Strategic Analyst, Principal

California’s evolving wildfire risk environment—driven by extreme weather, drought conditions, vegetation stress, and expanding exposure across the electric system—requires PG&E to continuously improve how it reduces ignition risk and protects customers, communities, and the environment. The Wildfire Mitigation department leads critical work to understand, reduce, and manage wildfire risk across PG&E’s service territory. The organization supports the company’s broader wildfire safety strategy through risk-informed decision-making, operational improvements, regulatory engagement, and data-driven programs that strengthen system safety and resilience.

Within Wildfire Mitigation, the Ignitions Investigations team is responsible for investigating, analyzing, and reporting ignition-related information to help PG&E identify trends, understand drivers, meet regulatory obligations, and inform risk-reduction strategies. The team partners across Electric Operations, Vegetation Management, Asset Risk Management, Risk and Data Analytics, ATS, Engineering, Regulatory, and other stakeholders to support accurate and timely ignition analysis, reporting, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Undertakes assignments of the highest complexity and impact to PG&E.
• Coaches, mentors, and trains others in strategy development and implementation of Lean tools and practices.
• Evaluates and develops new analytic methods and tools, processes, and procedures for the department.
• Solves unique and complex strategic issues and problems.
• Manages major cross-functional projects and initiatives.
• Works with all levels of leadership (up to and including EVP) across functions to influence decisions.
• Anticipates issues and develops innovative solutions.
• Continually applies and guides others to apply understanding of company goals and strategies.
• Collaborates and influences policy and program strategy at other utilities and regulatory agencies.
• Leads development of testimony on complex analysis and policy issues.
• Pilots innovative approaches to wildfire risk reduction.
• Tracks and maintains the wildfire Tactical Implementation Plan (TIP) and containment strategies.
• Ignition data collection, quality review, trend analysis, and reporting.
• Ignition analysis and development of insights that inform wildfire risk reduction.
• Regulatory reporting, compliance support, and response to external data requests.
• Cross-functional coordination with field, engineering, operations, vegetation management, asset, and regulatory teams.
• Process improvement and development of tools, standards, and procedures that improve investigation consistency and data accuracy.
• Drive innovative approaches to prevent and mitigate ignition impacts.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Business, Finance, Policy, Engineering, Physics, or other related fields or equivalent work experience.
• 8 years of job-related experience.
• Ability to travel up to 40% of working time.

Qualifications

• Graduate Degree in Engineering, Economics, or job-related discipline or equivalent experience.
• Utility operations/engineering experience.
• 10 years of job-related technical experience.
• Ability to lead department-wide modeling and data initiatives of the highest complexity and impact.
• Ability to present highly complex data and findings to diverse audiences, which may include upper management, industry, and regulatory stakeholders.
• Ability to use understanding of the business to help drive strategic decision-making and to recommend operational improvements.
• Deep knowledge and expertise of business and/or industry drivers, regulatory policy, and policy strategy and development processes.
• Ability to analyze business processes and recommend improvements to gain efficiency and effectiveness.
• Ability to lead and implement key process improvements.
• Ability to integrate macro and microeconomic factors and statistical analysis into decision-making.

Pay

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. 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.

• Bay Area: $140,000 – $238,000
• California (outside Bay Area): $133,000 – $226,000

This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E’s discretionary incentive compensation programs.

Schedule

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The assigned work location will be within the PG&E Service Territory.