Principal Manager, Systems Innovation

Join the Clean Energy Revolution. Become a Principal Manager, Systems Innovation at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of the power grid through innovation, advanced technologies, and forward‑looking strategies
. In this role, you will lead the development and adoption of next‑generation grid capabilities—identifying where new technologies can deliver the greatest value and defining strategies to integrate them into SCE’s long‑term system vision. As a trusted technical and strategic leader, you will partner across engineering, operations, IT, and regulatory teams to translate innovation into scalable, real‑world outcomes that advance SCE’s objectives for reliability, affordability, wildfire risk reduction, and deep decarbonization.

Your work will help ensure SCE evolves its grid to meet the demands of a clean energy future—adopting new technologies thoughtfully, strategically, and  you’re motivated by solving complex challenges and leading the transformation of critical infrastructure, this is your opportunity to help build the grid of the future.

As a Principal Manager, Systems Innovation
, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?

• Shapes SCE's overall strategy, leveraging analytical, problem-solving, critical thinking and creativity skills to help achieve the overall business objectives.
• Defines, articulates and adjusts corporate strategy and goals based on current and potential direction of the market, competitive landscape, and financial position of the business.
• Directs the delivery against key metrics, milestones, KPIs, and contractual obligations for a portfolio of projects to encompass expectation setting and management against quality, time and financial objectives.
• Manages all elements of the corporate development process, including target identification, target cultivation, strategic rationale, valuation, due diligence, negotiations, deal strategy contract management, and integration.
• Leads and oversees active corporate development processes, including acquisitions, partnerships, and divestitures, informing and partnering with internal and external stakeholders throughout the process.
• Develops and actively manages strategic acquisition funnels and pipelines at the business unit and enterprise level.
• Oversees and manages the annual strategic planning process for SCE ensuring alignment with overall business objectives.
• Supports and contributes to the company's overall sustainability and ESG strategy, ensuring alignment with the company's business objectives.
• Leads and directs the creation, incubation, development, and commercialization of the company's new growth businesses.
• Designs and creates multiple innovation-led initiatives to improve workflow efficiency across the operations.
• A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

• Seven or more years of experience supervising a team of direct reports and/or project management.
• Experience in strategy/management consulting, venture capital, investment banking, or corporate strategy.

• Master’s degree or higher in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Data Science, Computer Science, or Business.
• Professional Engineering (PE) license or relevant advanced…