Director of Applications

The Company

MaverickX is revitalizing critical resource extraction with precision biologics. We are a team of scientists, engineers, and business operators who are bringing cutting-edge biotechnology products to the world’s most critical industries. 

The Team

The Applications team owns the testing and performance validation of our chemistry, responsible for both lab evaluation and field execution. It is a small, cross-disciplinary group that works directly with technical operators to deploy, prove, and iterate on our solutions. Beyond the current field program, the team evaluates new applications for our chemical platform across the oilfield.

The Role

We are seeking a Director of Applications to lead the field implementation of our flagship oilfield product and to build the team and technology roadmap behind it. PetroX Boost is a biochemical treatment that selectively alters mineral phases in unconventional reservoirs, with the objective of enhanced oil production. We are currently planning field deployments with leading energy companies across America's most prominent shale basins. 

This is a hands-on leadership role. You will personally own lab-scale testing and validation, treatment plan design, field performance validation, product iteration, and the development of new applications for our platform, collaborating closely with the Growth and Bioprocess teams.

Responsibilities

• Treatment Design and Trial Ownership: Own end-to-end treatment design for our field program: fluid volume and concentration, carrier fluid, injection rate, pressure limits, shut-in, and flowback strategy. Translate laboratory dose-response, reaction kinetics, mineralogy, coreflood results, fracture geometry, and treatment economics into documented field recommendations. 

• Field Execution: Own the field deployment protocol, supervise treatments on location, interpret real-time data, and lead post-job evaluation.

• Placement & Diversion: Design placement and diversion strategies that achieve coverage across the full treated interval, for both standalone (e.g., bullhead) and frac-integrated deployment, and determine which delivery mode fits each well and customer.

• Customer Engagement: Work with the Growth team to build and conduct field partnerships with operators, serving as the technical voice in key customer discussions. 

• Formation Screening & Basin Expansion: Build the screening criteria that determine which formations and basins PetroX Boost serves. 

• Team Leadership: Lead the Applications team across stimulation chemistry, field engineering, and reservoir analysis. Set the technical agenda, develop the people, and own the function's results. Grow the team as the field program scales.

• Product Development: Lead the evaluation and development of new oilfield applications for our chemical platform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Petroleum Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or a related field

• BS with 15+ or MS with 10+ years in stimulation, completions, or production enhancement, with personal end-to-end ownership of treatment designs and their outcomes

• Direct, hands-on experience designing and executing stimulation or acidizing treatments across multiple basins

• Technical depth in matrix acidizing, reaction kinetics, placement and diversion, and precipitation and formation damage

• Experience specifying or interpreting coreflood and rock-fluid interaction testing

• Demonstrated ability to design for novel fluid systems where field history and offset data do not yet exist

• Experience leading, building or mentoring technical teams, or clear readiness to lead and build one

• Credible as the most senior technical voice with operators, both technical and executive

• Bias toward action and strong ownership; comfortable without a corporate playbook

• Strong desire to meaningfully contribute to American dynamism and the global resource supply chain

Preferred Qualifications

• Formal chemistry training alongside a stimulation engineering career

• Prior leadership of an applications, technical services, or field-technical organization in oilfield chemistry

• Direct experience in the Permian, Bakken, and Eagle Ford basins

• Experience with bio-based chemistries

• Experience with both standalone treatments and stimulation integrated into completions

• Working familiarity with production chemical programs and how stimulation fluids interact with them

• Operator and service company experience

Additional Requirements

• Must be willing to work on-site in Austin, TX

• Willing to travel to customer offices, field sites, other MaverickX facilities, and industry events, as needed

• Willing to work extended hours, as needed

• Physical requirements: lifting up to 50 lbs, reaching over head, bending, standing/on feet for long periods of time

• General occupational health requirements: BSL2 lab operation guidelines

• Strong skills in technical communication, writing and reporting to various audiences (technical and nontechnical backgrounds); ability to work well on a team and with coworkers of various scientific capabilities and backgrounds; ability to work independently

Our Values

• Customer First: Our first and foremost priority is to give customers technology that makes their business more valuable. There is no deviation from this north star
• Play to Win: This is a professional team, not a family. Hardcore work ethic is a baseline; Measurable impact is how we define success
• Extreme Ownership: We are self-starters who learn voraciously, master their domain, and take full accountability for the outcomes of their work
• Relentless Execution: A good idea is meaningless until it is solving a customer problem. Moving with speed, focus, and determination is how we win in our industry
• Radical Candor: Focused, direct, and impactful communication is our language. No time for beating around the bush
• Shared Success: Meaningful equity participation for employees means that when Maverick wins, everyone wins
• Uncompromised Integrity: We do first class business in a first class way, while staying loyal to our customers, shareholders, employees, and country

Benefits

• At Maverick X, our compensation packages reflect our recognition of the value our employees bring to our success and our commitment to recruiting top talent. We cater our benefits to ensure our team succeeds both in and out of the office 
• Premium health insurance: With medical, dental, and optical options, we offer some of the best coverage on the market 
• Continuing education: We take employee development seriously and strive to unlock our team’s full potential through continuous learning initiatives