Principal Program Manager, Enterprise Data

Requisition ID # 161970 

Job Category: Project / Program Management 

Job Level: Manager/Principal

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

Are you passionate about using data to change the world?  Do you evangelize making data trustworthy? Do you love influencing the strategic direction of a company through executive influence and change management? Are you the sort of person who brings order to chaos and uses systematic approaches to organize work? Do you get up in the morning excited to solve problems? Do you get stuff done, no matter who you have to talk to, what red tape you have to wrecking ball through, or what process you have to invent?  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.

PG&E has been collecting data since the telegraph was a primary means of communication. We have lots of data, and we are embarking on a strategic journey to revolutionize how we manage and store it. The business must organize to manage data, and this Principal Program Manager will lead, organize, and coach this initiative. This person will design, build, and mature the organizational structures to manage data at the enterprise level. Leveraging this organizational structure, this person will strategically manage projects to master the company's most critical data, including setting standards, building the data model, ensuring architectural and integration alignment, and strategically improving the quality of the data. Most importantly, this person will understand the problems and challenges of the business and lead functional areas to articulate the value of the company's data as an asset. Think of a "data czar". This role will be the data czar's righthand person, the executor, the person who takes the strategic vision of data management and turns it into reality one win at a time. This person will get stuff done, and it will matter. It will change the world.

The role is hybrid working from your remote office and in-person at the Oakland General Office, 0-3 days on average per week based on business needs.

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:       $140,000  

Bay Area Maximum:       $238,000

Now that we have your attention, let us 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.

Job Responsibilities

• You coach people and teams:
  • You actively listen:  Listen empathetically, motivating others through assuring them they are heard and valued.
  • You create high performing teams:  Design and lead cross-functional teams to address data management challenges and maintain data as a trusted, valuable product long term.
  • 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 lead through change:
  • You organize and plan:  Manage the emotion of change, direct the rational need for direction, and create the environment for success.
  • 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 ensure value is realized:
  • You own and execute strategy:  In collaboration with executive leadership, develop the vision and strategy for enterprise data as a product that provides value for the company.
  • You use a value-first mindset:  Collaborate with the business to understand and define strategic problems that enterprise data products will solve and value propositions that will be fulfilled.
  • You come with data:  Develop the metrics and supporting data to demonstrate clear gains in business value through data management initiatives.
• You inspire cross-functional focus:
  • You bring order to chaos:  Use influence, tact, and interpersonal skills to get many different groups around the company with competing agendas and time constraints rowing in the same direction.
  • You use a diverse work management toolkit without getting lost in religious devotion to methodology:  Leverage lean and Agile mindsets as well as breakthrough thinking to lead teams and solve data problems efficiently and with focused quality.
  • You bring structure to work:  Organize work by bringing together work tracking in many different forms to understand both the big picture and the detail that poses risk in execution.
  • You create the environment to master data:  Design and implement a network of data domain ownership and data stewardship within the company leveraging localized expertise and organically maturing data management roles.
  • You relentlessly lead execution: Partner with functional area and major program leadership to develop a roadmap to accomplish data management goals and systematically track, monitor, and adjust its execution
  • You get the company involved:  Cross-functionally build and lead a data product stakeholder network, including external partners, business subject matter experts, executive sponsors, and business process owners
• You evangelize data management:
  • You champion data as a value-producing asset:  Lead and influence the culture of enterprise data as a product throughout the company.
  • You design to cross-functionally manage data:  Assess the critical data areas and the cross-functional ownership and interdependence for managing datasets and identify gaps in data management capabilities.
  • You get data under management:  Collaborate with the Enterprise Data Management team to bring critical data under management within the guidelines and parameters of the company’s Critical Data Management key performance indicator.
  • You promote long-term growth of a data culture:  In collaboration with the Enterprise Data Management team, develop a roadmap for maturity as assessed by the company’s data management maturity model.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 10 years job-related experience or equivalent

Desired:

• 10+ years project and program management experience
• 5+ years data management experience, CDMP certification is a plus
• 5+ years Electric and or Gas Utility experience
• History of regularly interfacing with and presenting to executives, including CEO and direct reports.
• Ability to express complex concepts effectively, both verbally and in writing to diverse audiences
• Complex cross functional deployment experience with strong dependencies on other major programs
• Direct leadership experience (5+ direct reports)
• Master’s degree in job-related discipline or equivalent experience

The person who is best fit for this role will likely feel more comfortable in the accession process through preparation.  With that in mind, this should be one of the most straightforward experiences you have had in terms of demonstrating excellent fit. The following clearly outlines what we will look for as we partner to determine a path forward.

• Regard the five bullets in the job responsibilities as a scorecard; you differentiate yourself by explaining how you do each of those items well with proof from your job experience
• You can prepare your mind by familiarizing yourself with the Data Management Body of Knowledge to understand the domain, "California Burning" to understand the company-level data issues, and the body of knowledge surrounding lean as a mindset for team and organization operations and as a quality management framework
• You demonstrate how you will work with people, teams, and stakeholders by treating our introductory sessions, not at a question-and-answer forum, but rather as a collaboration to determine fit and how we would work together

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