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Head of Market Operations

Support buying, selling and risk as a daily discipline, inside our customers' limits.

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Team
Market Operations
Location
Remote, US + customer site travel
Type
Full time
Base salary
$170k to $220k + equity
Market Operations | Remote, US + customer site travel | Full time | Reports to the CEOFuture roleJOB-2026-MO-001

We are not hiring for this role yet. We read every application, and we may contact you when the role opens.

Support buying, selling and risk as a daily discipline, inside our customers' limits. Few companies run their market exposure as a daily discipline. You support their desk: daily positions, limits and exposure, with every result explained.

What you'll do

  • Support the Desk: Work inside each customer's limits and policy. The customer makes the final call
  • Positions & Exposure: Track daily positions, limits and exposure across every account
  • Daily Explain: Explain profit and loss line by line, every day
  • Exceptions: Escalate any position that sits outside its limits, before the customer sees it
  • Automate the Desk: Specify manual desk work so the product and engineering team can build it away
  • Clean Book: Make sure that we never carry market risk on our own book

What you will have delivered

  1. Day 90Every customer exposure understood, across dairy and freight
  2. Month 6Daily routine running: positions, limits, explain, exceptions
  3. Month 12Method written down so another person can run it. Gain proved against a written baseline. Three manual processes handed over to be automated

How we will measure it

  • P&L explained line by line, every dayFails when a result nobody predicted cannot be explained
  • Exceptions raised by us first: allFails when a customer finds one first
  • Market risk on our own book: zeroFails at any amount

Required

  • Ran a commodity desk, treasury function or risk team at a physical company
  • Hedged a physical book against actual volumes
  • Worked in a commodity trading and risk management (CTRM) system
  • Reconcile and explain positions every day as routine
  • Can write a method down so someone else can run it

Preferred

  • Dairy or other agricultural, freight, metals or energy exposure
  • Built or replaced a CTRM workflow
  • Set hedge policy with a board or a CFO

Not the role for you if

  • You want a proprietary book to trade
  • You traded only financial instruments, never physical exposure
  • You would rather stay the expert than make the judgment repeatable

How we hire, once the role opens

  1. 1 ApplyReceipt in 5 days
  2. 2 CEO call45 min
  3. 3 Working session2 hours
  4. 4 References1 week
  5. 5 Offer2 days after refs

Vadar Alpha builds commercial intelligence for companies that make and move physical goods. Our software helps them buy inputs lower, sell outputs higher, and protect every margin in between.

Base salary $170,000 to $220,000, plus equity, performance pay and health coverage (QSEHRA). This is a pipeline posting. We review applications every quarter.

How to apply
Send one thing you built, ran or wrote, and a paragraph on your first 90 days.
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Head of Market Operations
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Vadar Alpha is an equal opportunity employer. Need an accommodation to apply? Email jobs@vadaralpha.com.