Principal, Compliance Risk and Consultant - Governance (Flexible Location)

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

About PG&E

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) delivers safe, reliable, and clean energy to nearly 16 million people in Northern and Central California. We are committed to building a sustainable energy future and fostering a culture of safety, integrity, and innovation.

Position Summary

PG&E is seeking an experienced risk and compliance professional to serve as Governance Principal within Electric Compliance and Risk. This role is responsible for designing and stewarding the framework for communicating and reporting compliance and risk  activities to senior leadership, including establishing clear standards, narratives, and reporting structures that translate complex compliance, risk, and performance information into concise, decision‑ready insights for executive and officer‑level forums.

In addition, the Governance Principal provides organizational leadership and partners closely with risk and compliance teams and cross‑functional stakeholders to elevate the effectiveness of risk and compliance forums. This role leads the Risk and Compliance Committee (RCC) as a platform to surface emerging risks, regulatory shifts, and strategic topics for leadership alignment. Through strong partnerships across Electric Operations, Wildfire, Engineering, and other functions, the Governance Principal synthesizes key risk and compliance topics, anticipates regulatory change, and promotes enterprise‑wide trust and credibility.

Through these contributions, the Governance Principal advances enterprise learning, transparency, and continuous improvement; supports strategic decision‑making; and fosters 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

• Curate and lead effective risk and compliance forums, including agenda design, coordination of cross‑functional input, and follow‑through on decisions.
• Facilitate executive‑level meetings, leveraging the RCC to elevate high‑priority risks, regulatory obligations, and decisions requiring leadership alignment.

Enterprise Representation & Alignment

• Serve as the lead representative for the Enterprise Commitment Information Center (CIC).
• Ensure strong alignment and information flow between RCC and CIC to support enterprise‑wide compliance and risk management objectives.

Governance & Compliance Strategy (Commitments and KPI/Metrics)

• Develop and coordinate presentation materials for management and senior executives.
• Strengthen commitment management protocols, ensuring consistency, change‑control rigor, and integration with enterprise risk and compliance processes.
• Consult with cross‑functional teams on KPIs, KRIs, and maturity metrics that reflect strategic compliance and risk objectives.
• Define governance protocols for metric validation, change control, and cross‑functional accountability.

Compliance Communication & Reporting Framework

• Design and maintain the enterprise framework for executive‑level communication and reporting of compliance activities, risks, and performance.
• Establish standards for compliance narratives, reporting cadence, and content to ensure consistency, clarity, and decision‑orientation across leadership forums.
• Translate complex compliance, regulatory, and risk information into clear, structured, and actionable insights for senior leaders.
• Partner with Compliance, Risk, Operations, and Analytics teams to ensure reporting accurately reflects regulatory expectations, enterprise priorities, and emerging risks.
• Continuously improve executive reporting approaches to enhance transparency, alignment, and leadership decision‑making.

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.
• Proven experience designing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise KPI frameworks and metrics.
• Familiarity in BI tools (Power BI/Tableau) and presentation design.
• Knowledge of utility or energy industry drivers, issues, and trends.
• Experience working with CPUC, FERC, NERC, or similar regulatory bodies.

Certifications & Licenses

• Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional (CCEP)
• Lean Six Sigma Certification
• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• CRMP (Certified Risk Management Professional)