Utility Strategy & Market Design Lead

Madison Energy Infrastructure; Moorestown Township (NJ); Remote; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Madison Energy Infrastructure seeks a Senior Director to own relationships with utilities, ISOs/RTOs, and state regulators, shaping market rules for distributed storage and solar interconnection. The role drives program design and capital allocation decisions, partnering with utilities and commissions to advance the 1 GW plan.

The candidate will assess interconnection viability, work with external stakeholders, and translate regulatory realities into commercial terms for development and finance

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, with coursework or experience in engineering, economics, public policy, or a related field.
• 8+ years in utility regulatory strategy, grid or resource planning, DER program design, market design, or regulatory consulting, including meaningful time inside a utility, commission, or ISO/RTO, or advising them closely.
• A demonstrated track record of changing an outcome: a tariff, program, interconnection standard, or market rule that exists in its current form in part because of your work.
• Technical fluency in distributed storage and solar — interconnection, hosting capacity, aggregation, capacity accreditation — and a working understanding of how each flows through to project economics.
• Ability to write for a regulatory audience and to explain the same content to a commercial team in plain language.
• Self-directed operator comfortable representing MEI alone in a room of utility and commission counterparts, and holding a position respectfully when it matters.
• Willing and able to travel 30–40% for utility, commission, and ISO/RTO engagement.

Responsibilities

• Decide which dockets, filings, rulemakings, and stakeholder processes are worth MEI's time across our priority markets, and keep that view current as new market structures emerge
• Lead viability assessments across every candidate market: document whether and when MEI can interconnect and earn capacity, on a timeline that supports capital allocation decisions
• Represent MEI directly with ISOs, commissions, and utility program teams, building the relationships and credibility that get MEI a seat when programs and tariffs are designed
• Co-design those programs and tariffs so storage and solar read as the utility's solution to capacity, reliability, and local benefit, not an obligation to accommodate
• Build the bench — outside counsel, technical consultants, and AI tools — so the work doesn't run through one person
• Translate regulatory reality into commercial terms for development, commercial, finance, and Digital Infrastructure Partnerships, and brief the CDO, Executive Team, and Board on how those assumptions are evolving

Skills

Storage & solar knowledge

Regulatory writing

Travel 30-40%

Strategic decision making

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering/economics/public policy

Job description

Madison Energy Infrastructure seeks a Senior Director to own relationships with utilities, ISOs/RTOs, and state regulators, shaping market rules for distributed storage and solar interconnection. The role drives program design and capital allocation decisions, partnering with utilities and commissions to advance the 1 GW plan.

The candidate will assess interconnection viability, work with external stakeholders, and translate regulatory realities into commercial terms for development and finance