Battery Asset Manager

Houston, TX 77002 | Fully Remote

Posted: 06/24/2025 Industry: Energy-Front Office Job Number: 1848

Job Description

An early-stage EMA company that provides third-party dispatch and optimization trading services for battery energy storage system (BESS) assets is searching for a BESS Asset Manager (Battery Asset Trader). The Asset Manager will maximize risk-adjusted revenue for BESS assets in day-ahead and real-time markets.  The company’s extensive experience in physical and financial power trading, combined with bespoke algorithms, drives optimal bidding decisions.

 BESS Asset Manager responsibilities:
  • Schedule, manage, and maximize the value of the BESS assets in the wholesale power markets.
  • Communicate daily with asset owners to discuss market conditions, trading risks, and opportunities for revenue optimization.
  • Analyze key market metrics including short-term market prices, supply & demand, and transmission constraints in CaISO and ERCOT.
  • Understand the price formation of all potential revenue streams and tariff rules, and apply this knowledge to optimize battery storage assets.
  • Optimize the asset using the available algorithms and other market data.
  • Override algorithm recommendations when deemed necessary and make trading decisions for the asset (at times).
  • Work closely with algorithmic/quantitative developers to incorporate and test key assumptions (market design, regulatory rules and compliance attributes, generation bidding behaviors, and risk limits/controls) into the algorithmic dispatch software.
  • Monitor all relevant federal, ISO, and state regulatory issues in CaISO and ERCOT.
  • Analyze key financial performance indicators (KPIs) of the project and report to key stakeholders and asset owners.
  • Interact with internal accounting and risk groups to set up BESS asset operations and systems (ETRM).
The position is entirely remote (WFH). The position requires on-call /off-hour availability.

Educational and professional requirements include a bachelor’s degree in Finance or a related field; minimum 1+ years of prior experience in short-term power market analytics, power scheduling, risk, real-time power trading, day-ahead power trading, cash power trading, and/or asset trading of thermal or renewable generation; market experience in any ISO/power market (experience in CAISO and/or ERCOT is a plus); strong understanding of electricity market design; high proficiency in Excel; basic skills in Python); and excellent communication skills. BESS experience is desired but not required.
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