Manager, Transmission Planning

The Opportunity

In the next 30 years, the world will transform every part of the built environment to be climate positive green infrastructure. But today’s renewable energy development process can’t move fast enough to meet global goals. Paces exists to change that. We are providing software and services to accelerate power development and unlocking one of the greatest opportunities of our time: transforming how infrastructure gets built and ensuring it’s built with renewable energy.

Paces is building the development engine for renewable infrastructure and power projects. Our Agentic AI automates early‑stage due diligence and pairs it with in‑house expertise to accelerate late‑stage diligence. The platform streamlines siting, interconnection, and permitting for renewable energy and data center developers, real estate firms, EV charging companies, and more.

We are building a team where people can proudly say their time at Paces is the most impactful, meaningful work of their career. Our amazing team in Brooklyn, New York includes incredible team members from tech companies like Meta AI, Deep Mind, Tesla, various high‑growth startups, as well as industry leaders from Total Energies, Con Edison and GE.

Reporting directly to the Head of Solutions, the Transmission Planning Director will lead a team and drive the technical methodology for transmission planning and market economics.

• Lead a team of transmission planning engineers and own the technical methodology; study assumptions, dispatch logic, contingency criteria, and analytical scope.
• Expand the platform from transmission planning into market economics; define how congestion analysis, dispatch dynamics, curtailment forecasting, and production cost modeling integrate with our existing power‑flow infrastructure.
• Evaluate and manage vendor relationships for market data and simulation tools, making build‑vs‑buy‑vs‑partner decisions on analytical capabilities.
• Own external credibility. Defend methodology to developers or utilities and provide confidence that Paces’ analysis will hold up against the utility’s formal study.
• Work directly with Product to shape the power product roadmap, translating developer needs, regulatory developments, and technical feasibility into prioritized product investments.
• Represent Paces externally as a domain expert at conferences, in industry working groups, and in customer conversations.
• Hire, develop, and mentor transmission planning engineers and market analysts, building a high‑agency team culture where engineering rigor and startup speed coexist.
• Partner with engineering leadership to define what is automated and what remains human‑in‑the‑loop, setting the standard for delivering in days what consultants deliver in weeks without compromising quality.

• 10+ years of experience spanning transmission planning and power markets with meaningful depth on both sides.
• Proven leadership experience managing engineers, setting methodology standards, and ensuring quality of analytical deliverables at an RTO/ISO, utility, consultancy, developer, or IPP.
• Deep expertise in steady‑state power flow analysis, contingency analysis, and transmission planning criteria (NERC TPL standards).
• Proficiency in PSS/E, TARA, Power World, PSLF, or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of nodal market mechanics: SCUC/SCED, LMP formation, transmission constraint pricing. Ability to connect a thermal violation in a planning model to a congestion event in the market.
• Experience across multiple RTO/ISO markets.
• Track record of translating technical analysis into business decisions such as site selection, interconnection strategy, investment cases, or regulatory proceedings.

• Operate at the intersection of grid physics and grid economics, having built expertise on both sides.
• Have strong opinions and are genuinely excited about how automation and AI can be applied to transmission planning and market analysis.
• Motivated by building new things rather than optimizing established processes at a large organization.
• Lead by raising the bar; care about technical quality while investing in…