Sr. Financial Power Trader

ExxonMobil•Spring, TX

2d•Onsite

About The Position

ExxonMobil's Americas Gas & Power Trading group is looking for a Sr. Financial Power Trader to join their platform. This role involves running a point-of-view financial power book across major North American ISOs, leveraging a material gas and power position and cross-commodity intelligence. The trader will express views through power curves, spreads, congestion, and heat rates, grounded in fundamental insight and the gas-power linkage. This is a P&L owning seat with the mandate to scale across the broader business.

Requirements

10+ years of financial power trading experience at an energy marketer, bank, merchant, hedge fund, or producer with direct P&L and a demonstrable track record.
Proven performance across a mix of strategies with evidence of consistent risk-adjusted returns.
Deep fundamental grounding in North American power markets: generation stack dynamics, renewable penetration, load and weather drivers, transmission constraints, regulatory developments and ISO market design.
Expert experience creating, interpreting and managing a forward fixed price, heat rate and basis curve.
Comfortable working with dedicated Quant teams building python-based tools for fundamentals, pricing, signal generation, and risk.
Ability to interpret pricing model results and understand input assumptions – proactive monitor and provide feedback for continuous model improvement.
Expert understanding of the gas-power linkage and the ability to integrate gas fundamentals into a power trading view.
Disciplined risk management instincts and a track record of performing across different market regimes.
Advanced knowledge of Risk Management/Assessment measures – V@R, draw down, position limits, NOP, MtM and cash variance.
Senior mindset: able to operate independently, mentor junior talent, and contribute to the strategic direction of the book.
Experience explaining and delivering complex topics in simple and understandable terms.
Bachelor’s degree required.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degrees in a quantitative energy-focused field a plus.

Responsibilities

Run a point of view driven financial power book across ERCOT, MISO (specifically South Region), and PJM as appropriate, expressing views through flat price, spreads, heat rates, congestion.
Develop trading strategies that capture the gas-power linkages, leveraging Exxon’s structural equity positions and the platform’s broader fundamental view.
Partner with our Analytics team to build and maintain quantitative tools and fundamental models – generation stack analysis, renewable penetration, load forecast, congestion analytics – to support disciplined decision making.
Manage risk actively across vol, spread, basis and directional exposures, with systematic sizing and tail-risk protection.
Collaborate with gas traders, market analytics, origination, and risk teams to ensure the power book reflects the full information set.
Contribute to the build-out of the power trading capability as the Americas Gas & Power platform continues to scale.