Senior Manager, Data Science - AI & Data Science Center of Excellence

Requisition ID# 169174

Job Category : Accounting / Finance

Job Level : Senior Manager

Business Unit : Information Technology

Work Type : Hybrid

Job Location : Oakland

Department Overview

The Enterprise Data Science & Artificial Intelligence (EDS&AI) organization is both an AI "Delivery" team and a "Center of Excellence" team that supports other practitioners in an enterprise-wide Hub & Spoke analytics adoption model.

As a Delivery team, this Department uses industry leading data science and Generative AI (GenAI) to drive PG&E's AI transformation enabling customer affordability, system reliability, and public safety. The Department works cross-functionally across the company to enable data driven decisions applying machine learning (ML), GenAI and agentic AI. Deployed to some of PG&E's highest priority areas, the Department does not specialize in one traditional utility domain, such as asset management or program administration, but instead specializes in extracting useful insights from disparate data sets and facilitating actions informed by these insights.

As a Center of Excellence team, this Department listens to the needs of data science and AI practitioners across the company, along with emerging industry practices, and builds standards, processes, tools, knowledge and best practices that meet the current and future needs of the enterprise.This team works on a wide variety of difficult problems, offering great variety in the work, and constant opportunity to explore and learn.

Current and past engagements include :

• Building AI-augmented workflows leveraging LLM-based insights to remediate gas service record inaccuracies.
• Creating wildfire risk models that are used by regulators and the utility to prioritize asset management.
• Developing computer vision models that improve, accelerate, and automate asset inspections processes.
• Predicting electric distribution equipment failure before it occurs, allowing for proactive maintenance.
• Forming the analytical framework behind PG&E's Transmission Public Safety Power Shutoff
• Identifying and investigating anomalous customer natural gas usage, to resolve dangerous customer side leaks.

Position Summary and Job Responsibilities Specific to the Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Manager, Data Science to lead the AI & Data Science Center of Excellence for the company.

Leadership

AI Governance

Consulting / Advisory

MLOps and LLMOps

AI-Ready Workforce

AI Leadership

In this position, you will play a vital role developing policies, standards, and processes that internal data science teams as well as contracted vendors will comply to for the effective design and development of data science and AI algorithms. Additionally, and in partnership with the People's Organization (HRBP & Compensation), this role will also be key in the evaluation of enterprise data science skills and knowledge to help build trust of those competencies for internal decision-making processes as the industry evolves.You will have an unparallel opportunity to lead frameworks and guidelines for governance as well as operational and product excellence (i.e. AI product lifecycle evaluation, along with scalability, validity, and other performance measures) and provide thought leadership in emerging technologies that will influence delivery of solutions across the company. Because of that, this role is perfectly suited to someone who has large experience leading data science AI / ML and GenAI modeling work and would like now to make a contribution to the data science community as a technical expert and thought leader, managing a small team of data scientists who drive best practices in decision making excellence in the company, rather than delivering solutions themselves directly.

Position Details & Standard Work Descriptives

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and the Oakland General Office (OGO) based on business needs or company requirements.

PG&E is providing the full salary / pay range for this position. The actual amount paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, internal equity,specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, and geographic location. The range to reasonably expect will be around the minimum and the midpoint $170,000 - $230,000. The final decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to the factors above. This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E's discretionary incentive compensation programs.

Bay Area Min : $ 170,000

Bay Area Mid : $ 230,000

Bay Area Max : $ 290,000

Job Responsibilities (generic to the role, from the DS Job Family Catalog)

Qualifications

Minimum :

Desired :

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and (Technical) Competencies :