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# Head of Research at Sparta

- **Company:** Sparta
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sparta-commodities/4fbbd9cb-5c7a-430e-b705-a7ad686d05f3

## Job description

We Are Sparta

Sparta is the next-generation commodity trading platform. We give trading desks the clarity, control, and collaboration they need to move faster and trade smarter.

In February 2025, we secured $42 million in Series B funding. Now we’re scaling up across the business, and it’s an exciting time to join. Our people are the driving force behind everything we do. At Sparta, you’ll be trusted to take ownership, backed by a team who wants you to succeed. You’ll be challenged, supported, and given room to grow. Because building something this ambitious takes everyone at their best. At Sparta, your work has reach. From improving our platform, to powering smarter decisions for our customers, to changing how commodity trading is done around the world. And because we’re growing fast, you won’t just build your career. You’ll accelerate it, with a level of ownership and impact you simply don’t get at bigger, more bureaucratic companies.

Head of Research

Sparta’s research is how the market gets to know us. Our Market Outlook pieces, commentaries and podcast are read and heard by traders across the industry — they carry the credibility behind everything we sell, and they feed the top of our sales funnel. As Head of Research, you’ll own that output: the standard it’s held to, the schedule it ships on, and the voice it carries. This is a senior, visible, client-facing role — you’ll be our most senior market voice, fronting webinars, media appearances, client briefings and the podcast, while coaching a team of commodity specialists to write sharper research. You’ll also work directly with our founders to design Sparta’s supply & demand fundamentals offering, and become the face of that offering as it develops.

## What you'll be doing

- Own the editorial standard for Market Outlook pieces and commentaries — if the writing isn’t good enough, it doesn’t ship.
- Run a consistent publishing cadence across every commodity vertical, working alongside the Head of Commodities and Head of Product Experts.
- Lead the Sparta podcast: its standard, schedule and editorial direction.
- Be a lead market voice for Sparta — webinars, breakfast briefings, client events, media appearances and in-person briefings.
- Stay on top of the whole barrel as a credible cross-market analyst, with particular depth in light ends (gasoline, naphtha/LPG).
- Coach and develop the Commodity Owner team through feedback, mentoring and example.
- Partner with Sales and Marketing so research generates leads and reinforces trust with customers.
- Work with our founders to shape Sparta’s fundamentals offering for 2027, and become its client-facing lead as it develops.

## About you

- A recognised name in commodity markets research, with a strong track record of published commentary the market already trusts.
- A cross-market analyst with global, cross-barrel knowledge — particularly strong on gasoline, with Atlantic Basin (especially US) depth on products markets.
- Hands-on experience building supply & demand balances at regional and macro level, comfortable with refinery outage, ship tracking and inventory data.
- An excellent writer and generous editor, with a track record of mentoring junior analysts.
- Comfortable and credible in front of customers and cameras — webinars, events, podcasts and media.
- An existing network across the analyst community.
- Commercially minded, but never swayed on market calls by external pressure — you back your own judgement.
- Senior enough to balance day-to-day publishing against longer-term goals, and to lead people who don’t report to you.

## Nice to have

- Experience working with engineers and data scientists to build research and models that shipped
- A formed view on what a differentiated fundamentals offering looks like.

This is a rare chance to be the senior market voice for a fast-growing, VC-backed platform — with real ownership over Sparta’s fundamentals story as it’s built from the ground up.

Sparta Commodities is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and promotes diversity within its workforce. We are determined that no-one will ever receive less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, race, veteran status or any basis covered by appropriate law.

## About Sparta

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sparta provides a forward-looking market intelligence and analytics platform purpose-built for oil trading desks, delivering real-time pricing, predictive signals, and a collaborative workspace.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, $42M raised in March 2025 led by One Peak; total funding $65.5M)
- **Headquarters**: Geneva, Switzerland
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Felipe Elink Schuurman and Miles Moseley

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Oil & Gas (commodity trading) / Energy
- **Target customers**: B2B – trading houses, oil majors, refineries, hedge funds, and financial institutions operating in global oil markets
- **Mission/purpose**: Give trading teams the operating system they’ve always needed – real-time, forward-looking, and collaborative, designed for how commodity trading actually works

## Products & Services
- **[Sparta Platform](https://www.spartacommodities.com/)**: A unified workspace connecting physical and financial oil markets. Features include real-time pricing, forward curves, live arbitrage signals, blend margins, freight intelligence, and expert market commentary.
- **[Predictive Signals Platform](https://www.spartacommodities.com/)**: AI-powered trading signals, live forecasts for arbs, freight, and blend margins, over/undervaluation scores, and market dislocation alerts.
- **[Data Marketplace](https://www.spartacommodities.com/)**: Access to thousands of proprietary and third-party datasets delivered via API, SFTP, or bulk download, standardized for direct integration into models and dashboards.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metrics**: Annual revenue estimated at $5M–$25M (LinkedIn estimate); Total funding $65.5M (Seed $6M in 2022, Series A $17.5M in 2023, Series B $42M in 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: One Peak (led Series B), FirstMark (led Series A), Singular (led Seed round); partnerships with 30+ leading brokerages and data houses
- **Growth Signals**: 107 employees (+19.6% YoY); offices across 9 countries (US, Switzerland, UK, Spain, UAE, Singapore, Austria); regularly cited by Bloomberg, Reuters, and Financial Times

## Competitive Advantages
- Only forward-looking predictive analytics platform built specifically for oil trading desks, connecting physical and financial markets in one workspace
- Co-founded by veteran oil traders with 37+ years combined experience – built “by traders, for traders”
- Real-time, shared view of the full market with instant updates across cracks, arbs, margins, and blends
- Strong data moat with 5+ years of partnerships and thousands of standardized datasets

## Strategic Focus
- Continue expanding the “operating system for commodity trading” with deeper AI-driven forecasting and automation
- Scale the Data Marketplace and predictive signal capabilities for crude, refined products, and freight
- Grow global presence across US, Europe, and Asia (recent offices in Dubai, Singapore)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Sparta Code” emphasizes ownership, bias for action, honest feedback, and a “fall in love with the problem” mindset. Values include making reversible decisions quickly, treating conflict as a gift, and understanding the ‘why’ behind every mission.
- **Work model**: Hybrid workspace – employees combine remote and on-site work across 6+ global offices (Geneva, Houston, New York, London, Madrid, Valencia, Singapore, Dubai, Vienna)
- **Notable perks**: Autonomy and trust; flat hierarchy where “ask for forgiveness, not permission” is encouraged; strong backing from top-tier VCs; exposure to fast-growing energy tech sector
- **Engineering culture**: Focus on building a high-performance, collaborative environment; leadership includes Chief Technology Officer Tom Gorenbar Peled and Chief Product Officer

## Sources
1. [spartacommodities.com - About](https://www.spartacommodities.com/about/)
2. [spartacommodities.com - Careers](https://www.spartacommodities.com/careers/)
3. [linkedin.com - Sparta Commodities](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sparta-commodities)
4. [builtin.com - Sparta Commodities SA](https://builtin.com/company/sparta-commodities-sa)

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