Expert Data Product Coach

Requisition ID # 158517 

Job Category: Project / Program Management 

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Business Unit: Information Technology

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

Department Overview

The Enterprise Data Management (EDM) team enables data governance, quality, and metadata management capabilities to maximize the use and ensure the trustworthiness of PG&E’s critical data assets.

Position Summary

PG&E has embarked on an exciting, multi-year journey to manage its universe of critical data, data that supports decision-making for the company's most important business processes and risks.  This lofty goal involves inventorying the company's data, understanding the data including its ownership, metadata, and critical data elements, and systematically increasing the quality of the data through process remediation and data cleansing.  Focused data management will enable the company to make excellent decisions powered by trusted data.  The Data Product Coach partners with one or more functional areas and helps the area's leadership build its data mindset, set a vision, build a roadmap, and execute on data management initiatives.  Part subject matter expert, part advisor, part change agent, and part advocate, the Data Product Coach leads the functional area to meet its data management goals and deliver on business outcomes with quality.

If that role description caught your eye, are you passionate about using data to change the world?  Do you evangelize making data trustworthy?  Do you love to influence people and organizations to publish, search, and understand data as well as spotlight that data's fit for use?  Are you the sort of person who is a change leader in one setting, advisor in another, and the subject matter expert somewhere else?  Do you get up in the morning excited to solve problems?  If you not only answered "yes" to these questions, but your heart picked up its pace with excitement, stop skimming job descriptions for a couple minutes and read this one top to bottom because we have an opportunity for you.

The role is hybrid working from your remote office and in-person  based on business needs in either Oakland or San Ramon. 

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 between the entry point and the middle of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.​ This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs. 

A reasonable salary range is:​

Bay Area Minimum:             $122,000  

Bay Area Maximum:            $194,000

Job Responsibilities

Now that we have your attention, let's take a look at some specific opportunities to further whet your appetite and convince you that this is the best work to put your mind to.

• You are the agent of change through collaborative leadership
  • You win hearts and minds:  Understand the data management mindset and lead others to understand it and adopt it as their own
  • You build vision:  Create a common understanding of a better world of data interaction, and identify and define the potential pathways to get there
  • You build hope, motivation, and tenacity:  Breathe life into the work and change for people and teams through your spirit of accomplishment, can-do attitude, and determination to press on regardless
  • You relentlessly lead execution:  Partner with functional area leadership to develop a roadmap to accomplish data management goals and systematically track, monitor, and adjust its execution
• You are the customer's advisor and mentor
  • You BFF the business:  Build relationships with organization leadership, data stewards, data scientists, data analysts, and data decision makers throughout the company and understand their needs, concerns, and value opportunities
  • You are the go-to for knowledge:  With your worn and tabbed DMBOK, your wealth of data management successes and failures, and/or your understanding of PG&E data management activities and playbook, you provide insight, education, and support to functional area personnel and groups to achieve data objectives
  • You are the MacGyver of business problems rooted in data:  Figure out how to use data management practices to solve the hard problems and teach the customer along the way
  • You ask the right question:  Gently but firmly hold technical teams accountable to delivery on business value
• Every day, you are mastering data management
  • You go deep:  You study, learn, and gain expertise in one or more data management knowledge areas, such as governance, master data, data quality, metadata, etc.
  • You contribute to the Center of Excellence:  The company's enterprise data management knowledge and best practices have your finger prints on them where you not only consumed what was available, but you rolled up your sleeves and added your own special piece
  • You learn:  Stay abreast of new ideas, experiment and gain knowledge through trial and error, collaborate with others, and research what works and what does not
  • You share:  You constantly strive to not just master data management yourself, but to help those around you do so as well

Qualifications

Are you excited yet?  So are we!  Let's check a couple minimum qualifications:

• You wake up in the morning ready to support an individual or group to achieve outcomes they define through building awareness and empowerment to change, being a coach is a critical part of your identity
• You are downright amazing at facilitation, you can guide a group of people to an outcome based on their objectives
• You are a master teacher, engaging your students to absorb the content
• As a mentor, you know how to support an individual or group to achieve their outcomes through your own experience and guidance
• You are an owner who is trustworthy, empathetic, curious, tenacious, nimble - if you these PG&E virtues describe you, then you will fit right in our culture and mindset
• You know Lean, love Lean, and have a Lean mindset
• B.A. or B.S. degree or equivalent work experience in computer science, information technology, data science, engineering, or other relevant field
• 8 years of experience in data management, data governance, data quality, metadata management, data security, and/or designing and implementing functional systems and data in a structured process

If that was you, here are some other skills and characteristics we would love to see:

• Certified Data Management Professional!  We love it if you have formalized your DMBOK knowledge with certification.
• 4+ years of leadership experience
• Experience in energy, utilities, or regulated industries
• Detail-oriented with ability to focus on managing multiple groups and processes
• Level-head, manages conflict in a positive manager, and comfortable interacting with people at all levels
• Excellent organizational, verbal, and written communication skills with proven ability to establish and cultivate relationships with vendors and business subject matter experts
• Experience as a project manager or product owner
• Experience with relevant project management tools and methodologies
• Demonstrated executive engagement and presentation skills