Senior Strategist, North American Power and Gas (Energy Trading)

Location: New York or Houston, United States

Salary: $150,000–$250,000 annual base salary, plus an annual discretionary bonus

Company

hirify.global is a diversified trading firm using proprietary capital, technology, and quantitative expertise across global financial, commodity, energy, real estate, venture capital, and cryptoasset markets.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain quantitative models for US power load auctions, full-requirements transactions, and load-following products.
• Value complex load obligations by modeling demand, weather sensitivity, hourly shape, customer migration, basis, congestion, losses, capacity, ancillary services, and renewable obligations.
• Produce bid recommendations and scenario analyses for utility, municipal, cooperative, and commercial and industrial load opportunities.
• Design hedge strategies across power, natural gas, capacity, transmission, and environmental products.
• Build tools for portfolio valuation, position reporting, stress testing, performance attribution, forecasting, and optimization.
• Research structural changes in organized power markets and communicate model assumptions, limitations, and commercial implications to traders and senior leadership.

Requirements

• At least five years of relevant experience in US power trading, quantitative research, structuring, or portfolio management.
• Direct experience pricing or managing load auctions, full-requirements contracts, or load-following portfolios.
• Strong understanding of US wholesale power markets, including energy, congestion, capacity, ancillary services, transmission, and environmental products.
• Solid experience in Python or a similar programming language.
• Strong foundation in statistics, probability, optimization, time-series analysis, and Monte Carlo simulation.
• Bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in a quantitative discipline, plus strong commercial judgment and communication skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Autonomous, fast-paced trading environment focused on innovation and challenging consensus.
• Close collaboration with traders, developers, quantitative researchers, software engineers, and data specialists.
• Medical, pharmacy, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with discretionary employer match, disability insurance, life and AD&D insurance.
• Health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts.