📍 Location: Remote (U.S.-based), with periodic travel for industry, stakeholder, and client meetings
💰 Base Salary: $110,000–$175,000, based on experience and qualifications, plus annual performance bonus eligibility and benefits
💡 Start Date: As soon as possible
About the Role
GQS New Energy Strategies is hiring a Senior Associate, Market Design & Regulatory Strategy to help clients navigate regulatory and policy issues associated with wholesale market design, transmission, interconnection, large-load integration, and grid reliability. This person will analyze fast-moving developments, determine how they affect each client's objectives, and help develop and execute effective strategies.
The role will include significant work in PJM, including coverage of stakeholder processes and evolving market, planning, and reliability rules. Depending on the successful candidate's experience and interests, the portfolio may also include work across other RTO/ISO and non-RTO regions and proceedings before FERC.
This is a high-autonomy, client-facing role in a small, collaborative firm. The successful candidate will work directly with the firm's principals and help clients move from understanding an issue to deciding what to do and executing that strategy. The work may include analysis, stakeholder engagement, regulatory strategy, coalition building, advocacy, and direct client support.
We are open to candidates at different levels of seniority and will calibrate the final title, responsibilities, and compensation accordingly. The strongest candidates will bring meaningful electricity-market experience, excellent judgment and communication skills, and the initiative to develop deep subject-matter and regional expertise.
Core Areas of Responsibility
Policy Research & Market Tracking
What we're looking for
Compensation & Benefits
GQS offers competitive compensation and a flexible, fully remote work environment. The anticipated base salary range is $110,000–$175,000. The final title and salary will reflect the successful candidate's experience, expertise, and expected level of responsibility.
GQS offers:
About GQS New Energy Strategies
GQS New Energy Strategies is a boutique consulting firm that helps clients succeed in the rapidly changing electricity sector. We advise companies and organizations on wholesale market design, transmission and interconnection policy, grid reliability, large-load integration, and federal and regional regulatory and policy strategy. Our team combines deep government, industry, RTO, and stakeholder-process experience with practical analysis, strategic judgment, and hands-on support for execution. Our role is not simply to describe policy developments or take positions on them; it is to help clients determine what those developments mean for their goals and what they should do next.
Since forming in 2023, GQS New Energy Strategies has helped a variety of clients including clean energy project developers, energy storage providers, infrastructure investors, large loads, and trade associations representing energy developers and end consumers achieve their regulatory and policy goals.
How to Apply
Please fill out the form below and upload your resume and cover letter. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
💰 Base Salary: $110,000–$175,000, based on experience and qualifications, plus annual performance bonus eligibility and benefits
💡 Start Date: As soon as possible
About the Role
GQS New Energy Strategies is hiring a Senior Associate, Market Design & Regulatory Strategy to help clients navigate regulatory and policy issues associated with wholesale market design, transmission, interconnection, large-load integration, and grid reliability. This person will analyze fast-moving developments, determine how they affect each client's objectives, and help develop and execute effective strategies.
The role will include significant work in PJM, including coverage of stakeholder processes and evolving market, planning, and reliability rules. Depending on the successful candidate's experience and interests, the portfolio may also include work across other RTO/ISO and non-RTO regions and proceedings before FERC.
This is a high-autonomy, client-facing role in a small, collaborative firm. The successful candidate will work directly with the firm's principals and help clients move from understanding an issue to deciding what to do and executing that strategy. The work may include analysis, stakeholder engagement, regulatory strategy, coalition building, advocacy, and direct client support.
We are open to candidates at different levels of seniority and will calibrate the final title, responsibilities, and compensation accordingly. The strongest candidates will bring meaningful electricity-market experience, excellent judgment and communication skills, and the initiative to develop deep subject-matter and regional expertise.
Core Areas of Responsibility
Policy Research & Market Tracking
- Monitor wholesale electricity-market and regulatory developments across RTO/ISO and non-RTO regions, with particular attention to PJM activities related to market design, resource adequacy, transmission planning, interconnection, reliability, and large-load integration.
- Attend and cover priority stakeholder meetings, including significant PJM coverage, both virtually and in person.
- Identify the issues, decisions, risks, and follow-up actions that matter to clients rather than simply reporting what occurred.
- Track relevant FERC proceedings and explain how federal actions may affect regional policies and market outcomes.
- Conduct cross-regional research and comparative analysis to evaluate policy proposals, market structures, and emerging trends.
- Translate complex technical, market, and regulatory developments into concise, decision-useful advice tailored to each client's objectives.
- Prepare initial drafts of certain recurring reporting, including meeting summaries, client updates, newsletters, and customized reports. The initial portfolio is expected to include a meaningful share of the firm's PJM reporting.
- Conduct targeted research and analysis to evaluate policy proposals and their implications for clients.
- Develop presentations, briefing materials, issue papers, comment letters, and client engagement strategies.
- Identify emerging issues early and recommend where clients should engage.
- Understand each client's objectives, constraints, and risk tolerance, and connect regulatory and market developments to the decisions the client needs to make.
- Support and, with experience, lead client workstreams, strategy development, and briefings.
- Help clients execute their strategies through stakeholder meetings, FERC proceedings, regulatory filings, public-comment opportunities, and targeted outreach.
- Support coalition strategy by mapping stakeholder positions, identifying areas of alignment, and helping coordinate engagement.
- Develop productive relationships across the electricity-sector stakeholder community, including in PJM.
- Contribute market-design and regulatory expertise across the firm's client portfolio.
- Collaborate with colleagues working on interconnection, transmission, reliability, large loads, and other regional markets.
- Help strengthen the firm's internal systems for tracking proceedings, sharing intelligence, and delivering consistently excellent work.
What we're looking for
- Significant relevant experience in electricity markets, energy policy, regulatory affairs, law, utility, or RTO operations. Experience with PJM is highly preferred, but not required.
- Experience in RTO/ISO stakeholder processes or other significant electricity-market or regulatory proceedings.
- Exceptional writing and communication skills, including the ability to distill complicated issues into clear, concise analysis for sophisticated clients.
- Strong client-service orientation and sound judgment, with the ability to assess policy and regulatory developments against clients' practical objectives, identify what matters, and determine where follow-up or strategic action is needed.
- Ability to manage multiple fast-moving workstreams independently and reliably, with limited day-to-day oversight.
- Initiative and intellectual curiosity. We are looking for someone who will spot issues, propose next steps, and take ownership rather than wait for narrowly defined assignments.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in public policy, energy systems, engineering, economics, environmental studies, or a related field.
Compensation & Benefits
GQS offers competitive compensation and a flexible, fully remote work environment. The anticipated base salary range is $110,000–$175,000. The final title and salary will reflect the successful candidate's experience, expertise, and expected level of responsibility.
GQS offers:
- Employer-supported health insurance coverage
- Employee retirement program
- Annual performance bonus eligibility
- Flexible time off and holidays
- Professional development support
- Home office stipend
- A flexible, fully remote work environment
- A collaborative, entrepreneurial team that values autonomy, excellent work, and sustainable careers
About GQS New Energy Strategies
GQS New Energy Strategies is a boutique consulting firm that helps clients succeed in the rapidly changing electricity sector. We advise companies and organizations on wholesale market design, transmission and interconnection policy, grid reliability, large-load integration, and federal and regional regulatory and policy strategy. Our team combines deep government, industry, RTO, and stakeholder-process experience with practical analysis, strategic judgment, and hands-on support for execution. Our role is not simply to describe policy developments or take positions on them; it is to help clients determine what those developments mean for their goals and what they should do next.
Since forming in 2023, GQS New Energy Strategies has helped a variety of clients including clean energy project developers, energy storage providers, infrastructure investors, large loads, and trade associations representing energy developers and end consumers achieve their regulatory and policy goals.
How to Apply
Please fill out the form below and upload your resume and cover letter. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.