Head of Product, PetroX

Austin, TX Growth / On-site The Company MaverickX is engineering the future of chemistry for natural resource extraction. We are intensely focused on bringing economic value to our customers, shareholders, and employees, while solving pressing resource challenges facing the United States and the world. The Team The Growth team is responsible for turning MaverickX’s research and technology platform into transformational solutions for critical industries, and deploying them at scale. We own the full commercial path: developing transformational products, building iron-clad customer relationships, and deploying our technology safely, reliably, and with unmatched efficiency. The Role We are seeking an experienced, high-agency Head of Product to take ownership over our PetroX technology. PetroX is MaverickX’s portfolio of biochemistry engineered for the oilfield. It is non-hazmat, non-toxic, and spans applications across the entire oil value chain, from production through midstream and refining. The portfolio is in active commercial validation with leading operators. You will translate our chemistry platform into commercial products: defining what we sell, designing the experiments that validate it, building the economic case that wins it, and serving as the senior technical voice that closes operator conversations. You will report to our Director of Growth and partner closely with our Chief Scientist.

Responsibilities

• Product Definition & Formulation: Own the technical definition of every PetroX product. Partner with our chemists and biologists to formulate new products and extend existing ones.
• Experimental Design & Protocol Writing: Design the validation programs and write the protocols our lab executes: test matrices, success criteria, methods, and controls.
• Validation Cycle Ownership: Own the full validation cycle (internal lab, third-party, customer) and turn outcomes into the proof points that convert pilots into wins.
• Portfolio & Lifecycle Management: Maintain a current view of where every product sits, operating within our stage-gated framework with formal pass/fail decisions at each gate.
• Technical Sales: Be MaverickX’s senior technical voice with operators, service companies, and distributors, and lead the technical relationship for major accounts.
• Product Economics: Own the technical inputs to unit economics (dosing, performance, treatment cost) and defend the assumptions in customer conversations.
• Sales Enablement: Build the data sheets, performance summaries, and proposals that win against entrenched competitors.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Petroleum Engineering, or related field; advanced degree welcome but not required
• 7+ years of oilfield chemistry experience, with hands-on formulation, application testing, and customer-facing technical work
• Depth across the core production chemistry stack, including iron control, scale, corrosion, paraffin,and flow assurance
• Direct experience in production enhancement chemistry,includings timulation , completions , or enhanced oil recovery (EOR)
• Recent hands-on protocol experience; able to walk through a protocol personally written in last 12 months (test matrix , conditions , success criteria , controls )
• Track record of taking products from concept to commercial deployment: formulation , lab validation , customer trials , optimization
• Comfortable as technical voice with operators/service companies/distributors for both technical buyersand executive decision makers
• Strong commercial fluency on product economics: dose , treatment cost,value delivered,payback period
• Comfortable with Excel for technical/commercial analysis; Python or comparable tooling a plus
• Bias toward actionand strong ownership; comfortable without corporate playbook
• Strong desire to contribute meaningfully to American dynamismand global resource supply chain

Preferred Qualifications

• Adjacent application experience in water treatment chemistry , demulsifiers/separation chemistry or midstream chemistry
• Existing relationships with technical decision makers at major operators/service companies/chemical distributors
• Experience with TSCA compliance,CAS registration or chemical regulatory pathways
• Background in biochemistry/biotechnology/peptide chemistry/biocatalysis or other emerging chemical technologies in oilfield
• Technical proficiency with business/analytical tools (Excel/PowerPoint/HubSpot/Python/SQL/Tableau/Cursor)

Additional Requirements

• On-site in Austin TX
• Willing to work extended hours as needed
• Willing to travel to customer sites,MaverickX facilities,and industry events

Our Values

• Customer First: Priority is giving customers technology that makes their business more valuable; no deviation from this north star
• Play to Win: Professional team; hardcore work ethic baseline; measurable impact defines success
• Extreme Ownership: Self-starters who learn voraciously/master domain/take full accountability for outcomes
• Relentless Execution: Good ideas must solve customer problems; move with speed/focus/determination
• Radical Candor: Focused/direct/impactful communication; no beating around bush
• Shared Success: Meaningful equity participation means when MaverickX wins everyone wins
• Uncompromised Integrity: First-class business done first-class way; loyal to customers/shareholders/employees/country

Benefits

• Compensation packages reflect recognition of employee value & commitment to recruiting top talent
• Premium health insurance: medical/dental/optical options offering some of best coverage on market
• Continuing education: serious about employee development via continuous learning initiatives

Location: Austin , TX (On-site) Remote Work Policy: On-site required (no remote mentioned) Employment Type: Not explicitly stated but implied full-time role on-site with extended hours as needed Experience Level: Senior level (7+ years oilfield chemistry experience required) Skills / Technologies Mentioned: Chemical Engineering / Chemistry / Petroleum Engineering / Oilfield Chemistry / Formulation / Application Testing / Experimental Design / Protocol Writing / Validation Cycle Management / Technical Sales / Product Economics / Excel / Python (or comparable tooling) / TSCA Compliance / CAS Registration / Biochemistry / Biotechnology / Peptide Chemistry / Biocatalysis / Business Tools (PowerPoint/HubSpot/SQL/Tableau/Cursor)