Senior Counsel, Federal Regulatory Compliance

Requisition ID # 162778 

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 Strategic Transactions, Commercial Contracts, Competitive Issues and Customer team provides legal support for multiple functional areas and cross-functional teams across a broad spectrum of matters relating to privacy, compliance, transactions, regulatory, corporate real estate, competitive issues and PG&E customers.

Position Summary

Reporting Relationship

This position reports to the Managing Counsel of the Law Department’s Strategic Transactions, Commercial Contracts, Competitive Issues and Customer team.

Job Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain deep, substantive knowledge in multiple areas of the law, including the regulatory-related areas set out above.
• Develop and implement regulatory strategy as part of a team that includes regulatory affairs and representatives from policy and operational organizations.
• Provide advice and counsel to management and project teams on legal issues and strategy.
• Prepare and review 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

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

Demonstrates Safety Leadership

• A safety champion in words and deeds with respect to both employee and public safety.
• Maintaining an environment of open dialogue and 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 Diversity and Creates Inclusion

• 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.

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.  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:

Bay Area Minimum: $189,000

Bay Area Maximum: $323,000

Background Qualifications

Minimum

• Bachelor’s degree and Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school
• Ten (10) years of relevant legal experience, post-JD-Juris Doctor, or other job-related experience
• Experience as Attorney, 7 years
• Law Bar admission, US
• US state bar active member in good standing

Desired

• Licensed to practice law in California or Registered In-House Counsel permit, CA
• Strong legal research capabilities
• Experience working with senior leaders
• Experience in the energy sector
• Competence in litigating regulatory proceedings at CPUC
• Experience interacting with regulatory bodies and resolving government and intervenor actions, including cost allowability disputes
• Experience advising energy industry clients on regulatory issues related to various types of federal funding, as well as analyzing and drafting related company policies
• Experience advising energy industry clients on reporting requirements of U.S. DOE federal funding programs
• Experience analyzing FAR and other procurement regulations as well as the Uniform Guidance
• Experience litigating disputes between contractors and subcontractors and resolving cost allowability and business systems disputes
• Experience developing processes and procedures for regulatory requirements
• Experience managing outside and in-house legal resources
• Project management experience
• Public speaking and presentation skills
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
• Detail-oriented
• Ability to provide a high level of client service, build consensus, and influence across lines of business
• Business acumen and excellent business judgment
• Unquestionable integrity with personal and professional presence
• Ability to set priorities and to respond to changing demands from multiple internal and external source