Senior Manager of Technical Recruiting, Crusoe Energy Systems
$175-215k
+RSUs and Bonus
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
Posted today
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
1001+ employees
Posted today
$175-215k
+RSUs and Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of technical recruiting experience, including 4+ years leading recruiting leaders/managers (not just individual recruiters) in a high-growth tech environment
- Demonstrated success building and scaling a recruiting org through a period of hypergrowth, IPO prep, or major expansion
- Strong track record advising executive leadership on complex, org-wide hiring and workforce planning strategy
- Deep fluency in recruiting data — able to translate metrics into business narrative for senior audiences
- Expert-level knowledge of ATS platforms, sourcing technology, and AI-enabled recruiting tools
- Exceptional executive presence and communication skills; comfortable presenting to and influencing C-suite stakeholders
- Proven ability to build and lead multi-layered recruiting teams (managers + ICs) in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
Desirable
- Experience recruiting for infrastructure, cloud computing, AI/ML, hardware, manufacturing, or data center organizations
- Experience partnering with People Analytics or Talent Intelligence functions to build predictive hiring models
- History of building enablement programs or recruiting playbooks adopted at the org-wide level
What the job involves
- As Senior Manager, Technical Recruiting, you will own and scale Crusoe's technical recruiting function during one of the most pivotal growth periods in the company's history
- Reporting to the Director of Technical Talent Acquisition, you'll set the strategic direction for how Crusoe attracts, engages, and hires top technical talent across Engineering, Infrastructure, AI, Hardware, and Product organizations
- This is a senior leadership role requiring both strategic ownership and hands-on execution
- You'll build and lead a high-performing team of managers, recruiters, and sourcers; partner directly with executive leadership on org-wide workforce planning; and drive the systems, data, and processes that allow Crusoe to scale hiring efficiently without compromising talent quality
- You'll operate as a key strategic partner to Recruiting Operations, Talent Intelligence, and Senior Business Leaders — building a recruiting organization known for both exceptional candidate experience and consistent rigor in hiring high-quality talent
- Set and drive the overall technical recruiting strategy across multiple business units, aligned to company-wide growth and workforce planning goals
- Build, lead, and scale a team of Recruiters, and Sourcers — instilling a culture of accountability, coaching, and continuous development
- Serve as a trusted advisor to Director+ and VP level stakeholders on hiring strategy, org design, and talent forecasting
- Own recruiting performance across technical orgs, translating pipeline health, forecast accuracy, and recruiter productivity into actionable business insights
- Lead adoption of AI and automation in recruiting workflows to increase efficiency without sacrificing candidate quality
- Champion structured, inclusive interviewing practices company-wide
- Represent Talent Acquisition in hiring strategy conversations, bringing market data and talent intelligence to inform business decisions
- Develop scalable playbooks, interview training, and enablement programs that raise consistency and quality across the entire recruiting org
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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