Crude Oil Commodity Owner

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.

Crude Oil Commodity Owner

This role can be based in one of multiple locations- Houston, Dubai, London, Geneva, Singapore.

Crude is moving. The question is whether you see it before everyone else does.

Sparta is building the data platform that crude traders, analysts, and commercial teams rely on to make faster, better decisions. We cover forward curves, price assessments, market intelligence, and trade flows across the global energy complex — and crude is at the centre of it. We're looking for someone to own it.

Reporting to our Head of Commodities, this role is an opportunity to own a vertical, build your profile, and be genuinely central to the direction of the business.

The role

This isn't an analyst position. It's not a support role. It's the chance to become Sparta's primary crude voice- internally and externally- and to build something from a strong foundation.

You'll sit at the intersection of commercial, product, and market expertise. You'll be the internal and external authority on crude oil: responsible for the health, growth, and strategic development of the vertical, while acting as a key face to clients on complex and technical engagements. You'll need to be equally comfortable deep in the market microstructure of crude- cash differentials, arbitrage dynamics, price relationships- as you are presenting to senior client stakeholders or shaping the product roadmap.

What you'll do

Crude Vertical Ownership & Strategy (~50% of role)

• Own the crude vertical end-to-end: its commercial performance, product integrity, and strategic direction

• Serve as the internal advocate for crude across product, sales, and research teams

• Lead the development and build-out of the next generation of crude-related offerings and data products

• Define and prioritise the crude product roadmap in close collaboration with product and technology teams

• Act as the primary subject matter expert for all crude-related decisions across the business

Client Interactions & Technical Demos (~10–20% of role)

• Lead complex, discovery-focused, and technical client conversations and demos

• Support sales and account management teams on senior or strategically important crude opportunities

• Represent the firm at industry events, conferences, and client visits as a crude subject matter expert

Market Commentaries & Content (~12.5% of role)

• Take editorial ownership of crude-related market commentaries and content output

• Define the voice and analytical framework for crude commentary across client-facing and marketing channels

• Work closely with analysts and content contributors to ensure quality, accuracy, and commercial relevance

Process & Maintenance (~10–20% of role)

• Oversee operational processes underpinning the crude vertical: cash differential uploads, onboarding of new arbitrage routes and price points, ongoing data quality and coverage

• Establish scalable processes and, where appropriate, delegate or automate routine tasks

What we're looking for

Required

• Deep crude oil market expertise — strong working knowledge of crude benchmarks, differentials, arbitrage mechanics, refinery economics, and global crude flows

• Proven experience in a commodity-facing role within energy trading, data/analytics, financial services, or a closely related field

• Track record of owning or significantly contributing to a product or vertical within a commercial organisation

• Confident and credible in client-facing settings, including technical discovery calls and C-suite presentations

• Ability to translate market complexity into clear product requirements and client value propositions

• Strong communication skills — written and verbal — with experience producing or overseeing market commentary

• Comfortable working cross-functionally with sales, product, technology, and research teams

Desirable

• Experience with pricing, data, or analytics platforms in the energy space

• Familiarity with crude data operations: cash diffs, price curve maintenance

• Existing network within the crude trading or energy markets community

• Experience and confidence in using Python and of adopting and using AI tooling

What success looks like

In your first six months, you will have:

• Taken full ownership of the crude vertical and its operational processes

• Established yourself as the go-to internal and external authority on crude

• Contributed meaningfully to the roadmap for the further improvement of crude vertical and feature additions

• Built strong working relationships with the content team and begun shaping commentary output

• Led technical client engagements independently

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.