Director Energy Strategy Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Lead crossfunctional development and execution of energy strategy initiatives that enable business growth, improve power readiness, and support market expansion.

Drive strategic planning rhythms and operating mechanisms that connect energy constraints and opportunities to development pacing, investment decisions, and longrange plans.

Develop and implement scalable governance frameworks (standards, decision gates, escalation paths) to improve consistency, speed, and accountability across energyrelated decisions.

Build and maintain executiveready dashboards and performance measurement tools to transparently track power readiness, risk exposure, key milestones, and business impacts.

Identify and drive improvements to internal processes that reduce friction, improve crossfunctional coordination, and enable repeatable execution at scale.

Partner with leaders across the business to translate energy market dynamics, utility readiness, and risk signals into clear recommendations and tradeoffsfor senior decisionmakers.

Support business growth by helping teams evaluate powerrelated options, sequencing decisions, and mitigation plans that protect schedule, cost, and customer commitments.

Lead working teams through ambiguity by establishing clarity on goals, roles, timelines, dependencies, and success metrics for energy strategy deliverables.

Influence and align stakeholders through strong executive communication, ensuring complex energy topics are presented in business terms that enable action

Other duties as assigned.

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What You Will Need to Be Successful: (Required Qualifications, Education, Experience, Certifications)

Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.

10 or more years' professional experience that includes leading crossfunctional teams, strategic planning, and driving business growth.

Experience operating in or alongside energy, infrastructure, utilities, large capital programs, strategy, or similarly complex environments.

Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and drive outcomes through matrixed stakeholder groups.

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Nice to Have: (Preferred Qualifications, Education, Experience, Certifications)

Experience building governance models, business operating mechanisms, or standardized playbooks that scale.

Familiarity with energy markets, utility engagement processes, infrastructure development lifecycles, or sustainability/ESG strategy (as applicable to the scope).

Strong analytical capability including KPI design, reporting cadence creation, and decisionsupport storytelling.

Other Key Skills: (KSAs)

Proven ability to lead crossfunctional teams to deliver outcomes in a highgrowth, fastchanging environment.

Strong strategic planning capability, including the ability to define a roadmap, translate strategy into execution, and establish operating rhythms that sustain momentum.

Strong communication skills with the ability to simplify complex topics, align stakeholders, and drive decisions.

High ownership mindset, strong work ethic, and ability to maintain performance over sustained periods of change and workload.

Ability to build scalable frameworks (standards, gates, metrics) that improve clarity, predictability, and performance.

Demonstrated business acumen and financial rigor to evaluate tradeoffs, risks, and investment implications; able to communicate recommendations clearly to senior leaders.

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