Innovation Accelerator - Ideate Lead

Requisition ID # 164391 

Job Category: Maintenance / Construction / Operations 

Job Level: Senior Manager

Business Unit: Engineering, Planning & Strategy

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

 

 

Department Overview

There’s strength in leading the way. A greater good in the work we do. And an optimism about what’s to come. This is an environment that’s brimming with innovation and exciting possibilities. For over 115 years, PG&E has been a part of the community, delivering clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy. Join us and discover the brighter future we can create – together.

 

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation (NYSE: PCG), is one of the largest combined natural gas and electric companies in the United States. Based in Oakland, our 25,000 employees work throughout our Northern and Central California service area, stretching from Eureka to Bakersfield and from the Pacific Ocean to the Sierra Nevada. We’re ranked among the nation’s cleanest utilities and we’re driving change in the utility industry to support the transition to a cleaner energy economy.

 

In 2022, PG&E articulated its True North Strategy (TNS), a bold, breakthrough vision that charts a course over the next 10 years toward achieving our purpose and climate commitments. The Grid Research Innovation and Development (GRiD) department is focused on bringing technologies and solutions that support the implementation of TNS from conception to reality.

 

The PG&E Innovation Accelerator, a core function within GRID, leverages customer-centric start-up methodologies to ideate, incubate, and accelerate new internal initiatives to market that are optimized for impact.

 

Position Summary

The Ideate Lead works with executive leadership, R&D groups, and other business stakeholders to define, plan, and develop the new idea pipeline for the PG&E Innovation Accelerator program, usually through a combination of structured brainstorming sessions, portfolio review, domain exploration, and ecosystem mapping activities.

 

In this position, which reports to the Innovation Accelerator Director, you will facilitate key brainstorming and decision-making processes that help PG&E determine the domain and direction of the program.

 

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The preferred work location is Oakland, CA.

 

PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed between the entry point and the middle of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.​ This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs. 

A reasonable salary range is:​

Bay Area Minimum: $163,000.00

Bay Area Midpoint: $220,000.00

Bay Area Maximum: $277,000.00

 

 

Job Responsibilities

• Program management, planning, and definition of innovation activities and internal programs
• Interface with executive teams and stakeholders across PG&E to source, inventory, and evaluate existing and new innovation ideas
• Establish and organize idea evaluation processes and capabilities
• Conduct primary and secondary-source research into key domain areas, creating insights and developing opportunity hypotheses
• Help leadership frame and prioritize new innovation ideas and constraints