Director, Speed-to-Power, Service Planning & Design

Requisition # 173131

Job Category:
Maintenance / Construction / Operations

Job Level: Director/Chief

Business Unit:
Strategy & Growth

Work Type:
Hybrid

Job Location:

Oakland

The Strategy and Growth functional area is dedicated to long-term strategic and infrastructure planning. With electricity demand expected to double over the next 15 years, we’re building an energy system of the future for the world’s fourth-largest economy. It includes Energy Policy and Procurement, Strategy and Innovation, Integrated Long-Term Planning, and the Commercial Growth Organization.

The Director, Speed to Power—Flexibility Solutions is responsible for leading strategic initiatives that optimize and accelerate interconnection timelines, minimize uncertainty, and reduce execution risks across all commercial sectors.

This Director’s experiences and integral involvement with large-scale energy customers will be the critical inputs to develop those strategic initiatives that enable a flexible prioritization of how the energy load is delivered. Developing programs that enable several delivery systems, such as on-site storage, software management, etc., accelerates access to power. This Director will understand how these “flexible load” methods can bypass queue bottlenecks while preventing rate hikes.

The Director will work cross-functionally to ensure that flexibility-based strategies are seamlessly integrated across planning, engineering, and delivery, while maintaining a strong focus on customer outcomes and long-term grid resilience.

The Director oversees, coordinates, and supports multifaceted projects to streamline approvals, interconnection processes, and ensure efficient project execution.

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.

The Director, Speed-to-Power—Flexibility Solutions will report to the Senior Vice President, Commercial Growth Organization; and will build the team necessary to execute the mission.

• Accelerate In-Service Dates (ISDs) by enabling customers to connect ahead of full network build out using interim, flexible solutions.
• Lead commercialization and go-to-market efforts for flexibility solutions that unlock grid capacity and improve speed-to-power for large loads.
  • Responsibilities include planning, needs analysis, capturing voice of customer, establishing commercial terms, customer outreach, negotiations, and ensuring operational readiness and high-quality service.
• Collaborate across teams to develop, test, and implement flexibility-based connection strategies. This includes launching and scaling programs such as Flex Connect (distribution) and T Flex (transmission) that allow customers to adjust load profiles to avoid network constraints until upgrades are completed.
• Enable successful project execution by coordinating activities across planning, engineering, and delivery teams to enhance project health and speed-to-power outcomes.
• Monitor and report on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) related to interconnection timelines and grid flexibility, providing actionable insights to senior leadership and stakeholders.
• Identify regulatory and policy barriers affecting speed‑to‑power initiatives and advocate for solutions through engagement with industry groups, regulators, and government agencies.
• Develop and manage risk mitigation strategies to reduce execution uncertainty and ensure compliance with safety and reliability standards throughout project delivery.
• This role requires regular travel throughout our service territory to support customer engagement, strengthen cross‑functional collaboration, and provide on‑the‑ground coordination needed to advance projects, address challenges, and drive successful implementation of flexibility and interconnection solutions.

• Strategic problem solving and analytical thinking to address complex energy and infrastructure challenges.
• Adaptability and resilience in dynamic regulatory and operational environments.
• Collaboration and partnership‑building across…