Director, Energy Rates & Billing: Strategic Power Pricing

Switch; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous benefits package

Flexible remote arrangements

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Switch is building the future of digital infrastructure through energy‑savvy data center operations. We seek a Director of Energy Rates & Billing to lead rate design, forecasting, and billing controls across our nationwide campuses.

You’ll own complex rate models, reconcile invoices, and partner with Energy, Finance, Operations, and Sales to deliver accurate customer pricing and transparent reporting. Excellent communication and senior‑level financial acumen are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience in utility rates, energy billing, power markets, energy finance, cost allocation, revenue requirements, energy procurement, or a related analytical role.
• Strong understanding of electric utility tariffs, rate structures, billing determinants, demand and energy charges, transmission and distribution costs, wholesale market charges, and customer energy cost drivers.
• Experience developing or managing complex rate, billing, cost‑of‑service, cost‑allocation, revenue, or energy pricing models involving multiple cost components and customer contracts.
• Working knowledge of power supply economics, including utility service, wholesale power, power purchase agreements, on‑site generation, natural gas, capacity, ancillary services, renewable energy credits, storage, and transmission‑related charges.
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills with the ability to communicate complex financial and energy information to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Engineering, Energy, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and administration of customer energy rates, pricing methodologies, and billing structures across Switch campuses.
• Develop and maintain cost‑allocation models for purchased power, generation, capacity, transmission, distribution, congestion, ancillary services, fuel, losses, renewable energy credits, environmental attributes, storage, taxes, fees, and other energy‑related costs.
• Interpret utility tariffs, power purchase agreements, tolling arrangements, and on‑site generation economics to establish accurate customer billing methodologies.
• Develop short‑ and long‑term energy rate forecasts by campus and customer, incorporating load growth, generation mix, commodity prices, utility rate changes, transmission costs, renewable requirements, market conditions, and contractual escalators.
• Own and improve customer energy billing models, calculators, workpapers, and controls used for monthly billing, customer proposals, budgeting, contract negotiations, and executive decisions.

Skills

Financial modeling

Rate design

Data analysis

Billing systems

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Engineering, Energy, Mathematics

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Switch is building the future of digital infrastructure through energy‑savvy data center operations. We seek a Director of Energy Rates & Billing to lead rate design, forecasting, and billing controls across our nationwide campuses.

You’ll own complex rate models, reconcile invoices, and partner with Energy, Finance, Operations, and Sales to deliver accurate customer pricing and transparent reporting. Excellent communication and senior‑level financial acumen are essential.