Senior Energy Trading Manager

Our Energetic Team:

Energy Vault Solution, a division within Energy Vault, is dedicated to delivering customer-focused energy storage products that merge Battery and Clean Hydrogen technologies. The Energy Vault Solution team also develops and manages our AI/ML powered software applications that include EMS, Lifecycle Management, and Energy Trading Platforms.

Your Mission:

• Establish frameworks and success metrics used to evaluate trading performance; monitor daily performance and risk metrics and communicate results transparently to internal stakeholders and external partners.
• Participate in physical dispatch and optimization of BESS assets, executing energy and ancillary service offers in the day-ahead and real-time markets using Energy Vault’s internal software and forecasting tools.
• Oversee day-ahead trading strategy, developing views of market fundamentals to guide the daily allocation of BESS capacity between the Day-Ahead Energy, Real-Time Energy, and Ancillary Service markets.
• Act as the team’s subject-matter expert on wholesale electricity trading, market fundamentals, bidding strategy, and ISO protocols and operations.
• Work closely with data scientists, software engineers, and asset operations teams to evaluate and refine Energy Vault’s programmatic optimization and software development; translate analytical findings into product requirements and roadmap priorities.
• Develop processes and frameworks to identify likely transmission constraints in day-ahead and real-time markets and incorporate those expectations to adjust optimization strategy appropriately.
• Contribute to Energy Vault’s understanding of appropriate hedging activity to ensure adequate storage revenue over the long term of offtake agreements; potentially execute in futures and options markets for energy price volatility as opportunities arise.
• Monitor regulatory developments and market design changes across relevant ISOs (e.g., ERCOT RTC+B, CAISO reforms); evaluate their commercial and operational implications and communicate proactively with internal teams.

Your Background:

• 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 is preferred.
• 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 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, with the ability to interpret complex datasets and translate findings into actionable recommendations; working experience in Python preferred, strong Excel skills required.
• Experience across one or more financial products (virtuals, CRR/FTR, forward contracts) is a plus.
• Self-directed, highly organized, and able to manage multiple priorities independently while maintaining analytical rigor in a fast-paced operational environment; embraces a disciplined entrepreneurial culture.
• Willingness to travel, up to 20%.
• Comfortable thriving in fast-paced, rapid growth environments.
• A passion for sustainability, our mission, and our vision is a bonus!
• Must successfully pass a pre-employment background check.
• Energy Vault participates in E-Verify.