Manager of Strategic Initiatives, Crusoe Energy Systems
Innovation
$140.3-170k
+ Bonus & Restricted Stock Units
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
Open for applications
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$140.3-170k
+ Bonus & Restricted Stock Units
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- 5–8 years of experience in management consulting, corporate development, venture capital, or strategy at a high-growth technology or infrastructure company
- Demonstrated experience producing executive-level written deliverables: investment memos, board materials, strategic recommendations with financial backing
- Track record of independently owning complex, multi-stakeholder analytical projects with senior leadership as the audience
- Experience leading cross-functional workstreams — not just contributing to them. You have been the person responsible for driving an initiative across teams with competing priorities
- Comfort operating in ambiguous environments where the scope, process, and answer are not predefined. You have built the path, not just walked it
- Evidence of building productive stakeholder relationships across organizational boundaries, particularly with technical, operational, and commercial teams
- Domain exposure to one or more of the following: data center infrastructure, energy and power markets, AI products and computing
- Ownership Mentality: You take full accountability for your work and your recommendations. When you own an initiative, you own it completely — the analysis, the stakeholder coordination, the recommendation, and the outcome
- Executive Presence: You are credible and composed in front of Directors and VPs. You can hold a room and drive a productive discussion under pressure
- Speed with Rigor: You default to action and produce high-quality work on compressed timelines
- Organizational Fluency: You navigate cross-functional complexity without creating friction. You pull on teams by adding value, not by creating work
- Intellectual Curiosity: You are energized by learning how a data center actually works, how power is traded, or how infrastructure scales
What the job involves
- Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company with a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. We design and build our own data centers, manufacture critical infrastructure components, and operate our cloud platform
- Our unique position — spanning power, manufacturing, infrastructure, compute, and AI services — gives us the ability to move faster and differentiate in ways that horizontally organized competitors cannot
- The Strategy team exists to turn that structural advantage into action. We develop, evaluate, and drive strategic initiatives that align with Crusoe’s mission and compound our differentiation over time
- You will be a Manager on this team, responsible for screening new opportunities, leading in-depth evaluations, and driving cross-functional work to bring the strongest concepts to life
- This is not a support role. You will own initiatives end-to-end, present findings directly to the C-suite, and shape where this company invests its capital and attention
- Turn ambiguity into conviction. Your job is to take emerging market signals, inbound partnership pitches, and early-stage concepts and produce clear, defensible recommendations that the most senior people at Crusoe can act on. You will do this by pulling on domain expertise from business units, R&D, corporate functions, and external experts then synthesizing it into a point of view that enables quality decisions and thoughtful risk management
- You will do this by pulling on domain expertise from business units, R&D, corporate functions, and external experts then synthesizing it into a point of view that enables quality decisions and thoughtful risk management
- This role blends strategic analysis with operational execution. Some opportunities will require deep analytical work; others will require you to lead a cross-functional group to develop a concept, manage workstreams, and test hypotheses. You should be equally comfortable building a financial model and running a kickoff meeting
- Over time, you will develop a thematic specialization based on your background and the evolving needs of the business. Regardless of lane, you will be expected to operate across the full Crusoe stack and maintain fluency in all of it
- Lead initial strategic fit assessments for new opportunities, determining whether they warrant deeper investment of team time and resources
- Produce written recommendations with clear reasoning for advancing or declining opportunities
- Build and maintain the institutional record of evaluated opportunities so that Crusoe learns from every decision
- Own full evaluation cycles for assigned initiatives: market sizing, financial modeling, competitive landscape analysis, risk assessment, and strategic fit
- Lead cross-functional working groups to develop concepts that require input and coordination across multiple business units. Drive the process from early scoping through executive decision and integration
- Produce robust, fact-based whitepapers that stand on their own as decision documents for senior leadership
- Coordinate with executive sponsors and pull structured inputs from teams across the organization without creating deliverable burden on those teams
- Build strong, trust-based relationships across Crusoe’s divisions — engineering, manufacturing, infrastructure, product, energy, finance, and corporate development — so that you know who to ask what question and have the credibility to get high engagement when you do
- Invest in understanding each team’s priorities, constraints, and expertise so that your outreach adds value rather than creating work
- Socialize strategic concepts with Directors and VPs across business units, building organizational context and alignment ahead of executive decisions
- Stay current on market trends, emerging technologies, competitive dynamics, and developments in the AI infrastructure landscape to ensure the team’s evaluations are grounded in the latest context
- Proactively surface opportunities and risks based on your market awareness, not just evaluate what comes inbound
- Drive strategic insights and develop theories of investment (internal and external) by translating Crusoe’s strategy into operational deliverables
- What You Get:
- Direct exposure to C-suite decision-making on Crusoe’s most consequential strategic bets
- A front-row seat to the intersection of AI, energy, and infrastructure at one of the fastest-growing companies in the space
- The intellectual variety of a new strategic challenge every cycle, spanning energy, cloud architecture, partnerships, and competitive strategy
- A team that values ownership and gives you the autonomy to run with your work
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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