Senior Manager of Finance, Crusoe Energy Systems
Corporate
$195-235k
+ Bonus + Restricted Stock Units
Crusoe offers sponsorship
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
Be an early applicant
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$195-235k
+ Bonus + Restricted Stock Units
Crusoe offers sponsorship
1001+ employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of progressive finance experience, including meaningful ownership of headcount and/or OpEx planning and reporting
- Strong financial modeling skills, with advanced proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets and experience with planning tools (e.g., Anaplan, Adaptive, Workday, or similar)
- Demonstrated ability to partner with People/Recruiting teams and translate hiring plans into financial impact
- Track record of owning a budgeting and actuals reporting process end-to-end, including variance analysis and stakeholder communication
- Excellent attention to detail and a strong sense of ownership over data accuracy — headcount and OpEx numbers get scrutinized by leadership every month
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain budget and variance drivers clearly to non-finance stakeholders
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field; MBA a plus
What the job involves
- Crusoe's Finance team is looking for a Senior Manager to own headcount and operating expense (OpEx) finance across the company
- This role is the single source of truth for how many people we have, how many we're planning to hire, and what we're spending outside of capital projects — and it's responsible for the planning, budgeting, forecasting, and actuals reporting that keeps leadership and the business aligned on both
- You'll partner with People, Recruiting, and department leaders on headcount planning, own the OpEx budget process end-to-end, and make sure monthly actuals tell an accurate, timely story against plan
- This is a highly visible role for someone who wants to bring structure and rigor to how a scaling company manages its people and operating costs
- Headcount Planning & Tracking: own the headcount plan and forecast across the company, partnering with People and department leaders to track open reqs, hiring pace, and attrition against plan
- OpEx Budgeting/forecasting: lead the annual budgeting and in-year OpEx forecasting process across departments, working with budget owners to build defensible, well-documented plans
- Actuals Reporting & Variance Analysis: own monthly and quarterly actuals reporting for headcount and OpEx, identifying variances to plan and partnering with budget owners on root cause and corrective action
- Forecast Management: maintain rolling headcount and OpEx forecasts, updating for approved changes, hiring plan shifts, and in-year business decisions
- Business Partnering: serve as the go-to finance contact for department leaders on headcount and OpEx questions, helping them understand their budgets and make informed trade-offs. Partner with HR on new or changing benefit ideas to improve employee’s experience. Additionally, partner with Marketing and other leaders on OPEX budgets / plans and associated ROI
- Process & Systems Improvement: improve the tools and processes used to plan, track, and report on headcount and OpEx, reducing manual reconciliation and increasing self-serve visibility for stakeholders
- Executive & Board Reporting: prepare clear, accurate headcount and OpEx reporting packages for executive leadership and the board
Our take
Crusoe is tackling one of the biggest challenges facing the digital age: the enormous energy demand of data centres and AI infrastructure. As AI models grow more powerful, they require immense computing power (and therefor electricity) to train and operate. This surge in energy use has put some pressure on power grids, driven up costs, and raised environmental concerns. Crusoe is on a mission to make this process more sustainable by finding smarter, cleaner, and more efficient ways to power the data centres that drive modern computing.
The company started out by putting wasted energy to work. Originally known as Crusoe Energy, it captured natural gas that would otherwise be burned off ("flared") at remote oil sites and used it to power modular data centres. Today, Crusoe has evolved into a major player in AI infrastructure, designing and operating large-scale data centres near renewable or stranded energy sources. It's now one of a handful of "neocloud" companies (next-generation cloud providers focused on flexible, efficient computing for AI workloads). And its facilities are helping tech giants like OpenAI handle the massive computing requirements of training advanced AI models.
Recently, Crusoe has attracted some huge investor attention, tripling its valuation to over $10B and raising almost $1.4B in its 2025 funding round. It's building OpenAI's first major US data centre campus and even experimenting with bold new frontiers. In partnership with Starcloud, Crusoe plans to deploy the world's first space-based cloud computing infrastructure, powered by solar energy and orbiting the Earth by 2027. If successful, this could redefine how and where computing happens, opening up a cleaner, virtually limitless source of energy for AI's next generation.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Oct 2025
$1.4bn
SERIES E
Dec 2024
$600m
SERIES D
Total funding: $2.5bn
Company benefits
- Health & wellbeing: Comprehensive health benefits designed to support your overall wellness
- Time away: Paid time off for vacations, family bonding, and unexpected needs
- 401(k) match: Build your financial future with our 401(k) matching program
- Mental wellness: Resources and support for your emotional wellbeing and navigating life's challenges
Company HQ
Union Station, Denver, CO
Leadership
Cully Cavness
(Co-Founder, COO & President)Began their career as an Energy Infrastructure Research Fellow before spending 3 years as a Business Development Manager at Recurrent Engineering and serving as CFO of Sword & Plough. They left their role as VP of Highlands Natural Resources to co-found Crusoe Energy Systems.
Chase Lochmiller
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Crusoe in 2018, Chase was a General Partner at Polychain Capital, a Quantitative Trade at Jump Trading Group, and a Managing Director of Algorithmic Trading at KCG Holdings.
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