tl;dr Manage Permit Power’s policy development on permitting, inspection, and HOA, across multiple states to dramatically accelerate the installation of home solar and batteries.
What we do at Permit Power
Permit Power is on a mission to make it cheap and easy for American families to power their lives by cutting the red tape that makes home solar and batteries so expensive. We are a small but ambitious team that advances common-sense policy fixes in states around the country to modernize processes like permitting and utility interconnection to allow tens of millions more American families to produce their own affordable electricity. If we’re successful at lowering the price of home solar and batteries for American families, almost 20m more families will be able to install almost 200GW of power on their roofs and save $1.2trn over the life of their systems.
What you’ll be doing:
Develop Permit Power's permitting policy agenda: Formulate and execute a comprehensive policy plan to simplify and streamline permitting and inspection requirements for home solar and batteries. This agenda should transform the approval process at building departments, fire departments, other authorities having jurisdiction (AHJs), and homeowners associations so it is no longer slow, cumbersome, costly, and a detriment to solar deployment.
Oversee the bill-to-law cycle: Conduct preliminary research for, draft, and vet permitting bill language. Produce advocacy materials, such as talking points, fact sheets, graphics, and reports. In coordination with Permit Power’s advocacy team and outside lobbyists, lobby legislators, their staff, and executive branch officials. Negotiate with opposition.
Build and drive coalitions: Manage relationships with partners such as environmental groups, the solar industry, think tanks, and others to broaden support for a permitting reform agenda and to collaboratively refine and update our state policy priorities.
Serve as the subject matter expert: Act as the organization's authority on permitting rules, regulations, and cutting-edge policies like automated permitting and remote inspections.
Lead regulatory policy development: Develop the organization’s policy positions on regulatory proceedings, such as creating a statewide automated permitting platform and adding remote inspections into the state building code. Prepare written comments, testify, and interface with partners.
Manage external research and consultants: Scope external policy research and identify, onboard, and direct consultants to secure high-quality products supporting our permitting policy agenda.
What we’re looking for:
5+ years of experience in policy development, legislative advocacy, and/or regulatory affairs related to behind the meter solar/storage, utility-scale renewables, or electrification technologies required. Experience in permitting policy preferred.
Track record of successfully developing and executing policy agendas that lead to tangible outcomes, particularly within the state legislative or regulatory arenas.
Ability to translate complex technical and engineering concepts into clear, accessible language and materials for policymakers, advocates, and the public.
Experience testifying before, interfacing with, and developing materials for policymakers.
Demonstrated ability to build coalitions and partner with stakeholders to achieve policy goals.
Familiarity with permitting solutions (e.g. automated permitting, virtual inspections, ban on aesthetic review) and solar building safety codes and standards (e.g. Section R330 of 2024 IRC, Article 690 of NEC, UL 1741, UL 9540) or ability to quickly gain this knowledge.
Relationships with clean energy policy groups, technical consultants, research firms, and think tanks in the distributed generation space.
What will make you a good fit:
Entrepreneurial and self-directed. We are a small team, and you will need to be able to figure out what your goals are and how to achieve them within the set timeframe.
Outcomes-oriented. We measure ourselves by how much we can drive down the cost and timelines for installing solar and batteries, and how much more solar and batteries are installed as a result of our work. We are looking for someone who will find fulfillment in achieving those concrete goals.
Collaborative and low-ego. We’re a start-up organization and will make many mistakes. We will only succeed if we work together, acknowledge our mistakes, and learn from them.
Flexible and open-minded. Comfortable collaborating and finding common ground with stakeholders across the ideological spectrum.
Organized and detail-oriented. No one will be looking over your shoulder, and you will need to take true ownership over the quality of your work, and stay on top of your own administrative work.
Occasional travel. Willing to travel for quarterly team meetings and periodic partner meetings, hearings, and conferences.
The salary & benefits you can expect:
The salary range for this position is $133,000-155,000. This is a full-time, exempt position. Permit Power offers a generous and comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, dental insurance, vision care, pre‑tax commuter benefits, FSA, 401k with 5% percent contribution matching (limits apply).
Permit Power offers 6 months of paid maternity or paternity leave to bond with a newborn or adopted child within the first year of birth or adoption.
We are currently a team of six, working remotely in San Francisco, Santa Cruz, New York City, Denver, and Pittsburgh. We are open to candidates anywhere in the U.S.
How to apply for this amazing job:
Please submit a cover letter and resume below. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
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