Head of Energy Risk Management and Grid Modeling

Google

San Francisco, CA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Analysis Skills, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud Computing, Communication Skills, Computer Science, Contract Negotiation, Cost Modeling, Cross-Functional, Economics, Electrical Engineering, Electrical Power Systems, Electricity, Energy Management, Engineering, Engineering Management, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Finance, Forecasting, Leadership, Management Strategy, Mentoring, Metrics, Network Operations Center, Operations Research, Pricing, Product Development, Product Engineering, Production Costing, Project Engineering, Project Lifecycle, Project Schedule, Project/Program Management, Purchasing/Procurement, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Quantitative Analysis, Realtime Operating System, Regulations, Risk, Risk Analysis, Risk Management, Risk Modeling, Schedule Development, Strategic Planning, Sustainability, System Operations, Technical Leadership
LOCATION
San Francisco, CA
POSTED
30+ days ago
Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: San Francisco, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience in program management.
  • 7 years of experience in leadership roles with direct reports.
  • Experience with Python.
  • Experience with production cost modeling software applications such as PLEXOS or PROMOD.
  • Experience with Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs) and Transmission System Operators (TSOs), and their market structures, rules, and regulatory environments.

Preferred qualifications:

  • PhD in Power Systems, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Operations Research, Economics, or related disciplines.
  • Experience in identifying potential risks in resource planning and developing mitigation strategies to ensure reliable and cost-effective energy supply.
  • Experience in electricity markets across multiple regions globally.
  • Experience coordinating with energy experts and non-experts alike; lead projects requiring inputs from multiple teams through excellent cross-functional collaboration.

About the job

Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering challenges we face daily. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders. You're equally at home explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers.Using your extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage various Engineering-specific programs and teams.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $240000 - $334000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefitsLearn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and execute frameworks to measure and mitigate risk across Google's global multi-gigawatt energy portfolio.
  • Drive long-term electricity price forecasting using advanced grid modeling to simulate scenarios including capacity expansion, generation mix, and transmission constraints.
  • Partner with procurement, operations, sustainability, and finance to integrate risk and pricing insights into agreement negotiations.
  • Translate complex modeling and risk metrics into clear, actionable insights for executive decision-making.
  • Manage, mentor, and grow a specialized team of quantitative analysts, grid modelers, and energy risk professionals.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

About the Company

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Google

Build for everyone

Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.

It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.

So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.

Benefits

We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.

Learn more about Google’s benefits on this site featuring Googlers’ experience.

How we Hire

Google’s hiring process is an important part of our culture. Googlers care deeply about their teams and the people who make them up. In order to  build for everyone, we know that we need a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and a fair hiring process is the first step in getting there.

Learn more about our hiring process.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Computer Software
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
Paid Sick Days, Performance Bonus, Professional Development, 401K, Stock Options, Employee Events, Retirement / Pension Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Work From Home, Life Insurance, On Site Cafeteria
FOUNDED
1998
WEBSITE
https://goo.gle/4dbno6V