Senior Director of Employee Success, Crusoe Energy Systems
$225-265k
+ Equity + Bonus
More information about location
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
Job no longer available
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$225-265k
+ Equity + Bonus
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- 15+ Years of Experience: You have an extensive track record in HR leadership, with at least 8 years specifically leading teams within high-growth, global tech or industrial companies
- The "Scaling Expert": You have successfully build programs and processes from 0-1, and also have navigated an organization through the "messy middle" of growth (e.g., 500 to 2,500+ employees) and understand the infrastructure needed at each stage
- Industry Depth: You bring specific experience managing diverse employee populations, including software engineers, data center technicians, and construction/unionized labor
- Commercial & Technical Mindset: You treat "People Success" like a product. You are comfortable with technoeconomic modeling, data analytics, and using HRIS/BI tools to prove the ROI of people initiatives
- High-Intensity Leadership: You thrive in high-trust, high-accountability environments. You are comfortable with ambiguity and possess a "bias towards action" during rapid-fire decision-making
- Elite Communication: You can distill complex organizational issues into "decision-grade" memos for the Board and Executive team
- Global Perspective: You have a deep understanding of international labor markets and have managed employee success across North America, Europe, and emerging markets
- 15+ years in HRBP, Employee Relations, or People Operations leadership
- Demonstrated experience managing and building a People organization from the ground up
- Proven expertise in compensation design, succession planning, and workforce analytics
- Ability to travel up to 40-50% to support global sites and data center locations
What the job involves
- We are looking for a seasoned, strategic leader to join our People Team as the Director, Employee Success
- This is a leadership role designed for a "builder" who can bridge the gap between high-level business strategy and the daily employee experience
- Reporting to the Chief People Officer, you will own the end-to-end talent strategy for our most critical business units, ensuring that our people's growth and organizational design are as innovative as our technology
- You will lead, manage, and scale a team of Employee Success Business Partners ensuring that Crusoe remains a world-class employer as we continue our rapid global expansion
- Your mission is to build a highly resilient organization where employee retention, leadership excellence, and operational efficiency drive our competitive advantage in the AI and energy infrastructure space
- High-Performance Culture & Calibration: Design the enterprise-wide frameworks for talent calibration and performance management. You will be responsible for the "last mile" delivery of these programs—ensuring that corporate policy translates into meaningful, consistent execution by managers on the ground
- Leadership Excellence & Manager Coaching: Partner directly with leaders to drive organizational effectiveness. You will serve as a high-trust coach, helping managers navigate the complexities of leading diverse teams across technical, industrial, and global environments
- Organizational Architecture & Design: Lead strategic workforce planning and organizational design to ensure our structure evolves ahead of our growth. You will manage the change management frameworks required to keep the organization aligned during rapid global scaling and restructuring
- Talent Identification & 9-Box Implementation: Direct the methodology for identifying high-potential performers. You will implement and oversee the 9-Box Talent Matrix to facilitate leadership reviews, ensuring a deep and visible bench of future leaders across the Digital Infrastructure and Energy teams
- Strategic Retention & Engagement: Create and implement data-driven employee retention and engagement programs. You will analyze organizational health metrics to design interventions that reduce turnover and maximize the "employee lifetime value" at Crusoe
- Employee Experience & Growth Advocacy: Champion the end-to-end employee experience. You will build clear growth pathways and mobility programs that allow our best talent to evolve their careers within the company, bridging the gap between current
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
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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