Director/ Senior Director Power Markets

ICF•Reston, VA

7d•$174,701 - $296,992•Remote

About The Position

ICF is seeking a senior power markets executive to strengthen its market presence and expand its position in emerging digital infrastructure markets. The role is intended for an established industry professional with deep power market expertise, strong client relationships, and a record of turning market insight into business opportunities and strategic growth. Its initial focus is on elevating ICF’s senior market presence and building its digital infrastructure business, with the potential to assume broader strategic, organizational, and business responsibilities as the business develops. The role serves as a senior advisor and external market voice on power markets, including market fundamentals, resource adequacy, generation investment, transmission, load growth, and market design. It engages senior client decisionmakers and converts expertise into commercially relevant advice, thought leadership, and business development. The position also develops a growth strategy for ICF’s digital infrastructure segment, identifies priority client groups and differentiated offerings, builds relationships and a pipeline, and coordinates capabilities across ICF to serve clients. Over time, the role may expand to include broader responsibility for Power Markets business strategy, growth, talent development, organizational leadership, thought leadership, innovation, and market positioning. It could eventually include responsibility for larger portions of the Power Markets business or evolve into a broader business leadership role. The position is based in the United States, with Reston, Virginia preferred, or may be remote. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States. The role is not eligible for new H-1B visa sponsorship.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, operations research, economics, or a related field.
15+ years of experience in energy market forecasting and analysis.
Experience with electricity market and transmission reliability analysis tools, such as AURORA, PROMOD, PSLF, or PSS®E.
Experience in consulting, client management, business development, and thought leadership.
Experience overseeing technical staff for task delivery.
Must be authorized to work in the United States.

Responsibilities

Serve as a recognized senior expert and market voice on power markets, including market fundamentals, resource adequacy, generation investment, transmission, load growth, and market design.
Engage senior executives and decisionmakers, providing insights for investment, development, planning, and strategic decisions.
Translate market expertise into commercially relevant perspectives, thought leadership, and client conversations.
Represent ICF externally through conferences, executive briefings, publications, and direct client engagement.
Develop and own a vision and growth strategy for ICF’s emerging digital infrastructure business.
Define priority client types, needs, and differentiated offerings for data center developers, hyperscalers, infrastructure investors, and other digital infrastructure participants.
Connect ICF capabilities across power markets, transmission and interconnection, natural gas, engineering, and project development into integrated client solutions.
Build senior relationships with priority market participants and develop a focused pipeline of engagements.
Establish the organizational model and cross-ICF collaboration needed to serve digital infrastructure clients effectively.
Test offerings with clients, learn from early engagements, and scale the highest-value propositions.
As the business evolves, help shape and execute Power Markets strategy and growth; identify priority markets, client segments, offerings, investments, and capability-development opportunities.
Lead broader go-to-market, account-development, and business-development initiatives across the practice.
Help evolve organizational structures, operating models, and leadership approaches to support growth and delivery excellence.
Build leadership bench strength, develop future leaders, support succession planning, and recruit and integrate senior talent and specialized expertise.
Establish priorities for thought leadership, market insights, publications, and external market engagement.
Advance the use of technology, automation, data, and AI to enhance analytical capabilities, delivery models, and client solutions.
Contribute to the long-term positioning, differentiation, and market reputation of the Power Markets business.