Lead Energy Market Analyst - SPP & WECC

The role

The Lead Energy Market Analyst works with prospective and existing clients to increase sales and deliver technical pre-sales work across the SPP and WECC footprints. This senior individual-contributor role identifies customer use cases, performs modeling, and serves as a subject matter expert on Western market design.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain energy market models for SPP and WECC regions using PLEXOS
• Translate customer business problems into modeling workflows and commercial value stories
• Design and deliver tailored demonstrations, workshops, and proofs of concept
• Own technical content of proposals, RFP, RFI responses, and statements of work
• Identify adjacent use cases to deepen existing accounts
• Build, configure and validate PLEXOS and Aurora models
• Execute production cost, capacity expansion, resource adequacy, and other studies
• Maintain regional reference models and input libraries
• Identify and prioritize SPP and WECC use cases to co-develop go-to-market plans
• Serve as a public voice through white papers, webinars, and industry presentations

Required qualifications

• 7+ years in wholesale electricity markets, power system planning, energy economics or energy consulting
• At least 3 years focused on SPP, the Western Interconnection or both
• Hands-on experience building and running production cost, capacity expansion or resource adequacy models in PLEXOS or Aurora, or in comparable tools
• Working command of SPP and Western market design
• Proven customer-facing experience in pre-sales, consulting or client advisory
• Ability to turn complex quantitative results into a crisp commercial story
• Python or R
• SQL
• Advanced Excel
• Master's degree in electrical engineering, energy or environmental economics, applied mathematics, operations research, data science, public policy or a closely related field; equivalent professional

Nice to have

• Professional Engineer (PE) license
• CFA or Energy Risk Professional (ERP) designation
• PLEXOS or Aurora certification, or completion of Energy Exemplar's advanced training programs
• Active membership in IEEE PES, IAEE, USAEE or similar professional bodies

About the company

Energy Exemplar provides a software portfolio encompassing the modeling and simulation platform PLEXOS, Aurora, and Adapt2. The company's mission is empowering transformative energy decisions.