Program Director – Grid Flexibility

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🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $200k - $260k / year

⏰ Full Time

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📋 Program Manager

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201 - 500 employees

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

⚡ Energy

Consulting • Logistics • Energy

Kraken is an innovative technology platform designed for the utility sector, providing an end-to-end solution that automates and enhances the energy supply chain. It manages over 60 million customer accounts and works with various energy sources, including offshore wind and grid-scale batteries. Kraken helps utilities improve operational efficiency, customer service, and innovative product development while contributing to the transition to a decentralized and decarbonized energy system.

📋 Description

• Own the program end-to-end from day one through implementation and long-term value realization • Manage delivery timelines, decision-making, coordination, and execution • Produce documentation, artifacts, and assets while bridging functional gaps • Build credibility and relationships with a highly regulated major US electric utility • Navigate the utility’s complex operational layers • Align product, engineering/technology, delivery, and customer-facing teams • Steer product and delivery trade-offs through cross-functional influence • Own the business case, value realization, customer expansion, and revenue linkage • Lead a first-of-a-kind, control-room-heavy grid flexibility deployment consolidating and dispatching supply- and demand-side flexible assets

🎯 Requirements

• In-depth, senior-level experience at Director, Senior Director, or Head-of level in program, implementation, delivery, or utility-transformation leadership • Deep experience in grid modernisation programs • Strong understanding of Demand Response, DERs, VPPs, DERMS, AMI, and grid operations • Proven experience managing regulated US electric-utility stakeholders • Experience navigating the operational, control-room side of a utility • Recent end-to-end ownership of a complex grid program, including planning, governance, and cross-functional execution • History of commercial or solution ownership, P&L exposure, or value realisation accountability • Applicants must have the right to work in the country they are applying to at the time of application; visa sponsorship is unavailable • Based on the US East Coast is a bonus • Specific exposure to Virginia, Mid-Atlantic, or broader East Coast utility ecosystems is a bonus • Experience leading grid-side flexibility work aimed at physical or locational grid constraints is a bonus • Recognized credibility in the US utility or flexibility ecosystem is a bonus • Ability and willingness to travel to the client in the Northeast every approximately two weeks for a few days at a time

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance options including FSAs • Paid time off • 401(k) plan with employer match • Parental leave for biological, adoptive, and foster parents • Pre-tax commuter benefits • Flexible working environment • Equity options • Modern office or co-working spaces depending on location

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