Senior Manager of Regulatory Affairs

About Voltus

Voltus represents the "potential of us" to better manage energy through simple, cost-free energy management products. Our commercial and industrial customers generate cash by allowing us to be their energy expert while we deliver innovative energy management. We are a remote-by-design company, which enables us to hire the best candidate without geographic limitations. We hire teammates who are bright, gritty, and good and who have a genuine passion for delivering a cleaner energy future and for working in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

The Role

Voltus has an immediate opening for an enterprising Senior Manager of Regulatory Affairs who is hungry to use policy development, regulatory process, law, relationship building, and a deep fighting spirit to advocate for distributed energy resources at the federal, state, and wholesale market level. The Regulatory team is responsible for advocating for policies that fairly reward innovative energy technologies for the services they provide. This wholesale market regulatory expert will help the team’s work to decarbonize, decentralize, and disrupt the energy sector.

You have a fierce intellectual curiosity and desire to make things work, logically and functionally. You are a creative thinker, and can incorporate ideas across a variety of disciplines through your excellent communication skills. You are self-motivated but collaborative, longing to work in an environment that constantly asks you to learn and give your very best, and with an unparalleled desire to advocate for innovative policies to galvanize our clean energy future. You're an energy nerd (or have a desire to become one!) and want to disrupt the status quo by working hard and having fun while doing it. You must be a successful relationship builder, policy advocate, and able to use the right combination of “sugar and vinegar". Last but not least, you are Bright, Gritty, and Good, and can function well in a fast-paced, virtual environment.

The successful candidate will initially work closely with the Chief Regulatory Officer, but will take on increasingly independent responsibility. This position is an opportunity to take on as much responsibility as you want.

Voltus is a remote company and employees can work from any location in the US or Canada. Voltus teammates need to be authorized to work from their home location. You can expect moderate travel (up to 20%).

Key Responsibilities

• Intervene in state regulatory proceedings to provide comments and other advocacy pleadings supporting the company positions.
• Advocate company positions before staff and other stakeholders at state commission meetings, ISO/RTO stakeholder committee meetings, other forums and at FERC.
• Track initiatives (rulemakings, proposed tariff changes, etc.) in 2-3 wholesale electric markets, participate in stakeholder meetings in those markets and identify and advocate for positions supportive of the company’s business.
• Coordinate closely with the Voltus Energy Markets team on all advocacy and regulatory policy work in wholesale markets and at the state commission level.
• Determine a course of action when necessary, whether individually or by working with trade associations, to influence initiatives and collectively advocate for change.
• Be a public advocate and spokesperson on behalf of the company’s interests, by participating in stakeholder meetings, drafting comments, and meeting with critical players (e.g., Commissioners, RTO employees).
• Master our business by working across the organization ( Energy Markets, Operations, Engineering, Sales, Finance) and use that knowledge in advocacy.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders, including regulatory commission(er)s, federal agencies and officials, state energy officials and legislators, ISO/RTOs, environmental groups, consumer, and trade associations.
• After 3-6 months of onboarding, manage your responsibilities with limited oversight from the Chief Regulatory Officer.

Required Qualifications

• 4-5 years experience in energy policy or regulation, with clear, successful outcomes from direct advocacy.
• A JD (desired) or other graduate degree required.
• Excellent writing skills. You will operate at times as essentially a one-person law firm, and must be able to draft regulatory filings when necessary.
• Excellent oral communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to work with industry and stakeholder partners to grow and/or defend the overall market for distributed energy resources.
• Excellent project management skills. Must be incredibly efficient while also exercising judgment in allocating limited resources.
• Ability to effectively marshal knowledge across a variety of disciplines (engineering, energy markets, finance) and distill it to concise, understandable verbal and written communications.
• Comfort with measurable performance metrics and results-driven accountability.

PLEASE SUBMIT A WRITING SAMPLE WITH YOUR APPLICATION. Ideally comments or pleadings of some kind that you have filed with either a state commission, FERC or at an ISO/RTO. If that’s not possible, please submit another writing sample.