Senior Strategic Building Electrification Analyst

Requisition ID # 163895 

Job Category: Business Operations / Strategy 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Engineering, Planning & Strategy

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

Utility Partnerships & Innovation (UPI) is responsible for the creation of transformative, scalable solutions to interlocking utility challenges through the development of third-party partnerships and the deployment of new technology that directly accelerates PG&E’s long-term strategy.  The Electrification & Decarbonization team within UP&I is focused on the development, creation, and implementation of transformative, scalable solutions to drive the vehicle and building electric transition. This includes regulatory, strategy development, stakeholder outreach, and program design, development, management and implementation of various infrastructure, customer incentives, rates, and future programs.

We focus on safety and quality, invest in our team’s success, solve problems, and strive to be better, work as an integrated team, and build trusted relationships. We collaborate and are intellectually curious. We are looking to collaborate with passionate, thoughtful people who want to make a real impact. Come join our team and help drive the transition to an electrified California.

Position Summary

PG&E’s Building Electrification & Efficiency Strategy (BE&ES) team is tasked with iterating and executing on PG&E’s strategy that recognizes building electrification as one of the least cost ways for PG&E to achieve a net zero energy system by 2040 – five years ahead of California’s carbon neutrality goal. Achieving this goal will require a holistic plan for PG&E to electrify buildings that supports our customers, manages energy affordability, and meets our climate goals.

To execute on this strategy, the BE&ES team will focus on these strategic workstreams:

• Build:  reimagining how we build and plan for integrated electric and gas systems to support building electrification at scale,
• Create: creating a repeatable and scalable pathway to enable widespread electrification via partnerships and policy advocacy,

• Invest: investing in sustainable funding approaches that can benefit all customers to enable PG&E and California’s vision of an equitable, affordable, decarbonized, and resilient state,

• Serve:  working to serve the electrification customer experience in a way that inspires joy and builds trust; and, 
• Deploy:  strategizing how we can enable and deploy interoperable pro-electrification technologies at scale.

This role will primarily support the Create and Invest workstreams, providing strategic planning, analysis, development of strategies and policy positions to further regulatory and financial pathways that enable building electrification at scale. The successful candidate must be comfortable communicating with internal leaders, other IOUs, the CPUC, and other intervenors in regulatory proceedings, and possess the ability to support the development of the appropriate communication materials for any of those stakeholders. The candidate must have strong analytical skills and the ability to solve unique and complex strategic issues and problems. This person must also be comfortable working both autonomously and in cross-functional teams. Finally, the ideal candidate must demonstrate high accountability, strong organizational and project management skills, leadership strength, and be energized and passionate about learning.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The preferred work location is Oakland, CA.

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 between the entry point and the middle of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.​ This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs. 

A reasonable salary range is:​

Bay Area Minimum: $102,000

Bay Area Maximum: $152,000

Job Responsibilities

Strategic Analysis

• Construct and maintain strategic analytic models and tools to forecast BE adoption, analyze regulatory and financial impacts and other relevant industry data to support program and strategy development
• Develop methodology to translate strategic vision into program decisions and operational activities
• Conduct and use research and data to shape products, direction or program plans. May include targeted customer research.

Policy Development

• Develop, coordinate, implement and communicate evidence-based BE policy positions
• Create materials that will be presented to key regulatory agencies, including CPUC, CEC, CARB and industry groups and key market players to influence key decision makers and policy direction
• Support (as needed) PG&E response to external activity (e.g. legislation, party motions, formal or informal inquiries)

• Work with Directors and Managers across functions to influence decisions

Qualifications:

Minimum:

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Business, Finance, Sociology, Policy, Engineering, Physics, or other related fields or equivalent work experience
• Job-related experience, 4 years

Desired:

• Advanced degree in engineering, public policy, business administration, or environmental science/energy or similar degrees
• Experience in a regulated environment
• Subject matter expertise in building electrification
• Understanding of California regulatory context, specifically related to building electrification and decarbonization
• Familiarity with retail and wholesale electric markets
• Familiarity with regulated utility financial structures
• Proficiency with tools and methods for project management and continuous improvement
• You enjoy working with others, have invested time and effort into building your communication skills, and have experience collaborating across different stakeholders.

Desired Characteristics:

• Proficiency in managing multiple assignments simultaneously, prioritizing, and delivering quality results on time
• Can effectively communicate with credibility, confidence, and clarity on complex ideas to diverse audiences using a variety of media
• Flexibility in project communication, execution, and problem solving, particularly when coordinating across various stakeholders
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, multi-stakeholder environment
• Has a bias toward action
• Innately curious
• Converts ambiguity into structure and coherent strategies

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