Senior Director of Recruiting, Crusoe Energy Systems
G&A, & Manufacturing
$225-265k
+ RSUs + Bonus
Crusoe offers sponsorship
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
Posted today
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
501-1000 employees
Posted today
$225-265k
+ RSUs + Bonus
Crusoe offers sponsorship
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- An operator first. You've built and scaled recruiting functions in high-growth environments. You know what good looks like, and you know how to get there without perfect resources or infinite time
- Energized by pace and complexity. Ambiguity doesn't slow you down—it sharpens your focus. You thrive when priorities shift, constraints appear, and the only option is to move forward with clarity and conviction
- A systems thinker with an execution edge. You can zoom out to design scalable processes and zoom in to unblock a critical hire. You balance long-term infrastructure with short-term urgency
- Deeply accountable. You own outcomes, not just activities. You measure success by whether the right people are in seats, on time, and set up to succeed
- A talent for talent. You understand what makes great recruiters great, and you know how to build, coach, and elevate a team to operate at the highest level
- Comfortable operating in a high-performance culture. You value urgency, clarity, and measurable impact. You hold yourself and your team to high standards and push for continuous improvement
What the job involves
- We're at an inflection point
- The foundation is laid, but we're building the airplane while flying it—and the recruiting function needs to match that intensity
- This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who thrives in the messy middle of scale: where you're simultaneously hiring at pace, tightening systems on the fly, and building the infrastructure that will carry us through the next phase of growth
- You'll own recruiting across G&A, Manufacturing, and Go-to-Market, driving both immediate outcomes and the operational rigor required to sustain them
- The dual mandate is clear: deliver the talent we need to fuel aggressive growth today, while architecting the systems, processes, and capabilities that transform us into a world-class recruiting machine tomorrow
- You'll need to think in two timeframes at once—solving for this quarter's hiring goals while laying the groundwork for a scalable, resilient function that can support 2x, 3x, 5x growth without breaking
- We need a builder-operator: someone who doesn't wait for perfect clarity, who moves fast without breaking things, and who brings both strategic vision and a roll-up-your-sleeves mentality
- You'll be energized by pace, accountability, and the chance to shape how a rapidly scaling company attracts and closes talent—not just for the next six months, but for the next several years
- This role is for someone who sees recruiting as a competitive advantage—not a service function, but a strategic capability directly tied to execution, growth, and operational reliability
- You'll have the autonomy to make bold bets on process, technology, and team design that position us to scale without sacrificing quality or speed
- Drive hiring outcomes and recruiting strategy across three critical pillars:
- Lead talent acquisition for Corporate/G&A, Manufacturing, and GTM teams, aligning hiring roadmaps with business priorities, growth plans, and operational realities
- Build and scale a high-performing recruiting team that operates with urgency, judgment, and excellence—setting the standard for responsiveness and execution quality
- Act as a strategic advisor to executives and hiring leaders, driving role clarity, calibration, and shared accountability for getting the right people in the right seats
- Build scalable systems without losing speed:
- Evolve our recruiting model to balance velocity with consistency—moving from reactive firefighting to proactive, predictable hiring execution
- Strengthen intake, workflow, and decision-making processes that eliminate bottlenecks and improve stakeholder and candidate experience
- Aggressively adopt AI, automation, and modern recruitment tools to increase efficiency, improve signal quality, and free your team to focus on high-judgment work
- Anticipate constraints and solve problems before they become crises:
- Translate business demand into structured hiring plans, proactively identifying talent gaps, timing risks, and capacity constraints before they slow us down
- Navigate the unique challenges of high-volume manufacturing hiring alongside specialized, operationally critical roles—balancing speed with rigor
- Use data and analytics to diagnose funnel performance, forecast risks, and drive continuous improvement across every stage of the recruiting cycle
- Elevate the experience across the board:
- Ensure every hiring manager, candidate, and team member experiences recruiting as world-class: clear, responsive, fair, and reflective of our standards
- Lead with a bias for action and ownership—removing obstacles, solving problems, and driving outcomes without unnecessary escalation
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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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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