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title: 'Director Market Risk at Hanwha Energy USA'
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# Director Market Risk at Hanwha Energy USA

- **Company:** Hanwha Energy USA
- **Location:** Houston, TX
- **Posted:** 2026-03-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-04
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/hanwhaenergyusa/jobs/4174223009

## Job description

## COMPANY OVERVIEW

Chariot Energy, is an affiliate company of Hanwha Energy USA and ultimately Hanwha Group, a FORTUNE Global 500 firm that is among the eight largest business enterprises in South Korea. Hanwha Energy USA designs, builds and manages solar power plant solutions. The company brings a decade of global leadership in solar PV to North America, combining best-of-world technology, processes, and partnerships to deliver utility-grade solar PV solutions customized for local energy markets. Hanwha Energy USA offers the full spectrum of PV solutions – from power plant development, design, construction, operations, and maintenance. With proven capabilities across the solar value chain, Hanwha Energy USA minimizes uncertainty and risk, and helps customers achieve a higher return on their investment in solar energy.

Hanwha Energy USA has recently embarked to enter the energy retail market in deregulated markets throughout North America. Chariot Energy is a retail energy provider based in Houston, Texas. We offer electricity to homes and businesses, and it is our goal to provide products and services our customers love and an unmatched experience that is missing in today’s retail energy market.

Hanwha Energy USA has set out to have Chariot Energy become one of the leading energy retail providers (by RCE count) within 5-years of Chariot Energy’s launch.

## POSITION OVERVIEW

We are seeking a technical and driven professional, at a director level, who is independent, results-oriented, self-motivated and wants to be part of a dynamic organization. The ideal candidate will have experience in deregulated retail electricity space as well as a technical background.  As part of the risk desk enabling the growth of Chariot/Hanwha Energy USA’s business, this role will be responsible for running and maintaining all analytical tools needed for risk management activities in various US power and natural gas markets working closely with Supply and Technology teams.  Monitor and report risk metrics regularly to senior management, the successful candidate will gain exposure to a wide range of businesses and products in a global environment. Liaising with Supply, Operations and support staff. This role will ensure that trading systems adequately represent the risk profile of the trading books, and that risk numbers are reported in an accurate and timely manner. Building strong relationships with clients and stakeholders across all levels and interacting regularly with Executive leadership to ensure the market risks arising from day-to-day trading positions are fully understood and managed appropriately within the limit framework.

This role will be located in Houston Texas, and the ideal candidate will be within commutable distance to the Houston office location. This is an onsite required role.

## RESPONSIBILITIES

- Assist in the marking of all the relevant wholesale and retail price curves including implied hourly scalers and scarcity premiums,
- Build and maintain monitoring checks to ensure compliance of all approved risk limits including position, mark-to-market and simulation based reports
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a global, matrixed organization, with resilience and a results-driven approach.
- Analyze complex financial information and reports to provide accurate and timely financial information to supply team and management for decision-making purposes
- Preparing financial models and data mining tools for variance analysis
- Analyzing complex financial information and reports to provide accurate and timely financial information to supply team and management for decision-making purposes
- Review, validate, and explain daily risk movements, key drivers, and sensitivities
- Monitor commodity positions versus limits in accordance with approved risk mandates and escalation procedures.

## REQUIRED COMPETENCIES

- Proven problem-solving capability with strong analytical skills including statistical analysis,
- Stakeholder Engagement – Understands the importance of seeking out relationships and working with others toward a shared goal.
- Domain Knowledge: Strong familiarity with North American energy markets (Power, Gas, or Environmental products), deregulated energy markets, modeling of physical assets, and the workflows of front / middle / back office associated with trading desks.
- Technical Fluency - Deep understanding of real-time data delivery, APIs, and the technical requirements of high-frequency trading environments.
- Builder Mindset - Demonstrated success in launching new products from concept to market dominance.
- Excel in agile environments and have a track record of increasing deployment velocity.
- Strong interpersonal and presentation skills coupled with deep analytical capabilities.
- Ability to multitask and work under multiple deadlines

## REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor’s Degree Required in Finance, Economics or any other hard science quantitative.
- 8 - 10 years of work experience in Energy commodities trading, commodities financing, financial markets with a minimum of six (6) years in a Market Risk, Management role.
- Familiarity with trading systems, data structures, and interfaces, and an advanced grasp of financial market concepts/theory.
- Ability to assess mathematical derivative pricing models within the context of real-world market conditions.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and consulting skills, with the ability to form independent views on risk
- Excellent communication skills, confident in engaging with senior business leaders and risk management colleagues.

## PREFFERED QUALIFICATIONS

- Advanced technological skills particularly financial modeling in Excel and Access
- Development skills in SQL, R or Python
- Financial Risk Manager (FRM) and/or CFA a plus

Hanwha Energy USA d/b/a Chariot Energy, provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. [www.mychariotenergy.com](http://www.mychariotenergy.com)

## About Hanwha Energy USA

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Hanwha Energy USA is the U.S. investment and incubation arm of Hanwha Energy, building a connected portfolio of renewable energy, data center infrastructure, and dispatchable generation businesses across the United States.
- **Entity Type**: Private (wholly owned subsidiary of Hanwha Energy Corporation, part of Hanwha Group)
- **Headquarters**: Houston, Texas, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Not publicly available; the company was established as a U.S. subsidiary of Hanwha Energy Corporation

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Renewable energy generation (utility-scale solar and battery storage), data center infrastructure development, dispatchable gas power generation, and retail energy supply.
- **Target customers**: Utilities, grid operators, hyperscale and enterprise data center users, industrial and manufacturing facilities, commercial and residential energy consumers, infrastructure investors, and local communities [hanwhaenergyusa.com](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/about-us/).
- **Mission or purpose statement**: The company operates without a single explicit mission statement on its web pages, but its vision centers on "advancing energy infrastructure across the United States" by building "innovative, long-term energy solutions that drive a more sustainable future" [hanwhaenergyusa.com](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/).

## Products & Services
Hanwha Energy USA operates as a holding and investment platform with several distinct operating companies:
- **[Hanwha Renewables]**: Utility-scale solar and battery energy storage development across the U.S. The company has signed nearly 2 gigawatts (GW) of power purchase agreements and has more than 8 GW of additional projects in its development pipeline [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hanwhaenergyusa).
- **[Hanwha Data Centers]**: Development of powered land and integrated energy solutions for hyperscale and enterprise data center users, addressing power availability and infrastructure constraints [hanwhaenergyusa.com](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/).
- **[Hanwha Gas Power Solutions]**: A dispatchable generation platform offering both behind-the-meter (BTM) and front-of-the-meter (FTM) solutions for grid stability and energy-intensive customers [hanwhaenergyusa.com](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/about-us/).
- **[Chariot Energy]**: A retail electricity provider serving residential and commercial consumers in the ERCOT (Texas) and PJM (Northeast/Midwest) deregulated markets, known for creative product structures and award-winning customer care [hanwhaenergyusa.com](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private, wholly owned subsidiary).
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$210 million** (debt financing, announced September 2019) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hanwhaenergyusa). The company is backed by the parent, Hanwha Energy, a Fortune Global 500 enterprise.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Solely owned by **Hanwha Energy Corporation**, which is a subsidiary of **Hanwha Group**, a Fortune Global 500 conglomerate with decades of leadership in energy, materials, aerospace, and advanced manufacturing [hanwhaenergyusa.com](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/about-us/).
- **Growth Signals**: The company has a massive pipeline of over 8 GW of new solar and battery projects, is actively expanding into the data center infrastructure market, and currently lists 12+ active job openings across corporate, finance, legal, strategy, and project development roles [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hanwhaenergyusa). It has 27,812 LinkedIn followers and employs 163 people (as of Q2 2026).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Integrated Platform Model**: Unlike many pure-play developers, Hanwha Energy USA controls a complete energy ecosystem — generation (solar, gas), storage (batteries), infrastructure (data centers), and retail supply (Chariot Energy) — allowing it to offer end-to-end solutions and capture value across the chain [hanwhaenergyusa.com](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/).
- **Parent Company Backing**: Being part of the Fortune Global 500 Hanwha Group provides access to deep capital, global expertise, and a long-term investment horizon that many competitors lack [hanwhaenergyusa.com](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/about-us/).
- **Large Development Pipeline**: With nearly 2 GW of PPAs signed and 8+ GW under development, the company has significant scale concentrated in the fast-growing utility solar and storage market [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hanwhaenergyusa).
- **Grid Reliability Focus**: The addition of the Gas Power Solutions division shows an ability to provide dispatchable, flexible power — a key differentiator in an energy transition landscape where intermittent renewables need reliable backup.

## Strategic Focus
- **U.S. Energy Infrastructure Buildout**: The company is prioritizing the development of powered land and integrated energy solutions for hyperscale data centers, addressing a critical bottleneck in the AI and cloud computing boom [hanwhaenergyusa.com](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/).
- **Renewable Energy Expansion**: Continuing to advance its 8+ GW utility-scale solar and BESS pipeline across multiple U.S. markets.
- **Portfolio Integration**: Aligning its operating companies (Renewables, Data Centers, Gas Power, Retail) to create a seamless "plug-and-play" energy ecosystem for large customers [hanwhaenergyusa.com](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/about-us/).
- **Talent Acquisition**: Actively recruiting across development, engineering, strategy, finance, legal, and commercial roles to scale the U.S. platform [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/hanwhaenergyusa).

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Work**: Employees contribute to building America's energy infrastructure, working on projects that directly impact decarbonization, grid reliability, and AI infrastructure — combining "scale with purpose" [hanwhaenergyusa.com](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/careers/).
- **Entrepreneurial Culture Within a Global Giant**: The company describes its culture as "deeply hands-on, entrepreneurial, and focused on building energy solutions that last" despite being backed by a Fortune Global 500 parent [hanwhaenergyusa.com](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/careers/).
- **Long-Term Stability & Growth**: Hanwha Energy USA explicitly builds "careers and businesses designed to grow over decades, not quarters," suggesting strong job stability and opportunities for internal mobility across its operating companies [hanwhaenergyusa.com](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/careers/).
- **Benefits**: Competitive pay, performance-based compensation, annual 401(k) match, health and wellness benefits, PTO and holidays, and learning/development opportunities [hanwhaenergyusa.com](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/careers/). Work location is likely Houston, Texas (HQ), with hybrid/office expectations based on the roles posted.
- **Diverse, Portfolio-Wide Career Paths**: Employees can move between renewable development, data center infrastructure, gas power, retail supply, and corporate functions without changing employers [hanwhaenergyusa.com](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/careers/).

## Sources
1. [hanwhaenergyusa.com - Homepage](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/)
2. [hanwhaenergyusa.com - About Us](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/about-us/)
3. [hanwhaenergyusa.com - Careers](https://www.hanwhaenergyusa.com/careers/)
4. [linkedin.com - Hanwha Energy USA Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hanwhaenergyusa)
5. [greenhouse.io - Hanwha Energy USA Job Board](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/hanwhaenergyusa)

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