Head of Product, PetroX

MaverickX • Austin, TX

8d • Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking an experienced, high-agency Head of Product to take ownership over our PetroX technology. PetroX is MaverickX’s portfolio of biochemistry engineered for the oilfield. It is non-hazmat, non-toxic, and spans applications across the entire oil value chain, from production through midstream and refining. The portfolio is in active commercial validation with leading operators. You will translate our chemistry platform into commercial products: defining what we sell, designing the experiments that validate it, building the economic case that wins it, and serving as the senior technical voice that closes operator conversations. You will report to our Director of Growth and partner closely with our Chief Scientist.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Petroleum Engineering, or related field; advanced degree welcome but not required
• 7+ years of oilfield chemistry experience, with hands-on formulation, application testing, and customer-facing technical work
• Depth across the core production chemistry stack, including iron control, scale, corrosion, paraffin, and flow assurance
• Direct experience in production enhancement chemistry, including stimulation, completions, or enhanced oil recovery (EOR)
• Recent hands-on protocol experience. You can walk through a protocol you personally wrote in the last 12 months (test matrix, conditions, success criteria, controls)
• Track record of taking products from concept to commercial deployment, including formulation, lab validation, customer trials, and optimization
• Comfortable as the technical voice with operators, service companies, and distributors, for both technical buyers and executive decision makers
• Strong commercial fluency on product economics, including dose, treatment cost, value delivered, and payback period
• Comfortable with Excel for technical and commercial analysis; Python or comparable tooling a plus
• Bias toward action and strong ownership; comfortable without a corporate playbook
• Strong desire to meaningfully contribute to American dynamism and the global resource supply chain

Nice To Haves

• Adjacent application experience in water treatment chemistry, demulsifiers and separation chemistry, or midstream chemistry
• Existing relationships with technical decision makers at major operators, service companies, or chemical distributors
• Experience with TSCA compliance, CAS registration, or chemical regulatory pathways
• Background in biochemistry, biotechnology, peptide chemistry, biocatalysis, or other emerging chemical technologies in the oilfield
• Technical proficiency with business and analytical tools (Excel, PowerPoint, HubSpot, Python, SQL, Tableau, Cursor)

Responsibilities

• Own the technical definition of every PetroX product. Partner with our chemists and biologists to formulate new products and extend existing ones.
• Design the validation programs and write the protocols our lab executes: test matrices, success criteria, methods, and controls.
• Own the full validation cycle (internal lab, third-party, customer) and turn outcomes into the proof points that convert pilots into wins.
• Maintain a current view of where every product sits, operating within our stage-gated framework with formal pass/fail decisions at each gate.
• Be MaverickX’s senior technical voice with operators, service companies, and distributors, and lead the technical relationship for major accounts.
• Own the technical inputs to unit economics (dosing, performance, treatment cost) and defend the assumptions in customer conversations.
• Build the data sheets, performance summaries, and proposals that win against entrenched competitors.

Benefits

• Premium health insurance: With medical, dental, and optical options, we offer some of the best coverage on the market
• Continuing education: We take employee development seriously and strive to unlock our team’s full potential through continuous learning initiatives

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior