Senior Program Manager, Clean Energy Transportation Strategy

Requisition ID # 158571 

Job Category: Project / Program Management 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Engineering, Planning & Strategy

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

 

 

Department Overview

The Clean Energy Transportation (CET) group is focused on advancing the adoption of clean vehicles in California. CET leads a ~$0.5B portfolio of transportation electrification (TE) programs to increase the adoption of clean vehicles in California as we work to address one of the largest contributors to climate change – and we need a motivated, organized strategic thinker to help us determine how to expand this portfolio. We serve PG&E’s customers by deploying electric vehicle (EV) programs to increase access to charging infrastructure, reduce total cost of electric vehicle ownership, educating our customers and pursuing innovative vehicle-grid-integration (VGI) strategies to unlock additional benefits to EV drivers and the grid.

 

We focus on safety and quality, invest in our team’s success, solve problems, and strive to be better, work as an integrated team, and build trusted relationships. We collaborate and are intellectually curious. We are looking to collaborate with passionate, thoughtful people who want to make a real impact.

 

Team Overview:

CET’s Strategy and Policy (S&P) team creates, tests, and advocates for evidence-based clean energy transportation solutions by spearheading pilot projects, policy frameworks, tailored customer offerings, and stakeholder engagement. Our team develops, iterates, and executes on PG&E’s strategy to connect 3 million EVs to the grid and enabling at least 550MW of flexible load from (VGI) applications by 2030. To do this, the team is focused on:

• ideating and developing new programs to ensure we invest in all our communities,
• reimagining how we build the transmission and distribution grid to enable mass EV adoption,
• strategizing how we can enable and deploy VGI at scale,
• working to ensure we serve our EV customers in a way that inspires joy and builds trust, and
• creating a repeatable and scalable pathway to enable widespread electrification via partnerships and policy advocacy.

 

Position Summary

A sizable portion of PG&E’s residential customers live in multi-family housing units or in a location without access to parking, which we define as parking constrained customers. This customer segment has limited access to reliable and affordable charging. Installing an EV charger in these locations can be costly, lengthy, and complicated by the need for approval and investment by the property owner/manager as well as zoning and permitting challenges. While PG&E has seen significant EV growth topping ~25% of new vehicle sales in 2023, improving access to parking constrained customers will be critical to meeting our goal of 3M EVs by 2030.

 

The S&P team is looking for Senior Program Manager to lead the development and management of a new pilot to research and test scalable charging solutions for parking-constrained residential customers. The successful candidate will use results from the pilot to help develop and refine PG&E’s strategy for supporting these residential customers and meet our broader EV goals.

 

The position will handle the day-to-day implementation of the pilot, including but not limited to budget monitoring, running requests for proposals, contracting with vendors, internal and external stakeholder engagement, providing direction to and managing consultants and vendors, creatively solving emergent issues, and reporting out on pilot results. This person will also work on the development of a broader strategy around charging solutions for parking-constrained customers.

 

The successful candidate will be able to manage ambiguity and make forward progress in situations when they are presented with incomplete information. They will engage in deep collaboration and change management with other internal teams as well as with external teams such as consultants, municipal part