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Overview

Emerald AI sits at the intersection of AI and energy, enabling AI data centers to scale without overwhelming the grid. Our Emerald Conductor software platform makes data centers flexible and responsive, unlocking massive AI growth while strengthening the grid and supporting renewable energy.

About the Role

We are seeking a Head of Policy & Regulatory Affairs to drive Emerald AIs engagement with policymakers, regulators, and industry stakeholders shaping the future of data center energy use. This hybrid role combines policy advocacy, strategic planning, and customer engagement. You will work closely with leadership, business development, and engineering teams to ensure that Emerald AI offers customers exactly what regulations are asking of them and where/when they need it.

Key Responsibilities

• Build Stakeholder Relationships
  • Utility Partners: Establish and strengthen ties with policymakers, ISOs/RTOs, and utilities to codevelop flexible interconnection processes and guide commercial engagements through the processes to realize the Emerald value proposition of accelerated interconnection.
  • Data Center Developer Customers: Pitch and sell our product suite and guide customers through flexibilityenabled accelerated interconnection processes. Engage customers to understand emerging opportunities for Emerald to add value behindthemeter and communicate those opportunities to the engineering team.
• Shape Regulatory Strategy: Lead the development of Emerald AIs policy and regulatory agenda, identifying priority markets, upcoming proceedings, and key levers where policy can accelerate adoption of our solutions.
• Monitor & Influence Policy: Track emerging regulations on large load interconnection procedures and tariffs as well as wholesale/retail demand response programs. Engage in proceedings, public comments, and working groups to shape outcomes favorable to our mission. Anticipate requirements and market trends to guide company strategy.
• Internal Collaboration: Work with product and engineering to ensure our platform evolves to meet or exceed regulatory requirements and leverages policydriven opportunities (e.g., subsidies, interconnection reforms, demand flexibility mandates).
• Thought Leadership & Representation: Represent Emerald AI in policy forums, industry associations, and at conferences. Develop white papers, testimony, and position statements that articulate the value of our technology to policymakers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in the energy, technology, or data center sectors
• 10+ years total experience, ideally including exposure to earlystage companies or highgrowth technology environments
• Proven track record engaging with regulators, legislators, and grid operators, including through formal regulatory proceedings
• Deep knowledge of energy markets, grid operations and interconnection processes, and demandside flexibility programs is essential
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to connect the dots between evolving utility landscapes, regulatory environments, and customer needs
• Excellent communication skills, effective at representing company positions at the executive and regulatory levels
• Comfort with straddling both the energy and technology worlds and capable of translating dynamics in one world into implications for the other
• A proactive, fastmoving selfstarter who can spot opportunities in the policy landscape and act decisively to capture them.

What we offer

• Make an impact. Solve the AI power bottleneck and shape how data centers scale sustainably.
• Join a worldclass team of AI, cloud, software, and energy experts in a collaborative, lowego environment.
• Build from 01. Influence strategy, GTM, org design, and customer/investor engagement from day one.
• Competitive pay + equity. Stock options let you share in the value you help create.
• Comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) matching.
• Flexible location. Work from D.C., Boston, or the Bay Area, with 1 WFH day/week.
• Backed by top investors, including Radical Ventures and NVIDIA.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, and any other protected ground of discrimination under applicable human rights legislation.
Emerald AI strives to respect the dignity and independence of people with disabilities and is committed to giving them the same opportunity to succeed as all other employees.
Inclusiveness is core to our culture at Emerald AI, and we strive to ensure you get the most from your interview experience. Emerald AI makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to the Talent team.

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