Requisition ID # 155605 

Job Category: Customer Support / Operations 

Job Level: Director/Chief

Business Unit: Engineering, Planning & Strategy

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: San Jose

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 South Bay Delivery Program Management Office (PMO) within UPI will lead creation and execution of the breakthrough outcomes in delivering for the South Bay. Specifically, the Director of Decarbonization will develop and execute an ambitious 6-year program toward net-zero by 2030 as a proof point in San Jose for PG&Es long-term decarbonization goals.

The PMO is a new organization which will require leadership in bringing several internal and external pieces together to achieve ambitious net-zero goals. This work is highly cross-functional by nature and requires extensive collaboration across PG&E, including EP&S, UPI, Local Customer Engagement, Strategy, Finance, Legal, and Regulatory Affairs organizations; and with external partners, including the City of San Jose, regulators, vendors, financial partners, and stakeholders. The successful candidate must develop strong relationships across each of these groups to ensure that PG&E’s interests and our customers’ and partners’ needs are reflected in the decarbonization solutions we provide.

Position Summary

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to lead a cross-functional matrixed team at first, until workstreams are built out with headcount to execute the work.

Reporting Relationship

This position reports to the Senior Director, South Bay Delivery, PMO. This is a net new position; the Director will build a team in collaboration with the Senior Director.

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.

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: $174,000

Bay Area Maximum: $296,000

&/OR

California Minimum: $165,000

California Maximum: $281,000

Job Responsibilities

• Develop and fully own the high-level strategic vision for localized Decarbonization, as part of the South Bay Delivery PMO breakthrough outcomes.
• Adhere to plan, applying our Lean Operating System fundamentals, creating an operating rhythm that drives daily, weekly, and monthly performance.
• Create an exciting and productive environment to which employees want to join and contribute.
• Foster team engagement: model and encourage speak-up behaviors on team.
• Promote a culture of safety and ensure safety and ethics compliance.
• Administer and efficiently deliver all aspects of current and future decarbonization programs in San Jose, including financial performance, compliance, operations, stakeholder management, and customer service.
• Identify and understand internal and external customer segments and needs; associated technologies, business strategies, and channels; and overall business risks and opportunities.
• Develop strategies for regulatory/legislative policy, and business objectives and foster a collaborative working relationship with regulatory agencies in order to ensure successful outcomes for PG&E.
• Once team is developed, oversee performance management, including maintaining formal job responsibility documents, individual goals and development plans, and ensuring the team is aligned with the company and organization’s vision, goals, values, strategies, and operating plan, drive accountability and report on results to UPI and senior leadership.

Knowledge Skills Abilities

• Strong leadership skills demonstrated through development of new initiatives while advocating for and managing significant scope and budgets.
• Ability to encourage employees to identify work process and system improvements, incorporate benchmarking and best practices, champion and overcome resistance to and facilitate change.
• Ability to develop working relationships with customers and business partners ensuring that work plans and operations are coordinated, aligned and support department and company goals and objectives.
• Knowledge of regulations, regulatory agencies, legislative bodies and the regulatory and legislative environment that impact decarbonization goals
• Knowledge of current and past decarbonization programs, technology intersection and rate design
• Ability to represent the company with external stakeholders (e.g., regulators, customers or industry representatives), as needed.
• Ability to work constructively, drive progress and resolve challenges across a large and complex organization.
• Ability to work in a sometimes-ambiguous environment
• Ability to make intense, demanding work fun.

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.

A Leader in the Community and Industry

• Effectively building formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization.
• Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.

Demonstrates Safety Leadership

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

Background Qualifications

Minimum

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Engineering or equivalent work experience
• 10 years of related work experience

Desired

• Leadership experience, 3 years
• Experience in a regulated environment
• Experience managing a team, including development and performance management.
• Experience managing significant budgets.
• MBA or Advanced degree in engineering, policy, law, business, or similar
• Utility and/or clean energy programs (e.g., distributed generation, storage) industry experience
• Product and/or technology experience, particularly for complex retail consumer products, and process and/or product improvement experience
• Excellent communication skills and experience engaging effectively with a range of stakeholders (e.g., technical staff or C-level executives).
• Experience building a cohesive, motivated and talented team – to drive employee engagement and foster the career development of team members.