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Job Description
The Senior Director of Market Policy at Voltus is responsible for shaping and leading the company's strategy on electricity market policies across North America, focusing on demand-side resource integration, market design, and stakeholder engagement to support the company's growth and influence in evolving wholesale energy markets.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead Voltus's market policy strategy across North American wholesale electricity markets, ensuring alignment with evolving market structures and long-term growth objectives.
- Develop, document, and promote Voltus's vision for demand-side resource policy formulation, implementation, and monetization in electricity markets.
- Partner with Energy Markets and Regulatory Affairs teams to assess the commercial impact of policy proposals and determine engagement strategies.
- Manage and track the policy roadmap across jurisdictions, advising leadership on prioritization and stakeholder engagement.
- Create strategic messaging around affordability, reliability, and speed-to-power, and ensure consistent positioning across stakeholder interactions.
- Build and maintain senior-level relationships with government officials, industry stakeholders, and large customers.
- Participate in ISO RTO working groups and contribute to proposal development in coordination with internal teams.
Requirements
- Candidates must have 8 to 15 years of experience in energy policy, wholesale market design, infrastructure strategy, or public affairs within a technology or advanced energy environment.
- Deep familiarity with capacity markets and ISO RTO structures, with preference for experience in PJM, NYISO, MISO, ERCOT, or SPP.
- An established network of bipartisan executive-level relationships across state, federal, and/or market institutions.
- Commercial awareness and the ability to connect policy developments to revenue, product strategy, and speed-to-power.
- Ability to convert technical market complexity into simple, durable talking points that resonate with policymakers and partners.
- Experience managing people.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including comfort with public speaking.
- Willingness to travel frequently.
- Comfort using data and analysis to make policy arguments.
- Desire to work in a fast-paced, rapidly-evolving sector that requires constant learning.
- Candidates must be authorized to work from their home location in the United States or Canada; Voltus does not sponsor visas or transfers for new hires.
- Candidates must be based in the United States, with a preference for someone in the Mid-Atlantic Washington, DC area.
- Working while traveling to other countries must be approved as per Voltus's Global Remote Travel Policy.
Benefits & Perks
Remote work opportunity
Some travel required
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