Project Manager, Crusoe Energy Systems
Spark
$115-140k
+ equity + RSUs + bonus
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
Job no longer available
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$115-140k
+ equity + RSUs + bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 5+ years of technical project or program management experience supporting data centers, cloud infrastructure, construction, hardware deployments, capacity expansion, or other large-scale technical infrastructure programs
- Project Leadership: Demonstrated ability to own complex, cross-functional projects from planning through execution and operational handoff
- Data Center Knowledge: Strong understanding of data center infrastructure and deployment concepts, including power, cooling, networking, structured cabling, servers, storage, GPU infrastructure, commissioning, and operational readiness
- Capacity Planning & Expansion: Experience coordinating infrastructure expansions within existing environments, including evaluating available space, power, network, and supporting infrastructure required to deploy additional capacity
- Project Planning: Proven experience developing and managing integrated project schedules, milestones, dependencies, critical paths, and delivery forecasts
- Risk Management: Ability to identify risks early, understand downstream impacts, develop mitigation strategies, and drive issues to resolution
- Vendor Management: Experience coordinating contractors, equipment suppliers, integrators, and other external partners against defined scopes and project schedules
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Ability to bring together engineering, operations, construction, procurement, logistics, and business stakeholders to drive decisions and maintain alignment
- Executive Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate complex project and technical information into concise status updates, risks, decisions, and recommendations
- Organization: Exceptional attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple deployments, capacity expansions, workstreams, dependencies, and priorities simultaneously
- Problem-Solving: Comfortable operating in environments where requirements, schedules, and priorities can change quickly. Able to establish structure, drive decisions, and maintain project momentum
- Travel: Ability to travel to Crusoe Spark and data center locations as needed to support planning, execution, and deployment activities
What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Project Manager to lead Crusoe Spark deployments and capacity expansion projects within our Cloud Deployment Operations team
- This role is responsible for driving the end-to-end planning and execution of new Spark infrastructure deployments as well as capacity expansions within existing Crusoe data center environments. Projects will span early planning and site readiness through infrastructure delivery, hardware deployment, validation, and operational handoff
- As the Project Manager, you will serve as the central point of coordination across engineering, construction, site operations, procurement, logistics, vendors, and cloud infrastructure teams. You will own integrated project plans, manage dependencies and critical milestones, identify and mitigate risks, and ensure teams remain aligned to deliver new and expanded capacity safely, efficiently, and on schedule
- This role requires a strong project leader who can manage multiple deployments and capacity expansions in parallel, translate technical dependencies into actionable project plans, and drive cross-functional teams toward clear milestones and customer readiness dates
- End-to-End Deployment Ownership: Lead Crusoe deployment projects from kickoff and planning through site readiness, infrastructure deployment, validation, and operational handoff
- Capacity Expansion Ownership: Lead infrastructure capacity expansion projects within existing Crusoe data centers to support increasing customer and platform demand. Coordinate the addition of compute, GPU, storage, networking, and supporting infrastructure while minimizing impact to existing production environments
- Integrated Project Planning: Build and maintain comprehensive project schedules covering design, construction, procurement, logistics, network readiness, hardware deployment, commissioning, validation, and customer readiness
- Site & Infrastructure Readiness: Coordinate with construction, facilities, engineering, Site Operations, and deployment teams to ensure sites and data halls are ready for new Spark deployments and capacity expansions
- Cross-Functional Coordination: Drive alignment across Cloud Deployment Operations, Digital Infrastructure Group (DIG), Network Engineering, Site Operations, Fleet/SRE, Compute, Storage, Procurement, Logistics, Product, and other supporting organizations
- Dependency & Critical Path Management: Identify cross-functional dependencies and critical-path activities and ensure owners, required dates, and handoffs are clearly established
- Hardware & Infrastructure Readiness: Coordinate procurement, delivery, and readiness of GPUs, servers, networking equipment, storage, cabling, power infrastructure, optics, licenses, and ancillary equipment required for deployments and expansions
- Deployment Sequencing: Coordinate installation and deployment sequencing across data halls and existing production environments to maximize available capacity while minimizing operational risk
- Vendor Management: Coordinate external vendors and partners, ensuring scope, schedules, deliverables, site access, and completion criteria align with overall deployment plans
- Risk & Issue Management: Proactively identify schedule risks, blockers, resource constraints, hardware lead times, infrastructure limitations, and technical dependencies. Drive mitigation plans and escalation paths to protect key milestones
- Milestone & Handoff Management: Provide clear phase milestones and handoff criteria, ensuring effective transitions
- Stakeholder Communication & Project Reporting: Provide clear and consistent project updates covering progress, upcoming milestones, risks, decisions, dependencies, and required actions
- Process Improvement: Contribute to and continuously improve repeatable project management processes, schedules, documentation, reporting, and deployment playbooks that enable Crusoe to deploy and expand infrastructure more efficiently at scale
- Operates as the project owner, driving accountability across teams without requiring direct reporting relationships
- Comfortable managing multiple Spark deployments and capacity expansion projects simultaneously
- Creates structure and clarity in complex, fast-moving environments
- Proactively and consistently communicates risks, decisions, dependencies, and upcoming milestones, fostering strong cross-functional collaboration, alignment, and timely resolution of issues
- Drives meetings toward decisions, owners, and measurable next steps
- Understands when to escalate issues and provides leadership with clear options and recommendations
- Maintains visibility across procurement, infrastructure readiness, deployment, validation, and customer delivery
- Builds strong working relationships across technical, operational, construction, procurement, and business teams
- The Project Manager will:
- Lead multiple Spark deployments and capacity expansion projects from initial planning through operational readiness and handoff
- Maintain integrated project schedules providing clear visibility into design, construction, procurement, infrastructure, deployment, validation, and readiness milestones
- Ensure sites and existing data halls are ready when equipment and deployment teams arrive
- Coordinate compute, GPU, storage, networking, power, cabling, optics, licenses, and ancillary infrastructure required to bring additional capacity online
- Ensure capacity expansions align with customer demand, infrastructure availability, and required customer readiness dates
- Establish clear ownership and accountability for milestones, dependencies, risks, and action items
- Identify schedule threats and long-lead procurement risks early and drive mitigation plans before they impact delivery
- Coordinate work within existing production environments while minimizing operational impact and deployment risk
- Provide leadership with accurate visibility into project health, critical-path activities, risks, and forecasted completion dates
- Drive effective handoffs between construction, infrastructure, deployment, engineering, validation, and operations teams
- Develop repeatable processes and lessons learned that improve the speed and predictability of future Spark deployments and capacity expansions
- Help Crusoe scale infrastructure capacity to meet customer and business demand while maintaining strong execution, communication, and operational discipline
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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