Senior Energy Trading Manager
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Senior Energy Trading Manager optimizing Energy Vault’s utility-scale battery storage fleet in ERCOT and CAISO. Developing bids, managing risk, and improving automated trading performance.
Responsibilities:
- Lead day-ahead and real-time energy and ancillary service offers for Energy Vault’s utility-scale BESS fleet in ERCOT and CAISO
- Own trading strategy and execute offers using internal software and forecasting tools
- Follow QSE and Scheduling Coordinator operating procedures and intervene with manual trading when needed
- Establish trading-performance frameworks and success metrics; monitor performance and risk metrics and communicate results
- Participate in physical dispatch and optimization of BESS assets
- Oversee day-ahead trading strategy and allocate storage capacity across day-ahead energy, real-time energy, and ancillary service markets
- Serve as subject-matter expert on wholesale electricity trading, market fundamentals, bidding strategy, and ISO protocols
- Collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, and asset operations teams to refine optimization software and translate findings into product requirements
- Develop processes to identify transmission constraints and adjust optimization strategies
- Contribute to hedging strategy and potentially execute energy futures and options trades
- Monitor ISO regulatory and market-design developments and communicate commercial and operational implications
- Report to the Head of Optimization & Trading
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
- Experience in energy storage asset trading preferred
- Deep expertise in ERCOT 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 ability to maximize revenue subject to risk constraints
- Ability to participate in an on-call rotation, including occasional evening or weekend coverage
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills; ability to interpret complex datasets and produce actionable recommendations
- Working experience in Python preferred
- Strong Excel skills required
- Experience with financial products such as virtuals, CRR/FTR, or forward contracts is a plus
- Self-directed, highly organized, and able to manage multiple priorities independently
- Willingness to travel up to 20%
- Comfortable in fast-paced, rapid-growth environments
- Must successfully pass a pre-employment background check
- Energy Vault participates in E-Verify














