Lead Gas Trader
location_on5407, Clay Avenue, Brentwood, Austin, Travis County, Texas, 78756, United States
Job Description
Location & Team Gatherings
Intersect has been a fully flexible workplace since its founding in 2016. We’ve been very intentional about the way we do things. We are not work‑from‑home, hybrid, or in‑office - we are any and all of those options! Deepening social connections and offering shared experiences is a cornerstone of the way we work. We connect as a team at our Team Week experiences four times a year and at our recently established Hub locations - SF Bay Area, NYC Metro Area, NY; Denver, CO; Austin, TX; Calgary, AB; and Toronto, ON.
We are currently looking for candidates located within 60 miles of any of the listed hubs to foster more in‑person connections while maintaining our flexible remote culture.
About This Role
Intersect is building the integrated energy infrastructure that the future demands, and this role sits at the center of that mission. As we scale our fleet of islanded gas‑fired generation assets, real‑time fuel management, balancing precision, and hedging discipline will become mission‑critical.
Reporting to the Head of Origination, Trading, and Market Analytics, the Lead Gas Trader will build and lead Intersect’s gas trading, physical scheduling, and balancing platform from the ground up. This role will sit at the center of our commercial operations, ensuring reliable fuel supply, managing daily burn volatility, and constructing a robust financial and physical risk management framework. This role will develop and execute a gas hedging and management strategy while coordinating with origination on long‑term and short‑term gas purchases and sales.
Unlike traditional utility environments, our assets operate in dynamic, high‑volatility settings with significant variability in expected daily burns. Managing swing risk, pipeline constraints, imbalance exposure, and basis volatility will be essential to protecting margin and ensuring operational reliability. This is a builder role: strategy, infrastructure, team, execution.
Team Overview
The Origination & Trading team is responsible for Intersect’s revenue generation via long‑term contracting done on the Origination side and market optimization & hedging done on the Trading side of the team. As our gas exposure grows alongside our islanded generation fleet, we are launching a dedicated in‑house gas trading and scheduling function.
The Lead Gas Trader will design and execute this capability, managing both financial gas hedging strategy and physical scheduling, balancing, and transport optimization. This function will directly support asset operations, power trading, and origination, ensuring fuel reliability while managing extreme price volatility and structural basis risk.
Equal Opportunity
Intersect maintains a work environment free from discrimination, one where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling Intersect’s commitment to equal employment opportunity. Intersect does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by and consistent with applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. We adhere to these principles in all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, benefits, social and recreational programs, and discipline.
Work location
Work model: Hybrid
5407, Clay Avenue, Brentwood, Austin, Travis County, Texas, 78756, United States
Austin, Texas
Key Responsibilities
- check_circleBuild and lead the gas trading, scheduling, and balancing team
- check_circleDesign scalable processes for gas management
- check_circleOversee daily gas scheduling across pipelines
- check_circleManage imbalance exposure and penalty risk
- check_circleOptimize transport and storage arrangements
- check_circleExecute comprehensive gas hedging strategy
- check_circleActively manage NYMEX futures and options
- check_circlePartner with Power Trading to optimize spark spreads
- check_circleCollaborate with Market Analytics
- check_circleSupport origination on long-term fuel supply agreements
Requirements
- verified12+ years of natural gas trading and scheduling experience
- verifiednatural gas trading and scheduling experience
- verifiedEducation in mathematics, engineering, science, economics, or business is preferred