Senior Director of Technical Program Management, Crusoe Energy Systems
$265-332k
+ Equity + Bonus
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
Be an early applicant
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$265-332k
+ Equity + Bonus
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of progressive experience in Technical Program Management within a high-growth, fast-paced technology company
- 5+ years of leadership experience managing and mentoring teams of TPMs, including experience in organizational design and scaling departments
- Deep Technical Fluency: Hands-on experience with Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, or AI/ML platforms (as applicable to our core stack)
- Strategic Influence: Proven ability to influence senior technical leaders and executive stakeholders without direct authority
- Operational Excellence: Demonstrated experience translating complex business strategies into technical delivery with a focus on metrics and ROI
- Communication Mastery: Exceptional ability to articulate complex technical challenges to non-technical partners and present strategic plans to the Board or Executive team
Desirable
- Advanced Degree: MS or MBA in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
- Scaled Agility: Experience operating in and optimizing scaled Agile/Scrum environments
- External Ecosystems: Experience managing programs with complex external dependencies, vendor integrations, or partner ecosystems
- Industry Context: Prior experience in AI/ML infrastructure or the sustainable energy/tech sector
What the job involves
- As the Senior Director of Technical Program Management, you will be the strategic architect of our technical execution, serving as the vital connective tissue between Product, Engineering, and Business organizations
- You will lead the charge in translating visionary company goals into a cohesive, multi-year technical roadmap, ensuring our engineering delivery is predictable, scalable, and aligned with market demands
- This is a high-impact leadership role where you will build and mentor a world-class TPM organization from the ground up
- If you are a deep technical expert with sharp business acumen and a passion for driving accountability through data-informed decision-making in a fast-paced environment, this role is for you
- Strategic Roadmap Leadership: Partner with Product and Business leadership to translate long-term objectives into actionable technical roadmaps, ensuring clear alignment between engineering output and company strategy
- TPM Org Architecture: Define the vision, strategy, and organizational structure for the TPM function; recruit, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of Technical Program Managers
- Data-Driven Execution: Establish real-time dashboards and KPIs to track engineering health, velocity, and risk, providing executive stakeholders with objective data to drive prioritization
- Capacity & Investment Planning: Own technical resource forecasting to ensure staffing is allocated to the highest-priority initiatives while clearly communicating trade-offs and resource constraints
- Risk & Opportunity Management: Proactively identify technical and organizational risks across the portfolio, designing and leading mitigation strategies in partnership with executive leadership
- Execution Frameworks: Define and evangelize a consistent, scalable, and lightweight TPM framework to achieve predictability and transparency across all engineering squads
- Dependency Governance: Resolve critical cross-organizational dependencies that block major business outcomes, ensuring engineering priorities remain responsive to customer needs
- Executive Communication: Deliver high-fidelity updates to the C-suite regarding program status, strategic challenges, and resource alignment
- Cultural Leadership: Champion a culture of transparency, accountability, and technical excellence across the entire organization
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
31% employee growth in 12 months
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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