Innovation Accelerator - Ideate Lead
Apply NowCompany: PG&E Corporation
Location: Oakland, CA 94601
Description:
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
Qualifications
Minimum:
Desired:
Purpose, Virtues and Stands
Our Purpose explains "why" we exist:
Our Virtues capture "who" we need to be:
Our Stands are "what" we will achieve together:
More About Our Company
EEO
Pacific Gas and Electric Company is an Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity employer that actively pursues and hires a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, religion, physical or mental disability status, medical condition, protected veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information or any other factor that is not related to the job.
Employee Privacy Notice The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) goes into effect on January 1, 2020. CCPA grants new and far-reaching privacy rights to all California residents. The law also entitles job applicants, employees and non-employee workers to be notified of what personal information PG&E collects and for what purpose. The Employee Privacy Notice can be accessed through the following link: Employee Privacy Notice
PG&E will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in a manner consistent with all state and local laws.
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
- Create initial stakeholder maps that identify who matters most within the context of a given challenge
- Facilitate "Asset Jams" that identify available the company's core competencies, assets, and capabilities
- Provides exceptional leadership and mentorship to direct & indirect reports
- Develop and oversee the pipeline of ideas from various sources
- Create final deliverables and presentations to PG&E stakeholders
Qualifications
Minimum:
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
- 10 Years of relevant experience (i.e. Project Management, Operations Lead, or People Management role)
- Energy sector experience
- Experience developing and executing a strategic R&D plan.
- Experience in innovation ideation, management, valorization and deployment.
Desired:
- MBA preferred
- 5+ years of experience managing and / or leading teams at an executive level
- Past roles working at or consulting to global enterprises, ideally in a strategic role
- Proven track record of successfully managing multiple, complex projects
- Demonstrated ability to gain confidence, build rapport, and lead collaborative sessions with senior executive leadership
- Ability to deal with ambiguity in a fast-paced, fluid environment
- Previous experience within a startup
Purpose, Virtues and Stands
Our Purpose explains "why" we exist:
- Delivering for our hometowns
- Serving our planet
- Leading with love
Our Virtues capture "who" we need to be:
- Trustworthy
- Empathetic
- Curious
- Tenacious
- Nimble
- Owners
Our Stands are "what" we will achieve together:
- Everyone and everything is always safe
- Catastrophic wildfires shall stop
- It is enjoyable to work with and for PG&E
- Clean and resilient energy for all
- Our work shall create prosperity for all customers and investors
More About Our Company
EEO
Pacific Gas and Electric Company is an Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity employer that actively pursues and hires a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, religion, physical or mental disability status, medical condition, protected veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information or any other factor that is not related to the job.
Employee Privacy Notice The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) goes into effect on January 1, 2020. CCPA grants new and far-reaching privacy rights to all California residents. The law also entitles job applicants, employees and non-employee workers to be notified of what personal information PG&E collects and for what purpose. The Employee Privacy Notice can be accessed through the following link: Employee Privacy Notice
PG&E will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in a manner consistent with all state and local laws.