Program Director – Grid Flexibility

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Massachusetts.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the program from inception through implementation and long-term value realization.

• Oversee delivery timelines, decision-making processes, coordination, and execution.

• Create documentation, artifacts, and assets while addressing functional gaps.

• Establish credibility and build relationships with a highly regulated major US electric utility.

• Navigate the complex operational layers of the utility.

• Align product, engineering/technology, delivery, and customer-facing teams.

• Guide product and delivery trade-offs through cross-functional influence.

• Manage the business case, value realization, customer growth, and revenue linkage.

• Lead a pioneering deployment for grid flexibility that focuses on control-room operations, consolidating and dispatching both supply- and demand-side flexible assets.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive, senior-level experience at the Director, Senior Director, or Head-of level in program, implementation, delivery, or utility transformation leadership.

• Profound experience in grid modernization initiatives.

• Strong knowledge of Demand Response, DERs, VPPs, DERMS, AMI, and grid operations.

• Demonstrated experience managing stakeholders in regulated US electric utilities.

• Familiarity with the operational and control-room aspects of a utility.

• Recent comprehensive ownership of a complex grid program, covering planning, governance, and cross-functional execution.

• A track record of commercial or solution ownership, P&L responsibility, or accountability for value realization.

• Candidates must possess the right to work in the country where they are applying at the time of application; visa sponsorship is not available.

• Being based on the US East Coast is advantageous.

• Specific experience with the Virginia, Mid-Atlantic, or broader East Coast utility ecosystems is a plus.

• Experience leading grid-side flexibility initiatives aimed at physical or locational grid constraints is beneficial.

• Acknowledged credibility within the US utility or flexibility ecosystem is an advantage.

• Willingness and ability to travel to the client in the Northeast approximately every two weeks for a few days at a time.

🏝️ Benefits

• Options for medical, dental, and vision insurance including FSAs.

• Paid time off.

• 401(k) plan with employer matching.

• Parental leave for biological, adoptive, and foster parents.

• Pre-tax commuter benefits.

• A flexible working environment.

• Equity options.

• Modern office or co-working spaces depending on location.