Staff Product Manager, Crusoe Energy Systems
Fleet Management
$208.7-253k
+ RSUs + Bonus
Crusoe offers sponsorship
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
Open for applications
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$208.7-253k
+ RSUs + Bonus
Crusoe offers sponsorship
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- Infrastructure Product Expertise: 6+ years of product management experience delivering complex infrastructure or platform products at scale
- Deep Fleet Knowledge: Comprehensive expertise in provisioning, lifecycle management, and the operational nuances of managing large server clusters
- Technical Proficiency: A strong understanding of distributed systems, server hardware components, and infrastructure automation
- Problem-Solving Agility: A proven ability to navigate high-ambiguity environments and solve novel technical problems through research and creative analysis
- Strategic Execution: A track record of driving product visions that balance long-term technical tradeoffs with immediate operational requirements
- Collaborative Influence: Experience building consensus across diverse teams—Engineering, Operations, and Infrastructure—to align on investment priorities
- Analytical Rigor: Strong skills in interpreting operational metrics and utilization patterns to guide high-stakes product decisions
Desirable
- AI/ML Scale: Experience managing large-scale GPU clusters specifically optimized for AI/ML platform operations
- Automation Mastery: Familiarity with orchestration systems like Kubernetes or Slurm, and modern configuration management platforms
- Operational Background: A professional history in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure operations prior to transitioning into Product Management
- Observability & Incident Flow: Experience with modern observability platforms and building incident management workflows
- Predictive Systems: Knowledge of hardware lifecycle management, including predictive maintenance or advanced capacity planning
What the job involves
- As the Staff Product Manager for Fleet, you will be the primary architect of the strategy and execution for Crusoe’s fleet management capabilities
- You will ensure the reliable, efficient operation of our massive-scale GPU and CPU infrastructure, defining how we provision, monitor, maintain, and optimize the thousands of servers that power global AI training and inference workloads
- This role is mission-critical to the full lifecycle of our compute resources—transforming operational requirements into scalable, automated product capabilities
- Working at the high-stakes intersection of infrastructure operations, engineering, and customer experience, you will lead cross-functional initiatives that directly influence Crusoe’s ability to scale
- As a recognized subject matter expert, you will be accountable for fleet-level systems that maximize utilization and minimize downtime, ensuring our sustainable cloud remains the most reliable choice for the world's most demanding AI workloads
- Fleet Vision & Strategy: Own the end-to-end product strategy for fleet management, including automated provisioning, health monitoring, maintenance orchestration, and performance optimization
- Infrastructure Reliability: Define the product direction for systems managing large-scale GPU/CPU clusters, focusing on operational efficiency and high-nines reliability
- Lifecycle Management: Drive the full lifecycle of compute resources, ensuring cohesive management from initial hardware "burn-in" through to decommissioning
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Lead complex initiatives spanning engineering, networking, and infra-ops to deliver integrated solutions that reduce manual overhead
- Technical Consensus Building: Partner with Tech Leads and Senior Managers to influence architectural decisions, tooling investments, and systemic process improvements
- Optimization & Observability: Identify product innovations that enhance system observability, improve fleet-wide utilization, and reduce long-term operational costs
- Data-Driven Planning: Collaborate with Finance and Operations to define metrics that inform critical capacity planning and capital allocation decisions
- Customer Advocacy: Work with Customer Success to understand how fleet performance impacts real-world workloads, translating that feedback into a robust technical roadmap
- Mentorship: Act as a leader within the Product org, mentoring peers and engineers in complex systems thinking and infrastructure operations
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 $1.4B in its latest 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
LoDo, 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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