Energy Regulation Architect for Global AI Infrastructure

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking an Energy Regulatory Lead to own regulatory strategy for its infrastructure growth. The role bridges the Power Execution team with Public Policy and Government Affairs to translate evolving policy into actionable infrastructure decisions.

This individual contributor role leads diligence, coordinates filings, and guides projects through tariffs, interconnection, and market rules across priority U.S.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in energy regulation or related roles.
• Deep understanding of U.S. electric utility regulation, tariffs, PUC processes, RTO/ISO structures.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the company’s energy regulatory strategy across priority U.S. markets and, as needed, emerging geographies for infrastructure expansion.
• Coordinate closely with Public Policy and Government Affairs to shape energy regulatory priorities, engagement plans, messaging, and positions before utilities, public utility commissions, grid operators, state energy offices, and other policymakers.
• Translate project requirements—load size, timing, reliability, cost, carbon, and expansion needs—into clear regulatory objectives and external engagement strategies.
• Lead regulatory diligence for powered-land, data center, utility, supply, and energy-infrastructure opportunities; identify applicable tariffs, service rules, approval pathways, filing requirements, queue and interconnection constraints, and material regulatory risks.
• Support transactional work with Legal, Commercial, Procurement, Finance, and project teams, including regulatory review of utility service agreements, special contracts, tariff arrangements, interconnection agreements, PPAs, supply structures, and related energy transactions.
• Coordinate regulatory submissions, testimony, comments, data requests, stakeholder meetings, and approval processes with internal teams, outside counsel, consultants, utilities, and other counterparties.
• Monitor utility rate cases, integrated resource plans, transmission and interconnection proceedings, RTO/ISO market developments, capacity and reliability rules, and state and federal policy changes that could affect cost, schedule, reliability, or growth.
• Build decision frameworks and executive-ready analyses that compare regulatory pathways, clarify tradeoffs, surface escalation points, and support go / no-go and investment decisions.
• Develop durable relationships with utilities, regulators, grid operators, policymakers, industry groups, and external advisors while coordinating carefully with the company’s public-policy and government-affairs owners.
• Create repeatable playbooks, trackers, and governance for regulatory diligence, transaction support, approvals, and cross-functional escalation across the infrastructure portfolio.

Skills

Energy regulation

Utility strategy

Power markets

Tariffs

Interconnection

PPA knowledge

Policy analysis

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking an Energy Regulatory Lead to own regulatory strategy for its infrastructure growth. The role bridges the Power Execution team with Public Policy and Government Affairs to translate evolving policy into actionable infrastructure decisions.

This individual contributor role leads diligence, coordinates filings, and guides projects through tariffs, interconnection, and market rules across priority U.S.