Director of Recruiting, Crusoe Energy Systems
Digital Infrastructure
$215-255k
Offers bonus and equity, Restricted Stock Units
Crusoe offers sponsorship
5 days a week in office
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
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Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$215-255k
Offers bonus and equity, Restricted Stock Units
Crusoe offers sponsorship
5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- This role is responsible for ensuring hiring leaders, executives, and recruiters operate with shared standards, strong calibration, and clear accountability for hiring outcomes
- This role is for someone who sees recruiting as a competitive advantage — a strategic capability tied directly to execution, growth, and operational reliability
- You have 15+ years of experience in talent acquisition, including building and scaling recruiting functions in high-growth environments
- You have led talent acquisition in high paced environments, ideally with experience within Digital Infrastructure
- You use data and analytics to diagnose funnel performance, forecast risk, and hold teams accountable to outcomes
- You have run a metrics driven organization
- You have managed managers — not just individual recruiters — and have a track record of developing and growing recruiting leaders
- You have operated at both a scaled company and in a high-growth or startup environment, ideally seeing an organization through significant headcount expansion
- You build repeatable processes and scalable systems without over-engineering or leading with process at the expense of results
- You partner across levels and functions — from finance to engineering to executive leadership — adapting approach to each audience
- You operate with urgency, ownership, and accountability, measuring success by whether the right people are in seats, on time, and set up to succeed
- You bring curiosity and enthusiasm for AI tools and automation as applied to recruiting workflows and operations
What the job involves
- Crusoe is scaling fast, and the technical recruiting function needs to match that intensity
- Reporting to the VP of Recruiting, you will be leading a team of recruiters supporting our Digital Infrastructure Group hiring
- You will drive both immediate hiring outcomes and the operational infrastructure required to sustain the team through the next phase of growth
- This role inherits a team of recruiters and will be responsible for hiring and scaling the team it into a world-class talent acquisition engine
- The mandate is clear: deliver the talent Crusoe needs to fuel aggressive growth today while building the systems, processes, and team capabilities that support 2x, 3x, and 5x growth without breaking
- Recruiting is a core operating capability at Crusoe
- You will have the autonomy to make bold bets on process, technology, and team design that position Crusoe to scale without sacrificing quality or speed
- Lead talent acquisition for all Digital Infrastructure teams, aligning hiring roadmaps with business priorities, growth plans, and operational realities
- Build and scale a recruiting team that operates with speed, efficiency, judgment, and consistency — setting the standard for responsiveness and execution quality
- Serve as a strategic partner to hiring leaders, driving role clarity, calibration, and shared accountability for hiring outcomes
- Evolve the recruiting model to balance velocity with consistency — moving from reactive execution to proactive, predictable hiring
- Strengthen intake, workflow, and decision-making processes that eliminate bottlenecks and improve stakeholder and candidate experience
- Translate demand into structured hiring plans, proactively identifying talent gaps, timing risks, and capacity constraints
- Use data and analytics to diagnose funnel performance, forecast risks, and drive continuous improvement across every stage of the recruiting cycle
- Adopt AI, automation, and modern recruitment tools to increase efficiency, improve signal quality, and free the team to focus on high-judgment work
- Navigate the unique challenges of hiring across multiple divisions while working with other recruiting leadership to ensure hiring plans are cohesive
- Ensure every hiring manager, candidate, and team member experiences recruiting as responsive, fair, and reflective of Crusoe's standards
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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