Gas Supply Manager (Natural Gas)

Location: Houston, United States, with regular travel to Nscale sites including the Monarch campus in West Virginia and to counterparties.

Salary: $100,000–$160,000 USD base salary, with potential bonus, equity, and/or commission programs.

Company

Nscale provides GPU cloud infrastructure for AI start-ups and enterprise customers, including the power and energy infrastructure supporting AI data centre campuses.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain natural gas management and trading strategies for power assets, including supply portfolios, contract structures, firm transportation, interconnects, balancing services, and hedging.
• Set portfolio risk frameworks, model delivered gas costs, identify cost-reduction opportunities, and support fuel budgets and hedging execution.
• Negotiate and manage gas supply agreements with producers, marketers, and interstate pipelines across the Appalachian Basin and other relevant producing regions.
• Select and oversee schedulers, agents, consultants, and pipeline counterparties covering nominations, balancing, settlement, transportation, capacity releases, tariffs, and operational matters.
• Build and lead the gas supply team, establish procedures and ETRM tools, and prepare supply and transportation arrangements for first gas and plant commissioning.
• Report supply position, risks, and cost performance while maintaining a 24/7 supplier escalation path for disruptions.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in natural gas supply, trading, origination, or fuel management for a utility, generator, marketer, or producer, including responsibility for a supply portfolio.
• Experience negotiating gas supply and transportation agreements directly with producers, marketers, and interstate pipelines.
• Experience managing third-party schedulers, agents, or consultants, or leading a scheduling and settlement function.
• Strong knowledge of gas supply contract structures, including NAESB base contracts and special provisions, pipeline tariffs, firm and interruptible transportation, interconnect agreements, and imbalance and penalty provisions.
• Understanding of scheduling and nomination mechanics, balancing, and settlement sufficient to set service levels and audit suppliers.
• Familiarity with hedging instruments, basis and price risk, and credit terms used in gas supply.
• Strong knowledge of the Appalachian Basin and interstate pipelines serving West Virginia and Ohio is preferred; familiarity with other North American gas markets is a plus.
• Commercial negotiation, relationship-building, organizational, analytical, portfolio, budget, reporting, and supplier-management skills.
• Based in Houston and able to travel regularly to Nscale sites and counterparties.

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics, engineering, or a related field; MBA.
• Experience supplying gas to power plants or large, variable industrial loads across multiple sites or regions.
• Experience building a gas supply function for a new facility or portfolio.
• Experience with storage, park-and-loan, and asset management agreements.
• Experience with ETRM systems and gas supply analytics.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, supportive, and innovative environment focused on ownership, accountability, openness, and transparency.
• Highly competitive base salary and equity package with reviews every 12 months.
• Progression plan with opportunities to lead, challenge existing approaches, and take ownership of impact.
• Potential bonus, equity, and/or commission programs.
• Medical, dental, vision, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement plan participation may be available.