Senior Manager, Regulatory Affairs

Summary

Join EnergyHub, a company empowering utilities and customers towards a clean energy future, as a Senior Manager, Regulatory Affairs. You will play an integral role in accelerating EnergyHub's growth through regulatory advocacy and providing regulatory intelligence. This position requires expertise in the electric utility industry, demand-side management, and collaboration with various stakeholders. You will track regulatory trends, participate in industry proceedings, and represent EnergyHub as a thought leader. The ideal candidate possesses strong analytical and communication skills, enabling them to translate complex data into digestible insights. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on the energy sector and contribute to a sustainable future.

Requirements

• BA/BS with 4-7 years of work experience, and at least 2 years in the energy sector
• Familiarity with electricity industry and utility business model; including understanding of key trends and stakeholder landscape
• Experience with federal, statewide and utility electric vehicle initiatives
• Basic understanding of wholesale electricity market design and operations
• Basic understanding of distribution system management
• Ability to draft and copy edit regulatory comments, media, blogs, and customer-facing marketing and sales content
• Experience using Excel, Salesforce, Tableau, or other software tools to analyze and visualize data
• You have a knack for leveraging webinars and social media to express thought leadership, and nuanced policy perspectives, and shape market conversations

Responsibilities

• Track trends across grid modernization, integrated resource planning, demand-side management, transportation electrification, energy storage, rate cases, and state and federal legislation and grant programs, and prioritize our involvement in the highest-leverage initiatives
• Participate in integrated resource planning/potential study cycles to promote the use of demand-side resources and virtual power plants in long-term grid planning
• Formulate playbooks for reforming DSM portfolio planning and implementation, with an emphasis on breaking down barriers between energy efficiency and demand response
• Educate regulators and advocate for the role of software in facilitating demand flexibility through innovative retail rates
• Represent EnergyHub as a thought leader in electric vehicle program design to ensure that managed charging programs are set up to monetize the full grid value of EV assets
• Harvest best practices from early battery storage demand response programs to drive the development of energy storage incentive and load management programs
• Track national and state-level regulatory trends and periodically brief senior leadership and internal stakeholders to enable product roadmap planning
• Lead cross-functional efforts to evaluate new business models or program ideas in response to federal or state-level policy initiatives (e.g., IIJA, IRA, state energy offices)
• Research and gain expertise in regulatory topics with the potential to accelerate the adoption of grid-edge resources and the programs that harness them (e.g., performance-based ratemaking, software capitalization, technical resource manuals and M&V protocols)
• Foster productive relationships with EnergyHub’s trade associations and represent EnergyHub at industry conferences
• Work with Product Marketing to create thought leadership materials such as blog posts and white papers in support of policy positions - identify and onboard outside consultants to craft positions and advocacy materials where appropriate
• Other duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in the energy and utilities industry
• Familiarity with energy efficiency and demand-side management technologies and regulations
• Familiarity with utility programs and/or regulatory concepts
• Deeper knowledge of how utilities serve their customers
• Experience participating in utility stakeholder proceedings or working groups
• Experience researching and analyzing the market impact of new policies, regulations, and program implementation rules

Benefits

• 100% paid medical for employees
• 401(k) with employer match
• Casual environment
• Flexibility to set your own schedule
• Fully stocked fridge and pantry
• Free Citi Bike membership
• Secure bike rack
• Gym subsidy
• Paid parental leave
• Education assistance program
• Annual bonus