The opportunity
SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.
What you'll do
Establish and lead a new, lean natural gas trading team responsible for: originating, structuring, and executing physical and financial natural gas transactions to support SpaceX’s growing power and fuel needs.
Develop and execute directional, spread, physical, and financial trading: strategies for natural gas to reduce supply risk, ensure on-time delivery, and align with company strategy.
Identify pricing inefficiencies, market distortions, and opportunities across: tenors, hubs, pipelines, storage, and products; generate and manage profit and loss statement (P&L).
Manage trading positions in response to fundamental, technical,: weather-driven, fuel/emissions, regulatory, and operational signals.
Maintain strong discipline in position development, risk management, and trade execution.
Act as a market intelligence provider on natural gas categories, pipelines,: storage, power purchase agreements, cryogenic commodities, and related markets.
What they're looking for
- Benchmark, track, and analyze performance metrics, P&L, sourcing/trading: trends, and results against budget/targets on a regular basis to demonstrate continuous improvement and progress against strategic objectives.
- Recruit, mentor, and scale a small high-performing team of traders and: analysts; set clear performance standards and foster a culture of ownership, speed and accountability. Manage the trading floor transactions to ensure operational requirements and financial goals are met.
- Develop and maintain key internal stakeholder relationships (engineering,: finance, legal) and external relationships with counterparties, brokers, suppliers, and market participants to evaluate sourcing/trading models, optimize value, support deal flow, and ensure continuity of supply.
- Conduct comprehensive market, supplier, and counterparty analysis to: formulate strategic plans that identify new sources, optimize cost models, and proactively ensure supply continuity for upcoming production, launch, and new product introduction campaigns.
