Vice President/Director, Regulatory and Policy
UtilityAPI
Summary
Join UtilityAPI as a senior leader to spearhead market transformation and thought leadership in energy data access. You will collaborate with utilities, states, and regional administrators to shape policies and regulations supporting the energy transition. This role involves building trusted relationships with key stakeholders, developing and executing regulatory processes, and identifying commercial opportunities. You will engage with industry leaders, present at public events, and act as a voice of the customer in internal strategy discussions. The position is co-listed as VP/Director based on experience, offering a chance to define and grow a business practice within a rapidly expanding company. Compensation includes a competitive salary and benefits package.
Requirements
- Strong network and reputation among utility executives, utility commissioners, administrators, policy-makers, clean energy executives, and thought leaders in the energy and utilities sectors
- Demonstrated history of regulatory/policy thought leadership in one or more relevant domains, such as virtual power plants, customer programs, rate-making, interconnection, cybersecurity, data privacy, grid modernization, energy markets, energy modeling, and/or data access
- Experience developing successful comments, testimony, and/or policy proposals that meaningfully influenced outcomes in the utility/legislative contexts
- Experience effectively communicating complex topics to a diverse array of stakeholders, including technical/non-technical audiences
- Ability to work within a dynamic, fast-paced environment balancing multiple competing objectives
Responsibilities
- Maintain trusted relationships with key stakeholders, such as utility commissioners and staff, state energy offices, policy makers, utility regulatory staff, trade associations, wholesale market staff, and non-governmental organizations
- Develop and lead the execution of key regulatory and policy processes such as docket and policy tracking, written comment development, coalition building, and model policy development
- Engage with utility, clean energy, and public sector leaders to develop and elevate use cases for our data access platforms in new policy contexts through collaboration and thought leadership
- Identify, size, and elevate commercial opportunities that may arise through regulatory/policy work, coordinating/consulting with business development on potential go-to-market strategies
- Attend and present at public events, conferences, trade associations, and working groups, both as a participant and presenter
- Act as a voice of the customer in internal conversations on corporate and product strategy with fellow leaders and the board, providing regular updates on policy risks, opportunities, and priorities
Preferred Qualifications
Experience reporting to C-level/board and managing direct reports
Benefits
- Excellent medical, dental and vision insurance
- Equity in the company
- 401(k) with employer matching
- Home office set up stipend
- Unlimited PTO