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 Principal within Electric Compliance and Risk. As the Governance Principal, you will provide organizational leadership and partner closely with risk and compliance teams and other cross-functional stakeholders to elevate the effectiveness of risk and compliance forums. You will lead the management of the Risk and Compliance Committee (RCC) as a platform to surface emerging risks, regulatory shifts, and strategic topics for leadership alignment. Your work will build strong partnerships across Electric Operations, Wildfire, Engineering, and other functions to synthesize key risk and compliance topics, anticipate regulatory changes, and promote enterprise-wide trust and credibility. 

In addition to leading governance forums, the Governance Principal will play a critical role in electric commitments management, ensuring that commitments are clearly owned, transparently tracked, and effectively governed. They will partner with functional leaders to strengthen commitment protocols, reinforce change‑control rigor, and drive alignment between commitments, regulatory expectations, and enterprise‑wide compliance objectives. Furthermore, the Governance Principal will consult on the development and implementation of key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics, advising leaders on best practices for measuring performance and compliance, ensuring metrics are aligned with regulatory requirements and strategic goals, and promoting data-driven decision-making throughout the organization. 

Through your contributions, you will advance enterprise learning, transparency, and continuous improvement, support strategic decision-making, and foster a culture of innovation and accountability. 

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 electric risk and compliance forums to focus leadership discussion on high‑priority, enterprise‑relevant risks and compliance topics. 

• Facilitate executive‑level discussions to surface emerging risks, regulatory themes, and strategic issues requiring alignment or action. 

Enterprise Representation & Alignment 

• Represent Electric Risk and Compliance in enterprise forums and committees, ensuring consistent visibility, alignment, and decision follow‑through. 

• Translate emerging risk and compliance themes 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. 

• Leverage engineering fundamentals and systems thinking to test assumptions, validate root causes, and assess feasibility of proposed mitigations and commitments. 

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

• Partner with Engineering and Operations to translate technical constraints, asset condition, and field execution realities into clear risk tradeoffs, governance recommendations, and leadership-ready decisions. 

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, risk, engineering, and operational topics into clear, structured insights and risk narratives (problem, drivers, controls, residual risk, and actions) that enable proactive leadership engagement and withstand executive and regulatory scrutiny. 

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. 

• Advanced proficiency in data governance, change management, and regulatory horizon scanning. 

• Foster cross-functional alignment by driving collaboration, shared priorities, and cohesive execution. 

• Familiarity with compliance frameworks and risk assessment methodologies. 

• Experience developing and coordinating executive-level presentation materials. 

• Strong facilitation, communication, and influencing skills. 

• Knowledge of utility or energy industry drivers, issues, and trends. 

• Experience working with CPUC, FERC, NERC, or similar regulatory bodies. 

• Proven experience designing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise KPI frameworks and metrics. 

• Familiarity in BI tools (Power BI/Tableau) and presentation design. 

Certifications & Licenses

• Project Management Professional (PMP) 

• CRMP (Certified Risk Management Professional)