Principal Compliance Risk and Consultant, Governance and Strategy - Location Flexible

Requisition ID # 169639 

Job Category: Compliance / Risk / Quality Assurance 

Job Level: Manager/Principal

Business Unit: Electric Engineering

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland; Fresno; Rocklin; Sacramento

Position Summary

PG&E is seeking an experienced risk and compliance professional to serve as Governance and Strategy Principal within Electric Risk and Compliance. This role serves as a strategic enterprise leader responsible for shaping and elevating the most important risk and compliance topics for senior leadership consideration. The Principal stewards’ enterprise standards, narratives, and reporting frameworks that translate complex compliance, risk, and performance information into clear, decision ready insights for executive and officer level forums. 

The Governance and Strategy Principal proactively shape the enterprise risk and compliance agenda, anticipating emerging risks, regulatory changes, and cross functional dependencies to ensure leadership focus remains on material risks and strategic outcomes. The role leads the Risk and Compliance Committee (RCC) as a key governance forum to surface, frame, and align on priority issues requiring leadership awareness or decision. 

Through close partnership with Electric Operations, Wildfire, Engineering, and other functions, the Principal synthesizes diverse inputs into cohesive, enterprise level narratives, supporting alignment, leadership confidence, and timely decision making. Through these contributions, the role advances enterprise learning and transparency and reinforces a culture of accountability and continuous improvement. 

The selected candidate must live within PG&E’s service territory.

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 towards the middle or entry point of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.​

A reasonable salary range is:

Minimum Base Salary (Bay Area)            $132,000.00

Mid Base Salary (Bay Area)        $179,000.00

Maximum Base Salary (Bay Area)           $226,000.00

Minimum Base Salary (California)         $125,000.00

Mid Base Salary (California)      $170,000.00

Maximum Base Salary (California)        $215,000.00

Responsibilities

Forum Leadership & Facilitation

• Shape agendas for risk and compliance forums focus leadership discussion on high‑priority, enterprise‑relevant risks and compliance topics. 

• Lead executive‑level forums, including the RCC, to surface emerging risks, regulatory themes, and strategic issues requiring leadership alignment or action. 

Enterprise Representation & Alignment

• Serve as the enterprise lead for the Commitment Information Center (CIC), ensuring alignment between governance forums and commitment execution. 

• Ensure emerging risk and compliance themes translate into clear enterprise priorities, commitments, and decisions. 

Governance & Compliance Strategy 

• Identify, frame, and elevate cross‑functional risk and compliance topics based on regulatory trends, performance signals, and enterprise priorities. 

• Strengthen commitment management practices to ensure consistency, effective change control, and alignment with strategic risk objectives. 

• Advise cross‑functional teams on KPIs, KRIs, and maturity metrics to support leadership discussions grounded in risk exposure, trends, and tradeoffs. 

Compliance Communication & Reporting Framework

• Steward the enterprise framework for executive‑level risk and compliance communication, prioritizing materiality, relevance, and decision impact. 

• Establish narrative standards that clearly articulate why issues matter, what is changing, and what actions or decisions are needed. 

• Translate complex regulatory, compliance, and risk information into clear, structured insights that enable proactive leadership engagement.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Risk Management, Engineering, or related field. 

• 10+ years of relevant experience 

Desired:

• Master’s degree in a technical or legal field, or equivalent advanced experience. 

• Advanced proficiency in policy development, strategy, change management, and regulatory horizon scanning, with demonstrated ability to anticipate emerging risks and regulatory shifts. 

• Demonstrated strategic leadership in fostering cross functional alignment by driving collaboration, shared priorities, and cohesive execution across matrixed organizations. 

• Strong familiarity with compliance frameworks, risk assessment methodologies, and enterprise risk governance practices. 

• Experience developing and coordinating executive level, decision ready materials that frame implications, tradeoffs, and recommended actions. 

• Exceptional facilitation, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to guide leaders through complex, ambiguous, and forward-looking risk topics. 

• Deep knowledge of utility or energy industry drivers, issues, trends, and regulatory dynamics. 

• Experience working with CPUC, FERC, NERC, or similar regulatory bodies, including interpretation of regulatory expectations and enforcement signals. 

Certifications & Licenses

• Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional (CCEP) 

• Lean Six Sigma Certification 

• Project Management Professional (PMP) 

• CRMP (Certified Risk Management Professional)