Employee Relations Manager, Crusoe Energy Systems
$110-135k
Offers bonus and RSU
5 days a week in office
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
Be an early applicant
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$110-135k
Offers bonus and RSU
5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- HR/ER Experience: 3–5 years of HR generalist or employee relations experience, with exposure to investigations, performance management, and employee-facing advisory work
- Fast-Moving Environments (Bonus): Experience in a scaling or high-growth company is a plus
- Employment Law Knowledge: Solid working knowledge of federal employment law; familiarity with Colorado labor law preferred. Deep California law expertise is not required for this role
- Communication & Interpersonal Skills: Strong written and verbal communication; able to navigate difficult conversations with discretion and empathy
- Travel: Willingness to travel periodically as needed (up to ~10–15%)
- Location: Must be based in Denver, CO
What the job involves
- We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services
- If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe
- As an Employee Relations Manager, you will support workplace concerns, conflict resolution, and internal investigations across the company. You bring strong listening skills, sound judgment, and a people-first approach to resolving issues, with a practical, grounded sensibility rather than reliance on rigid process
- You'll work closely with senior People team members and Legal as you build your ER expertise in a fast-moving environment
- This is a fully onsite position, requiring five days a week at our Denver, CO office
- Support Investigations: Assist with and conduct internal investigations involving workplace complaints or concerns. Ensure documentation is accurate, handling is fair, and cases are moving on a timely basis — with guidance available for complex matters
- Handle Sensitive Situations: Serve as a responsive, discreet point of contact for employees and managers dealing with sensitive or emotionally charged situations
- Support Cross-Functional Partners: Help protect the bandwidth of Employee Success Partners by handling day-to-day ER cases so they can stay focused on strategic work
- Policy Consistency: Partner with Legal, Compliance, and People Operations to apply workplace policies fairly and consistently. Help track cases to support consistent outcomes over time
- Manager Support: Act as a sounding board for managers navigating tough employee situations, performance concerns, and policy questions — escalating to senior partners when needed
- Employment Law Application: Apply working knowledge of federal employment law and Colorado-specific requirements in day-to-day ER work. Seek guidance on complex legal questions
- Training Participation: Support the delivery of manager training on conflict resolution, documentation practices, and early ER risk identification
- Risk Awareness: Stay attuned to workplace dynamics and flag early signs of morale issues or cultural concerns to senior team members
- Employment Law Foundation: Working knowledge of federal employment law and Colorado labor regulations, with a willingness to deepen expertise over time
- Relationship Builder: A genuine listener who builds trust quickly and reads interpersonal dynamics with care
- Pragmatic Problem Solver: Comfortable navigating ambiguous or sensitive situations with good judgment, even without a step-by-step playbook
- Emotional Intelligence: Calm and composed when handling stressful or emotionally charged employee situations
- Organized & Detail-Oriented: Keeps cases moving, meets deadlines, and maintains clean documentation
- Own Corporate ER Strategy: Senior team members lead long-term ER planning and trend analysis; you'll contribute data and observations to support that work
- Own General HR Compliance: People Operations owns handbook documentation, operational workflows outside ER, and core compliance tracking
- Run Other HR Functions: This role does not own org design, talent development, payroll, benefits, or immigration
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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