Senior Rate Design & Pricing Strategist

TEP Tucson Electric Power Company; Tucson (AZ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Tucson Electric Power Company is seeking a Principal, Rate Analysis & Strategy to shape long-term pricing and rate design. You will work with Regulatory Affairs, Finance, and Leadership to guide revenue recovery, affordability, and electrification efforts while balancing customer value and regulatory expectations.

The ideal candidate brings 10+ years in utility pricing and strong analytical and communication skills to influence executive decisions and develop innovative pricing approaches.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Economics, Finance, Business, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Energy Systems, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in utility pricing, rate design, regulatory affairs, energy economics, customer analytics, or related disciplines, including experience leading increasingly complex analytical and strategic work.
• Demonstrated expertise in cost-of-service principles, rate design methodology, tariff development, and utility economics.
• Ability to independently develop and communicate complex rate design, pricing, and customer-impact analyses.
• Ability to translate complex analytical and regulatory concepts into clear recommendations for executive, regulatory, and nontechnical audiences.
• Experience supporting regulatory proceedings and rate cases.
• Advanced analytical and financial modeling skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a subject matter expert and strategic advisor on utility rate design, pricing strategy, and customer economics.
• Lead development of long-term pricing and rate design strategies that emphasize financial sustainability, customer affordability, efficient cost recovery, and regulatory objectives.
• Translate cost-of-service results, load characteristics, customer usage patterns, and revenue requirements into rate design recommendations.
• Evaluate and recommend innovative pricing structures, including time-of-use, demand-based, dynamic, electrification, and distributed energy resource tariffs.
• Provide advanced technical expertise for rate cases, regulatory filings, tariff development, and stakeholder engagement activities.
• Lead complex analyses assessing financial, operational, and customer impacts of pricing initiatives.
• Develop business cases supporting new tariffs, customer programs, and strategic initiatives.
• Influence executive decision-making through data-driven recommendations and thought leadership.
• Develop and maintain models and analytical frameworks used to evaluate rate structures and customer impacts.
• Monitor emerging industry, technology, customer, and regulatory trends and assess their implications for the organization’s pricing strategy.
• Represent the organization as a subject matter expert in regulatory proceedings, industry forums, and stakeholder discussions.
• Serve as a technical resource and mentor to employees working on rate design, tariff development, and pricing analysis.

Skills

Rate design

Pricing strategy

Customer economics

Financial modeling

Regulatory affairs

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Economics, Finance, Business, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Energy Systems, or related field

Job description

Tucson Electric Power Company is seeking a Principal, Rate Analysis & Strategy to shape long-term pricing and rate design. You will work with Regulatory Affairs, Finance, and Leadership to guide revenue recovery, affordability, and electrification efforts while balancing customer value and regulatory expectations.

The ideal candidate brings 10+ years in utility pricing and strong analytical and communication skills to influence executive decisions and develop innovative pricing approaches.