About Emerald

We’re at a pivotal moment in AI and energy: compute demand is surging, but power constraints threaten to stall innovation. Emerald AI operates at the nexus of AI and energy, pioneering solutions that let AI factories scale without overwhelming the grid. By making data centers flexible through the Emerald Conductor software platform, we can unlock immense AI growth with limited capital costs, all while stabilizing the grid & enabling more renewables.

Our team of AI, cloud, software, and energy experts is on a mission to unlock AI’s potential sustainably, backed by premier investors and industry leaders like Radical Ventures and NVIDIA. Read more about our team, story, and backers at https://www.emeraldai.co/.

About the Role

We are seeking a Policy & Regulatory Affairs Manager to lead Emerald AI’s engagement with policymakers, regulators, and industry stakeholders shaping the future of data center energy use. You will be responsible for crafting and executing our regulatory strategy, identifying emerging policies that create opportunities or risks, and ensuring our technology is positioned as a solution to urgent grid and energy challenges. This is a hybrid role that combines policy advocacy (building relationships with regulators, legislators, and grid operators) with strategic planning, aligning regulatory insights with our commercial and product roadmaps. 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

• Shape Regulatory Strategy: Lead the development of Emerald AI’s 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.

• Build Stakeholder Relationships: Establish and strengthen ties with policymakers, public utility commissions, ISOs/RTOs, utilities, and industry coalitions, creating opportunities for our leadership team to engage at senior levels. Position Emerald AI as a thought leader and partner in enabling grid-responsive computing.

• Support GTM & Partnerships: Collaborate with BD and strategy teams to identify markets where regulatory incentives, demand response programs, or mandates create strong entry points for our technology.

• Internal Collaboration: Work with product and engineering to ensure our platform evolves to meet or exceed regulatory requirements and leverages policy-driven 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 policy, regulatory affairs, or government relations in the energy, technology, or data center sectors.

• 10+ years total experience, ideally including exposure to early-stage companies or high-growth 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 demand-side flexibility programs is essential.

• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to synthesize complex regulatory dynamics into clear recommendations and actions.

• 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, fast-moving self-starter who can spot opportunities in the policy landscape and act decisively to capture them.

What We Offer

• A chance to join a team of industry leaders and experts working at the nexus of two pivotal industries in a collaborative and collegial environment.

• Building from zero to one: help the team build from the ground up. In addition to this role, you have the opportunity to contribute to strategy development, GTM planning, org design, and customer and investor interfacing.

• Comprehensive benefits package including insurance for medical, dental, and vision, in addition to 401(k) matching.

• Location flexibility between our three hubs in D.C., Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area with 1 WFH day/week.