Principal Transportation Electrification Strategic Analyst Location Oakland, California;

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Requisition ID # 159909

Job Category: Business Operations / Strategy

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Engineering, Planning & Strategy

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

The Clean Energy Transportation (CET) group is focused on accelerating the adoption of clean vehicles in California. CET leads a $0.5B portfolio of transportation electrification (TE) programs to increase the adoption of clean vehicles in California as we work to address one of the largest contributors to climate change – and we need a motivated, organized strategic thinker to help us determine how to expand this portfolio. We serve PG&E’s customers by deploying electric vehicle programs to increase access to charging infrastructure, reduce total cost of electric vehicle ownership, educating our customers and pursuing innovative R&D on the future of transportation electrification, focused on vehicle-grid-integration.

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 clean energy transportation.

Position Summary

CET’s Strategy and Policy (S&P) team creates, tests, and advocates for evidence-based clean energy transportation solutions by spearheading pilot projects, policy frameworks, tailored customer offerings, and stakeholder engagement. Our team develops, iterates, and executes on PG&E’s strategy to connect 3 million electric vehicles (EV) to the grid by 2030 and enabling at least 550MW of flexible load from vehicle-grid-integration (VGI) applications.

To do this, the team is focused on the following five pillars below:

• Build: reimagining how we build the transmission and distribution grid to enable mass EV adoption,

• Deploy: strategizing how we can enable and deploy VGI at scale,

• Invest: identifying how we ensure the state meets ambitious charging infrastructure targets and developing new programs to ensure we invest in all of our communities,

• Serve: working to serve our EV customers in a way that inspires joy and builds trust; and,

• Create: creating a repeatable and scalable pathway to enable widespread electrification via partnerships and policy advocacy.

This role will lead the Build workstream, focusing on the transmission and distribution system. The successful candidate will work cross-functionally with internal teams (principally Distribution Planning) to identify solutions to serve TE customers in today’s constrained grid while planning for a future that can support 3M EVs by 2030. The role will also be our external spokesperson working with industry stakeholders to gather TE data and regulatory stakeholders to develop long-term policy solutions that enable planning for a grid that will enable mass EV adoption. We are looking for an innovative, problem solver that will be able to work navigate both internal and external stakeholders building consensus and developing novel solutions to grid challenges.

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: $136,000

Bay Area Maximum: $232,000

Job Responsibilities

• Work with cross-functional groups to develop innovative solutions to address grid constraints in the short, medium and long-term to enable PG&E to meet the goal of 3M EVs by 2030.

• Develop and execute strategy to enable proactive grid investment to support TE growth, including external engagement with industry stakeholders and developing EV infrastructure adoption forecasts by customer segments (e.g. public DC FC vs Fleet adoption) and the load curves today as well as assumptions of how charging will change by 2030.

• Engage in key regulatory proceedings at the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) including leading PG&E’s response to the upcoming Transportation Electrification Proactive Planning track of the Transportation Electrification Policy and Infrastructure Order Institute Rulemaking (OIR) and act as EV subject matter expert supporting the High Distribution Energy Resources OIR.

• Interact and partner with key regulatory agencies, including the CPUC (see above), CEC, CARB, industry groups and key market players to influence key decision makers and policy direction. An initial focus of this role will be to work with closely with these agencies to develop a strategy to guide infrastructure investment to areas with distribution capacity and data sharing with CARB to better refine fleet electrification plans.

• Leverage PG&E’s existing PG&E Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) related to the Build workstream focused on reducing the pipeline of capacity projects to identify root causes and ideate on ways to improve the performance of these metrics, with the goal of reducing customer delays due to capacity and increasing long-term funding to support TE growth.

• Develops executive and Board level materials and presents findings and recommendations to senior leaders to gain agreement.

• Works with senior management to drive strategic planning and decision making.

• Manages major cross-functional projects and initiatives

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, 8 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 transportation electrification

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