Director - Grid Transformation

At ERCOT, our diverse and dynamic work environment provides a platform on which employees can work together to build the future of the Texas power grid and wholesale market utilizing the latest technologies and resources. We encourage you to join our talented, dedicated workforce to develop world‑class solutions for today and tomorrow’s energy challenges while learning new skills and growing your career.

ERCOT is committed to fostering inclusion at all levels of our company. It is the cornerstone of our corporate values of accountability, leadership, innovation, trust, and expertise. We know that individuals with a wide variety of talents, ideas, and experiences propel the innovation that drives our success. An inclusive and diverse workforce strengthens us and allows for a collaborative environment to solve the challenges that face our industry today and in the future.

The Texas electric power grid is undergoing rapid transformation with changes to the resource mix, tremendous load growth, decentralization of generation, electrification, emerging prosumers, and digitization.

Director, Grid Transformation is a visionary leader who oversees the Grid Research, Innovation & Transformation (GRIT) - programs and initiatives that are needed to effectively manage the complexities of a rapidly transforming grid, make ERCOT future ready, drive thought leadership and help electric power industry  Director, Grid Transformation reports to the Chief Technology Officer and creates and communicates a vision which anticipates, identifies, and explains challenges and opportunities that ERCOT will encounter as the Texas electric power grid transforms.

This role will develop approaches, processes, and solutions that allow ERCOT to maximize its effectiveness and progressively achieve higher levels of readiness. This position will implement Grid Research, Innovation and Transformation (GRIT) programs and initiatives using highly skilled matrixed resources from across the organization and will guide and recommend investments in staff, systems, and solutions. This position will establish new partnerships and expand the existing research and innovation partnerships and collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.

• Set the long‑term vision for how ERCOT navigates a rapidly transforming grid.
• Anticipate the technology, load, and market shifts coming from large‑load growth, inverter‑based resources, distributed energy, and electrification, and translate them into a clear roadmap the whole organization can act on.
• Turn emerging ideas into operational reality.
• Lead the full innovation pipeline, from white papers and research to proofs of concept, pilots, and prototypes, and decide what is ready to scale into ERCOT’s systems, processes, and market design.
• Responsible for hiring, coaching, training, and performance management of staff.
• Regularly interacts with executives and/or major customers.
• Interactions frequently involve special skills, such as negotiating with customers or management regarding matters of significance to the organization.
• Typically directs and controls the activities of a broad functional area through several department managers within ERCOT.
• Has overall control of planning, staffing, budgeting, managing expense priorities, and recommending and implementing changes to methods.
• Responsible for budgetary decisions within functional areas according to organizational policy/guidelines.
• Recommend financial decisions that impact area of responsibility.
• Provides leadership and ensures accountability for successful implementation of GRIT programs and initiatives.
• Provides strategic and technical expertise to internal and external stakeholders and brings awareness of research and innovation…