The Trader I/II/Sr./Principal is responsible for managing and optimizing a natural gas trading portfolio with a focus on US East market, leveraging detailed market analysis, risk management, and execution of physical and financial transactions. The position requires deep knowledge of US East supply/demand dynamics, pipeline flows, and pricing hubs, along with strong quantitative and analytical skills to make disciplined decisions in fast-moving market conditions. The trader partners closely with risk, operations, and commercial teams to drive profitability while adhering to firm risk limits and compliance standards. 

The Trader I/II/Sr/Principal responsibilities include but are not limited to: 

• Initiate, develop and execute strategies to capture profitable term natural gas trading opportunities within the US East region. 

• Monitor and evaluate relevant market conditions, pivoting in/out of trades as necessitated by market conditions. 

• Evaluate existing trading processes and collaborate with trading personnel to improve efficiency, transparency and value-added measures. 

• Evaluate, execute, and manage short and long-term storage positions across the US East, optimizing around seasonal spreads, and power and industrial load to create incremental value. 

• Use experience to develop optimization and trading strategies and direct origination efforts to execute these strategies. 

• This role is expected to be able to clearly communicate summaries of relevant market conditions & opportunities upward within the organization. 

• Primary responsibility for establishing and executing trading strategies to optimize the value of EQT's contractual pipeline capacity & storage assets. 

Required Experience and Skills: 

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, economics, or related field. 

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in natural gas trading, scheduling, and origination. 

• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, strong verbal and written communication skills. 

• Creative/innovative with strong ability to understand market conditions and then translate into profitable results. 

• Knowledge and understanding of regional pipeline/storage infrastructure and respective supply and demand composition and working relationships with commercial participants. 

• Ability to construct a regional supply & demand model, knowledge of specific pipeline constraints, flows, costs, storage, contracts, end users and scheduling. 

• Experience trading physical, futures, swaps, options, storage, index and spreads. 

• Ability to meaningfully contribute to the development of natural gas commercial strategies. 

• Working relationship with commercial participants (producers/pipelines/utilities/end users/traders). 

• Understanding of the calculation of intrinsic & extrinsic values of transportation capacity and storage opportunities. 

• Ability to travel up to 10-20% of the time for customer events, industry conferences, and team gatherings.  

Preferred Experience and Skills: 

• 5+ years of experience in natural gas trading, scheduling, and origination. 

• Masters degree in business, finance, engineering, or related field. 

Remote work is being considered for this role excluding the following states:  California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and Tennessee unless willing to relocate.