Director of Market Analytics (Energy Analytics)

Location: Santa Clara, CA or remote within the United States. Remote employees must travel to the Santa Clara headquarters twice per quarter based on business or team needs, and must work in person at headquarters for the first two weeks of onboarding. Applicants must meet the definition of a U.S. person under applicable export control laws.

Salary: $180,000–$230,000 per year, plus equity and bonuses.

Company

hirify.global develops advanced fission power plants, nuclear fuel recycling technologies, and domestic supply chains for critical radioisotopes.

What you will do

• Own long-term power market forecasting across capacity prices, energy prices, ancillary services, and carbon compliance costs.
• Build market models covering AI data center load growth, electrification, generation retirements, new-build pipelines, and transmission constraints.
• Produce market assessments for site selection, development prioritization, go/no-go decisions, and project finance models.
• Support PPA negotiations through pricing benchmarks, contract structure analysis, counterparty credit analysis, and policy intelligence.
• Compare BOT arrangements, physical and virtual PPAs, contracts for difference, capacity market participation, merchant strategies, and hybrid offtake structures.
• Build and manage a market analytics team and establish data infrastructure, vendor relationships, pipelines, and reporting tools.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in power market analysis, energy economics, or a related field.
• Deep expertise in U.S. wholesale electricity markets, including ISO/RTO structures, capacity and energy pricing, ancillary services, and transmission.
• Experience building long-term power market forecasts used for investment decisions, project finance, or M&A.
• Strong financial modeling skills and experience building revenue models for generation assets.
• Ability to communicate technical content and results clearly in writing and verbally.
• Must meet applicable U.S. person requirements for potential access to export-controlled information.

Nice to have

• Experience with nuclear, gas, hydro, storage, or other baseload and dispatchable generation assets.
• Familiarity with AI data center power demand, hyperscaler offtake structures, and corporate PPAs.
• Experience with S&P Global Platts, Wood Mackenzie, LSEG Eikon, or Aurora Energy Research.

Culture & Benefits

• Startup environment with fast-paced, iterative work and limited hierarchy.
• Collaboration, ownership, humility, and creative problem-solving are core values.
• Flexible time off, flexible work hours, wellness credits, and competitive pay.
• Equity, bonuses, 401(k), health insurance with employer contribution, HSA, and FSA.
• Remote work includes regular headquarters travel and in-person onboarding in Santa Clara.

Hiring process

• Employment may be contingent on successful completion of a drug screening.
• Employees may be subject to drug testing in accordance with company policy and applicable laws.