Position Summary
If you have a track record of building, partnering, and/or investing in new ventures with a startup or large enterprise, have a dynamic nature with outstanding project management skills, and an ability to juggle quickly changing priorities, with a smile on your face, we want to talk to you. We are now seeking a Director to manage the growth and development of our Innovation Accelerator.
This role will include managing communication across the company, building an organic growth strategy across key innovation priority areas, managing an Accelerator Advisory Board, developing and standardizing workflow processes for the Accelerator, overseeing talent pipeline needs, representing PG&E within the startup / innovation community, and ensuring new initiatives within the Accelerator are moving forward in line with the determined timelines and priorities.
This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The assigned work location will be within the PG&E Service Territory.
Reporting Relationship
This role reports to the Senior Director, GRiD Innovation R&D and will lead a team of professionals to drive acceleration of the technologies - team size to be determined.
Job Responsibilities
- Manage the Accelerator alignment with stakeholders
- Strategic themes and roadmap
- Budget sizing and allocation
- Operating plan
- Own and operate key strategic aspects of the Accelerator
- Determine the source of new ideas for the Accelerator (Executives, R&D, New Venture Competitions, etc.), selection criteria, idea scorecards, and disposition feedback to the submitter
- Establish understanding of the key domain areas and ecosystems
- Maintain a volume of Incubation and Acceleration
- Internal and external Accelerator and innovation team communication
- Oversee the talent pipeline (Incubator, Innovation Teams, Innovation Board members and Growth Advocates)
- Staffing requirements
- Profiles for potential hires
- Interview stages and associated guides
- Best practices for managing innovation personnel
- HR and line manager selection, onboarding, and offboarding
- Employee and leadership rotations
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
77 Beale St
San Francisco
California United States
www.pge.com
