Director, Strategy, Innovation & Partnership

Requisition ID # 162406 

Job Category: Maintenance / Construction / Operations 

Job Level: Director/Chief

Business Unit: Engineering, Planning & Strategy

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

 

 

Department Overview

The Strategy, Innovation and Partnership Leadership team identifies, monitors and develops plans to manage emerging issues and technologies that present challenges and opportunities for PG&E. The team engages with internal stakeholders to collect information, build internal capabilities, and foster a culture of innovation and collaboration, and works externally to establish partnerships and collaborate on new technologies which will benefit the Company.  This department leads the identification of strategic Research and Development (R&D) initiatives, assesses benefits associated with all R&D projects, engages with partner utilities and industry R&D organizations to gain and leverage partnership funding. The department manages high-level, strategic R&D for the Company including establishing and maintaining a strategic R&D plan, providing leadership and oversight of R&D efforts to assess new technologies and work methods. This includes work with industry groups, regulatory agencies, academia and other research organizations. Creates a safety culture for an incident-free work environment and encourages ownership for co-worker safety in R&D projects.

 

Position Summary

If you have a track record of building, partnering, and/or investing in new ventures with a startup or large enterprise, have a dynamic nature with outstanding project management skills, and an ability to juggle quickly changing priorities, with a smile on your face, we want to talk to you. We are now seeking a Director to manage the growth and development of our Innovation Accelerator.

 

This role will include managing communication across the company, building an organic growth strategy across key innovation priority areas, managing an Accelerator Advisory Board, developing and standardizing workflow processes for the Accelerator, overseeing talent pipeline needs, representing PG&E within the startup / innovation community, and ensuring new initiatives within the Accelerator are moving forward in line with the determined timelines and priorities.

 

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The assigned work location will be within the PG&E Service Territory.

 

Reporting Relationship

This role reports to the Senior Director, GRiD Innovation R&D and will lead a team of professionals to drive acceleration of the technologies – team size to be determined.

 

Job Responsibilities

• Manage the Accelerator alignment with stakeholders
  • Strategic themes and roadmap
  • Budget sizing and allocation
  • Operating plan

• Own and operate key strategic aspects of the Accelerator
  • Determine the source of new ideas for the Accelerator (Executives, R&D, New Venture Competitions, etc.), selection criteria, idea scorecards, and disposition feedback to the submitter
  • Establish understanding of the key domain areas and ecosystems
  • Maintain a volume of Incubation and Acceleration
  • Internal and external Accelerator and innovation team communication

• Oversee the talent pipeline (Incubator, Innovation Teams, Innovation Board members and Growth Advocates)
  • Staffing requirements
  • Profiles for potential hires
  • Interview stages and associated guides
  • Best