Senior Energy Trading Manager (Energy Storage)

Location: United States; remote workplace. On-call participation is required, including occasional evening or weekend coverage. Travel may be required up to 20%.

Company

hirify.global develops, owns, operates, and enables resilient energy storage and power infrastructure, 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.
• Develop trading strategies, performance frameworks, success metrics, and daily risk reporting.
• Allocate storage capacity across day-ahead energy, real-time energy, and ancillary service markets.
• Analyze market fundamentals, transmission constraints, ISO protocols, pricing, and regulatory changes.
• Collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, product teams, and asset operations to improve optimization systems and define product requirements.
• Evaluate hedging strategies and support potential trading in futures, options, virtuals, CRR/FTRs, and forward contracts.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering, economics, finance, or another quantitative field.
• At least 5 years of power trading experience at a utility, IPP, trading firm, or energy trading software company.
• Deep expertise in ERCOT protocols and rules, with working knowledge of multiple power markets.
• Strong understanding of transmission topology, ISO LMP and ancillary service pricing, power flow constraints, and risk management.
• Strong quantitative, analytical, written, and verbal communication skills; Python experience is preferred and advanced Excel skills are required.
• Must be able to participate in an on-call rotation for live market operations and pass a pre-employment background check.

Nice to have

• Experience trading energy storage assets.
• Experience with virtuals, CRR/FTRs, forward contracts, futures, or options.
• Passion for sustainability and energy transition.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a fast-paced, rapid-growth environment with a disciplined entrepreneurial culture.
• Collaborate across analytics, engineering, product, commercial, and operations functions.
• Support an inclusive workplace based on mutual respect and equal employment opportunity.
• hirify.global participates in E-Verify.