Principal Compliance Risk and Consultant, Governance and Strategy - Location Flexible

Requisition ID # 169639 

Job Category: Compliance / Risk / Quality Assurance 

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Electric Engineering

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland; Fresno; Rocklin; Sacramento

Position Summary

PG&E is seeking an experienced risk and compliance leader to serve as Governance and Strategy Principal within Electric Risk and Compliance. This role is a strategic enterprise leader responsible for shaping and elevating the most important electric risk and compliance topics for senior leadership consideration—leveraging cross‑functional collaboration, technical acumen, and strong verbal and written communication to drive alignment on priorities, tradeoffs, and actions.

The Principal stewards enterprise standards, narratives, and reporting frameworks that translate complex compliance, risk, performance, engineering, and operational information into clear, decision‑ready insights. Success requires the ability to collaborate effectively across a complex, matrixed organization and apply technical judgment to engage both technical and non‑technical audiences on electric compliance and risk topics.

Drawing on input from Electric Operations, Wildfire, Engineering, and other functions, the Principal synthesizes diverse inputs into cohesive, enterprise‑level narratives that support alignment, leadership confidence, timely decisions, and enterprise learning. The role also represents Electric Risk and Compliance in enterprise forums and committees, ensuring consistent visibility, alignment, and decision follow‑through.

The selected candidate must live within PG&E’s service territory.

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 towards the middle or entry point of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.​

A reasonable salary range is:

Minimum Base Salary (Bay Area)            $132,000.00

Mid Base Salary (Bay Area)        $179,000.00

Maximum Base Salary (Bay Area)           $226,000.00

Minimum Base Salary (California)         $125,000.00

Mid Base Salary (California)      $170,000.00

Maximum Base Salary (California)        $215,000.00

Responsibilities

Forum Leadership & Facilitation

• Shape agendas for electric risk and compliance forums to focus leadership discussion on high‑priority, enterprise‑relevant risks and compliance topics.
• Facilitate executive‑level discussions to surface emerging risks, regulatory themes, and strategic issues requiring alignment or action.

Enterprise Representation & Alignment

• Represent Electric Risk and Compliance in enterprise forums and committees, ensuring consistent visibility, alignment, and decision follow‑through.
• Translate emerging risk and compliance themes into clear enterprise priorities, commitments, and decisions.

Governance & Compliance Strategy

• Identify, frame, and elevate cross‑functional risk and compliance topics based on regulatory trends, performance signals, and enterprise priorities.
• Strengthen commitment management practices to ensure consistency, effective change control, and alignment with strategic risk objectives.
• Leverage engineering fundamentals and systems thinking to test assumptions, validate root causes, and assess feasibility of proposed mitigations and commitments.
• Advise cross‑functional teams on KPIs, KRIs, and maturity metrics to support leadership discussions grounded in risk exposure, trends, and tradeoffs.
• Partner with Engineering and Operations to translate technical constraints, asset condition, and field execution realities into clear risk tradeoffs, governance recommendations, and leadership-ready decisions.

Compliance Communication & Reporting Framework

• Steward the enterprise framework for executive‑level risk and compliance communication, prioritizing materiality, relevance, and decision impact.
• Establish narrative standards that clearly articulate why issues matter, what is changing, and what actions or decisions are needed.
• Translate complex regulatory, compliance, risk, engineering, and operational topics into clear, structured insights and risk narratives (problem, drivers, controls, residual risk, and actions) that enable proactive leadership engagement and withstand executive and regulatory scrutiny.

Qualifications 

Minimum: 

• Bachelor's degree in business, Risk Management, Engineering, or related field. 

• 10 years of relevant experience 

Desired:  

• PhD or Master’s degree in  Engineering, Data Analytics, or related field.
• Experience in engineering operations or planning highly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across a complex, matrixed organization and facilitate leaders through complex, ambiguous, forward‑looking electric risk topics.
• Strong familiarity with compliance frameworks, risk assessment methodologies, and enterprise risk governance practices.
• Advanced proficiency in policy development, strategy, change management, and regulatory horizon scanning; demonstrated ability to anticipate emerging risks and regulatory shifts.
• Experience developing executive‑level, decision‑ready materials that frame implications, tradeoffs, and recommended actions.
• Deep knowledge of utility or energy industry drivers, issues, trends, and regulatory dynamics.
• Experience working with CPUC, FERC, NERC, or similar regulatory bodies, including interpretation of regulatory expectations and enforcement signals.