Base Power
Power Trader
Austin, TX. Posted a month ago
The role
The Power Trader will trade around the retail load book and battery fleet. The role involves building short-term strategies for ERCOT and expanding into PJM and other ISOs.
What you will do
- Trade short-term power products to capture incremental margin
- Strengthen existing hedge strategy with a portfolio-construction-based approach
- Contribute to in-house long-term price forecasts
- Articulate market views, trading rationale, and P&L drivers to leadership
- Evaluate capacity markets and other structured products
Required qualifications
- At least 3-5 years of experience trading power products on a bank, utility, or merchant trading desk
- Direct exposure to forward curves, hedge instruments, and short-term markets
- Demonstrated experience in portfolio construction
- Strong fundamentals-based market view
- Deep experience in any ISO
- Comfort operating as an individual contributor in a small, fast-moving team
Nice to have
- Hands-on proficiency building models yourself (Python)
About the company
Base is a next-generation power company rebuilding the electricity foundation by deploying a network of distributed batteries. The Trading & Risk team ensures the grid-support performance and profitability of the battery fleet.