Senior Director of People Operations, Crusoe Energy Systems
$235-270k
+ RSUs
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
Posted today
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
1001+ employees
Posted today
$235-270k
+ RSUs
1001+ employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years in People Operations or HR Shared Services, including 7+ years leading teams undergoing accelerated scaling and change
- Experience with proven results in designing, implementing and iterating HR/People workflows and processes, policies and systems to support increasingly large and distributed employee and contractor populations; ideally, organizations sub 2000 employees up to 25,000 people in size
- Demonstrated experience architecting and managing x-functional processes to manage continuous change required of policy, process, systems given evolving needs the company operating model and workforce
- Demonstrated experience partnering with cross functional stakeholders to positively implement change to workflows, processes and policies that impact roles, responsibilities, user interactions with systems etc
- Experience operating shared services processes and infrastructure at scale
- Direct experience with Workday HCM/HRIS and both the system and the operational design that has to happen around it
- Experience with ADP, Ashby, Lattice a plus
- A track record of building service delivery models from the ground up, not just running an existing one
- Proven ability to build trust and drive alignment across a wide range of stakeholders
- Comfort operating across a global, multi-entity structure with varied labor models and compliance requirements
- Strong instincts for when to build process and when process is overhead
- Solid track record of impeccable budget management related to People Operations and infrastructure
- An ability to ruthlessly prioritize, and reprioritize with agility as the moment demands
- A decisive operator who makes calls and moves, rather than waiting for consensus
- A true team player who makes the people around them better without needing the credit
- A readiness to put in the work, energized by the pace of a fast-scaling, builder's role rather than drained by it
What the job involves
- As Senior Director, Global People & Talent Operations, you own the end-to-end employee lifecycle — every hire, transfer, promotion, and exit — across a global, multi-entity workforce, and you own the systems, processes, and data that make those transactions accurate, compliant, and fast.
- You'll set the vision for our people and talent technology architecture, partner closely with People Technology through our Workday go-live and beyond, and build the service delivery model rather than inherit one. You'll also lead the People Operations team, growing its bench strength and capabilities as the company scales
- This is a builder's role. The processes you design will replace the ones we've outgrown, and the standard you set for data integrity will determine what every report, program, and decision downstream can be built on.
- You'll bring an operator's instinct for when process creates leverage and when it creates drag, a bias toward automation and AI over manual repetition, and the judgment to make calls and move
- People & Talent Tech Stack: drive the initial vision and architecture for the holistic people and talent systems and technology landscape in collaboration with all people teams and key stakeholder groups including but not limited to: IT, compliance, finance, accounting, safety and legal. Design and lead process to continuously update the architecture and product roadmap to ensure integration of systems to address key data hygiene, reporting, compliance and user experience needs
- Service delivery: own the end-to-end day to day employee administration lifecycle, from execution of individual transactions (hires, transfers, promotions, terminations) to the operational governance that keeps them accurate and compliant across a global, multi-entity workforce
- Team leadership: lead and grow the People Operations team, building the bench strength and capabilities needed to support the company at scale
- Operational integrity: own data accuracy, audit readiness, and controls across the employee lifecycle, resolving discrepancies at the source so every downstream transaction, report, and system built on that data can be trusted
- Process engineering: own end-to-end process design, SOPs, and RACI documentation for how work actually flows through People Operations, building and rebuilding processes as needed rather than just maintaining what exists
- Workday partnership: serve as the primary People Operations counterpart to the People Technology team through go-live and beyond, translating operational needs into system design decisions and owning the service model that Workday enables
- AI and automation: identify and drive opportunities to apply AI, agentic workflows, and automation across People Operations, partnering with People Analytics and People Technology to turn manual, repeatable work into scaled, intelligent systems
- Cross-functional partnership: act as the connective tissue across Total Rewards, Employee Success, HRBPs, Talent, Legal, Payroll, and Finance, translating their requirements into operational process built around the employee experience, and serving as the operational voice employees experience directly
- Enablement: own the training, knowledge base, resources, and self-service infrastructure that let employees and managers resolve their own needs; and own the training and onboarding that gets the People Operations team itself ramped and effective
- Performance metrics and KPIs: define and own the KPIs that tell us whether People Operations is actually working (case resolution time, transaction accuracy, service delivery against SLAs, employee/manager satisfaction) and use them to drive continuous improvement
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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