Senior Energy Trading Manager (BESS)

Location: Remote, United States; willingness to travel up to 20%; participation in an on-call rotation may require occasional evening or weekend coverage.

Company

hirify.global is a global energy storage and power infrastructure company developing and operating resilient, dispatchable energy assets, including battery and clean hydrogen solutions and AI/ML-powered energy management and trading software.

What you will do

• Lead day-ahead and real-time energy and ancillary service offers for a utility-scale BESS fleet in ERCOT and CAISO, with potential expansion into additional ISO/RTO markets.
• Develop trading strategies, allocate storage capacity across day-ahead energy, real-time energy, and ancillary service markets, and monitor live trades and dispatches.
• Establish trading performance frameworks and success metrics, monitor risk and daily results, and communicate findings to internal stakeholders and external partners.
• Develop processes to identify transmission constraints and incorporate them into optimization and bidding strategies.
• Collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, and asset operations teams to improve programmatic optimization, internal software, forecasting tools, and product roadmaps.
• Evaluate hedging opportunities, regulatory developments, and market design changes across relevant ISOs, including ERCOT RTC+B and CAISO reforms.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering, economics, finance, or another quantitative field.
• 5+ years of power trading experience at a utility, IPP, trading firm, or energy trading software company.
• Deep expertise in ERCOT, including operating protocols and rules, with working knowledge across multiple markets.
• Deep understanding of transmission topology, ISO LMP and ancillary service pricing, and power flow constraints.
• Understanding of risk management and the ability to maximize revenue subject to risk constraints.
• Ability to participate in an on-call rotation supporting live market operations and time-sensitive trading decisions, including occasional evening or weekend coverage.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex market dynamics to technical teams, commercial stakeholders, and executive audiences.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills; strong Excel skills are required.
• Self-directed, highly organized, and able to manage multiple priorities independently while maintaining analytical rigor in a fast-paced operational environment.
• Willingness to travel up to 20% and comfort working in a fast-paced, rapid-growth environment.
• Successful completion of a pre-employment background check.

Nice to have

• Experience trading energy storage assets.
• Working experience in Python.
• Experience with financial products such as virtuals, CRR/FTR, or forward contracts.
• Passion for sustainability, the company mission, and its vision.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work arrangement within the United States.
• Disciplined entrepreneurial culture focused on fast, nimble execution.
• Work with cross-functional teams across market analytics, optimization, product, engineering, and asset operations.
• Commitment to mutual respect, equal employment opportunity, inclusion, and diversity of thought.
• hirify.global participates in E-Verify.