
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Location: Oakland; Alameda; Alta; American Canyon; Angels Camp; Antioch; Auberry; Auburn; Avenal; Avila Beach; Bakersfield; Balch Camp; Bay Point; Bear Valley; Belden; Bellota; Belmont; Benicia; Berkeley; Brentwood; Brisbane; Buellton; Burney; Buttonwillow; Calistoga; Campbell; Canyon Dam; Canyondam; Capitola; Caruthers; Chico; Clearlake; Clovis; Coalinga; Colusa; Concord; Concord; Corcoran; Cottonwood; Cupertino; Daly City; Danville; Davis; Dinuba; Downieville; Dublin; Emeryville; Eureka; Fairfield; Folsom; Fort Bragg; Fortuna; Fremont; French Camp; Fresno; Fresno; Fulton; Garberville; Geyserville; Gilroy; Goodyear; Grass Valley; Guerneville; Half Moon Bay; Hayward; Hinkley; Hollister; Holt; Huron; Jackson; Kerman; King City; Lakeport; Lemoore; Lincoln; Linden; Livermore; Lodi; Loomis; Los Banos; Lower Lake; Madera; Magalia; Manteca; Manton; Mariposa; Martell; Marysville; Maxwell; Menlo Park; Merced; Meridian; Millbrae; Milpitas; Modesto; Monterey; Montgomery Creek; Morgan Hill; Morro Bay; Moss Landing; Mountain View; Napa; Needles; Newark; Newman; Novato; Oakdale; Oakhurst; Oakley; Olema; Orinda; Orland; Oroville; Palo Alto; Palo Cedro; Paradise; Parkwood; Paso Robles; Petaluma; Pioneer; Pismo Beach; Pittsburg; Placerville; Pleasant Hill; Point Arena; Potter Valley; Quincy; Rancho Cordova; Red Bluff; Redding; Richmond; Ridgecrest; Rio Vista; Rocklin; Roseville; Round Mountain; Sacramento; Salida; Salinas; San Bruno; San Carlos; San Francisco; San Francisco; San Jose; San Luis Obispo; San Mateo; San Rafael; San Ramon; San Ramon; Sanger; Santa Cruz; Santa Maria; Santa Nella; Santa Rosa; Selma; Shaver Lake; Sonoma; Sonora; South San Francisco; Springville; Stockton; Storrie; Taft; Tracy; Turlock; Twain; Ukiah; Vacaville; Vallejo; Walnut Creek; Wasco; Watsonville; West Sacramento; Wheatland; Whitmore; Willits; Willow Creek; Willows; Windsor; Winters; Woodland; Yuba City
Position Summary
PG&E is seeking a strategic professional with strong engineering, regulatory, or operations experience to join Electric Risk and Compliance as an Expert Program Manager – Insights & Intelligence. In this role, you will help leaders stay ahead of emerging regulatory, compliance, and operational risks by turning complex information into clear, decision‑ready insights.
You will lead Electric Risk and Compliance’s approach to regulatory and compliance intelligence, using analytics, visualization, and responsibly applied AI to integrate regulatory requirements, enforcement trends, industry signals, and internal risk data. Success in this role requires strong engineering, regulatory, or operations judgment to help leaders understand what is changing, why it matters, and what action may be needed.
This role goes beyond traditional analytics or reporting. You will provide structured interpretation, synthesis, and prioritization of complex inputs—using analytical and visualization tools to support technical, regulatory, and operational insight development, reduce ambiguity, surface emerging risks earlier, and support informed leadership decisions. Your work will directly support executive and officer‑level discussions and strengthen PG&E’s proactive compliance posture.
The selected candidate must live within PG&E's service territory, and will be exptected to work in the office 2-3 times a week.
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. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed towards the middle or entry point of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.
A reasonable salary range is:
Minimum Base Salary (Bay Area) $129,000.00
Mid Base Salary (Bay Area) $168,000.00
Maximum Base Salary (Bay Area) $207,000.00
Minimum Base Salary (California) $123,000.00
Mid Base Salary (California) $160,000.00
Maximum Base Salary (California) $197,000.00
Responsibilities
Build Compliance & Regulatory Intelligence
- Design and continuously improve Electric’s framework for compliance and regulatory intelligence, including standards, methods, and governance.
- Integrate regulatory obligations, enforcement trends, industry developments, and internal risk signals into a cohesive intelligence view for leadership.
- Use analytics and visualization tools to support technical, regulatory, and operational insight development, trend identification, and leadership visibility.
- Ensure consistency, clarity, and rigor in how insights are generated, visualized, and communicated across the organization.
Integrate Emerging Risks & Regulatory Trends
- Synthesize emerging regulatory, enforcement, and industry signals from partner teams into a clear leadership view.
- Use analytics and well‑governed AI to detect patterns and surface early risk themes.
- Apply engineering, regulatory, or operations judgment to clarify implications, urgency, and impact.
- Partner across Compliance Strategy, Regulatory Affairs, Legal, Operations, and Risk to align signals and interpretations.
Deliver Executive‑Ready Insights
- Develop repeatable insight products such as regulatory briefs, intelligence updates, executive summaries, and interactive Power BI views.
- Present insights in concise, layered formats tailored to executive and senior leadership audiences.
- Frame information around material risks, tradeoffs, and decision points—not just data or activity.
Enable Governance & Leadership Decision‑Making
- Support leadership forums by providing early visibility into priority risks, regulatory themes, and cross‑functional dependencies.
- Use visual analytics and dashboards to help leaders quickly understand trends, emerging issues, and areas requiring attention.
- Convene cross‑functional discussions to align understanding, resolve ambiguity, and surface key implications.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders by proactively elevating insights that warrant attention or action.
- Assess commitments and recommend technically and regulatorily sound containment and countermeasures.
Ensure Quality, Integrity & Credibility
- Establish documentation, definitions, and quality standards to support audit‑ready, defensible insights.
- Ensure AI and analytics use aligns with data governance, regulatory expectations, and ethical standards.
- Validate accuracy, consistency, and traceability of information used in leadership discussions.
- Apply disciplined review practices to ensure insights meet executive and regulatory scrutiny.
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, with a strong background in engineering, regulatory, or operations environments.
- 8 years of related experience or equivalent
Desired Qualifications
- PhD or Master’s degree in Engineering, Data Analytics, or related field.
- Demonstrated ability to identify trends across complex information and translate them into actionable insights.
- Ability to use analytics and visualization tools to translate technical, regulatory, and operational complexity into decision‑ready insights.
- Experience integrating insights into compliance strategy, performance improvement, risk mitigation, and operational decision processes.
- Experience in utility engineering, regulatory compliance, or operations, with the ability to apply sound judgment to ambiguous or emerging issues.
- Demonstrated critical thinking and the ability to navigate ambiguity with structure, judgment, and clarity.
- Proven ability to collaborate across diverse functions and influence enterprise‑wide understanding and priorities.
- Professional Engineer (P.E.)
- Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional (CCEP)
- Lean Six Sigma Certification
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
Nearest Major Market: San Francisco
Nearest Secondary Market: Oakland