Director Enterprise System Standards

Location: Denver, Colorado, United States

Salary: $148,400–$210,733.33 per year

Company

hirify.global is an electricity and natural gas energy company serving 3.4 million electricity customers and 1.9 million natural gas customers across eight Western and Midwestern states.

What you will do

• Lead the development, publication, governance, and refinement of enterprise System Standards for generation, transmission, distribution, gas, DERs, storage, load, and controls.
• Define system intent, capability and performance targets, resilience criteria, and a build-it-once design basis across planning cycles.
• Operate the multidisciplinary Planning Council, including its charter, cadence, agendas, decision materials, minutes, and action tracking.
• Manage the end-to-end System Standards work cycle from signal intake and governance approval through ISP integration, KPI tracking, and scheduled refreshes.
• Build and lead a multidisciplinary team of engineers, analysts, economists, and consultants while establishing stakeholder RACI and developing subordinate leadership.
• Partner with integrated planning, model innovation, operations, regulatory, finance, and operating companies to align standards with business and regional requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, economics, or a related discipline; an advanced degree is preferred.
• At least 10 years of utility industry experience, including 5 or more years of leadership experience in strategy, standards, or integrated planning.
• Expertise across at least two of generation, transmission, distribution, and gas.
• Experience with scenario-based planning, futures methodologies, and cross-commodity portfolio evaluation.
• Experience designing and operating cross-functional governance forums with defined charters, decision rights, cadences, and action management.
• Strong financial, regulatory, organizational, leadership, written, verbal communication, and executive-influence skills.

Nice to have

• Experience developing enterprise or system-level standards, planning criteria, or design-basis frameworks.
• Familiarity with peer utility approaches to housing, refreshing, and enforcing enterprise standards.
• Continuous improvement experience involving PD Tree, KPIs, and management-of-change processes.
• Previous operations experience with linear or fixed assets.

Culture & Benefits

• Annual and long-term incentive programs.
• Medical, pharmacy, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, and employee assistance benefits.
• HSA, FSA, dependent care, transportation, and transit reimbursement programs.
• Pension, 401(k), paid time off, holidays, parental leave, and volunteer paid time off.
• Tuition reimbursement, fitness center reimbursement, and employee recognition programs.