Director, Speed to Power--Flexibility Solutions

Requisition # 173586

Job Category:
Business Operations / Strategy;
Customer Support / 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: the State of California. The Strategy and Growth team spans Energy Policy and Procurement, Strategy and Innovation, Integrated Long-Term Planning, and the Commercial Growth Organization.

This role will sit within the Commercial Growth Organization and support our efforts to accelerate affordable load growth and deliver an end-to-end customer experience that earns the trust and enthusiastic endorsement of our customers.

We expect the Director, Speed to Power—Flexibility Solutions to accelerate speed to power for large load customers by unlocking capacity to bring forward in-service-dates by years. Building upon PG&E’s leadership across demand response, Virtual Power Plant (VPP) and storage, we intend to move quickly to scale the next generation of flexibility programs and prove utilities and customers can work together to deliver safe, dispatchable, reliable, local resources.

Success in this role will help PG&E compete and win new loads by reducing interconnection timelines, minimizing execution risk and keeping our commitment to deliver rate-reducing load growth for all our customers.

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

The Director will help design, commercialize, sell and scale flexibility programs that access diverse resources such as compute from data centers, EV charging load management EV, customer-sited storage and residential VPPs. Internal

This Director’s experiences and integral involvement with large-scale energy customers will be the critical inputs to develop solutions that are economically viable for customers and robust enough to meet stringent utility reliability standards.

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 at the Oakland Headquarters, based on business need.

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 buildout through innovative interim flexible solutions that balance customer needs, grid reliability, and operational readiness.
• Lead the commercialization, product strategy, and go-to-market execution for speed-to-power and grid flexibility solutions, translating technical capabilities into scalable customer offerings that unlock grid capacity and create value for both customers and the company.
• Responsibilities include market assessment, customer segmentation, business case development, needs analysis, voice-of-customer programs, product positioning, pricing and commercial framework development, contract and commercial term negotiations, customer outreach, stakeholder engagement, and ensuring operational readiness for successful launch and scale.
• Drive adoption and revenue realization by developing commercialization roadmaps, customer engagement strategies, performance metrics, and continuous improvement plans for flexibility offerings.

• Own the end-to-end development and commercialization lifecycle of flexibility solutions, from concept development and pilot design through market launch, operational integration, customer onboarding, and program expansion.
• Collaborate across teams to develop, test, and implement flexibility-based…