Base Power
Compliance Director
Austin, TX. Posted 18 days ago
The role
The Compliance Director will lead compliance across the company and own the program that keeps Base in good standing with regulators. This person will build a scalable compliance program, manage regulatory filings, and oversee energy trading compliance.
What you will do
- Build and own the compliance program including risk assessment, policies, training, monitoring, and testing.
- Set priorities and prepare filings.
- Serve as the accountable compliance contact for regulators including PUCT, ICC, FERC, and ISOs/RTOs.
- Keep records for audits including filing calendars and audit trails.
- Track rulemakings and rule changes across active jurisdictions.
- Brief Leadership on rule changes and required operational changes.
- Build compliance into daily operations including marketing review, contract authorization, and complaint handling.
- Ensure compliance requirements carry through to installer partners, vendors, and utility partners.
- Report on program health to Leadership.
- Oversee energy trading compliance including trader training, market manipulation prevention, and reporting obligations.
Required qualifications
- 5+ years of compliance experience at a utility, retail electric provider, alternative supplier, ISO/RTO, state commission, or another heavily regulated industry
- Experience building or running a compliance program, from risk assessment through controls, testing, and training
- Direct, fact-based written communication
- Project management instinct
- Comfort in a fast-moving, unstructured environment
Nice to have
- direct energy experience
- Working knowledge of retail electric provider rules, the Texas Administrative Code, or similar state frameworks
- Comfort reading tariffs and administrative code and translating them into operational requirements
About the company
Base is America’s next-generation power company rebuilding the foundation of modern civilization by deploying a vast network of distributed batteries. They are engineers, operators, and creatives solving complex, interdisciplinary challenges.