Manager – Energy Markets & Utility Planning

Location: Reston, Virginia, United States (hybrid) or remote within the United States. Travel is expected for client meetings and select industry events.

Salary: $108,476–$184,409 per year for full-time employment.

Company

hirify.global is an advisory and technology services provider helping clients solve complex challenges, navigate change, and shape the future.

What you will do

• Lead client-facing projects connecting long-term planning and market analysis to utility decisions involving resource strategy, procurement, market exposure, and investments.
• Apply and interpret capacity expansion, production cost, and related market models; shape scenarios and assumptions.
• Translate complex analytical results into practical recommendations for planning, regulatory, and business audiences.
• Build client relationships, identify opportunities, contribute to proposals, and support business development.
• Develop external-facing content and participate in conferences, workshops, webinars, and industry discussions.
• Lead and mentor junior staff while coordinating project teams and ensuring high-quality deliverables.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in energy systems, engineering, economics, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in power markets, utility planning, or energy consulting.
• Prior utility or consulting experience applying long-term planning tools and production cost models to power system planning questions.
• Experience leading work for utilities and other power-sector clients on planning, market, or regulatory questions.
• Ability to lead project tasks or workstreams, coordinate cross-functional teams, and support junior staff development.
• Ability to work from Reston, Virginia in a hybrid arrangement or remotely from within the United States.

Nice to have

• Graduate degree in a relevant field.
• Experience with integrated system planning and utility resource decision-making.
• Experience supporting regulatory proceedings, including filings, testimony development, discovery support, or expert analysis.
• Experience with long-term economic transmission planning, load forecasting, scenario planning, or probabilistic and stochastic modeling.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative workplace focused on sharing expertise and achieving professional goals.
• Equal opportunity employment environment with reasonable accommodations available throughout the application and employment process.
• Travel opportunities for client meetings and selected industry events.