Senior Staff Technical Program Manager, Crusoe Energy Systems
$216.2-262k
+ Bonus and RSUs
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
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Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$216.2-262k
+ Bonus and RSUs
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is a deeply technical, strategically influential leader who has operated at VP/SVP level at a hyperscaler or neocloud, shaped how engineering organizations deliver infrastructure programs, and brings a portfolio-level perspective to every decision
- Portfolio-Level Technical Fluency: Current, accurate mental model of the AI IaaS and Managed Services stack across all active programs — GPU SKU generations, firmware lifecycle states, SDN and storage architecture, cluster topology, and the commissioning maturity of each active deployment. Understands how technical decisions at the infrastructure layer cascade into customer SLA commitments and revenue impact
- GPU Generation Expertise: Has personally owned the introduction of a new GPU generation or equivalent large-scale platform transition at a hyperscaler or neocloud — spanning vendor relationships, architectural updates, cloud foundations work, and first customer delivery at scale
- Experience at Hyperscalers or Neoclouds: 12–18 years of experience as a Technical Program Manager, with significant tenure in senior IC roles at hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, Google, Meta, OCI) or neoclouds (CoreWeave, Lambda Labs). Must have operated at the VP/SVP stakeholder level and shaped how engineering organizations execute infrastructure programs — not just driven individual programs
- NPI Framework Design: Has defined or significantly evolved NPI engagement models, commissioning gate frameworks, or program execution standards adopted across a large engineering organization. Brings opinions about what's broken in how hyperscalers run GPU NPI and what a better model looks like
- AI Tool Leadership: Defines how AI fundamentally changes the TPM craft — not just personal tooling adoption but how AI reshapes risk detection, program tracking, executive communication, and the skills required across the TPM team
- Strategic Influence: Proven ability to shape VP/SVP-level investment decisions, frame infrastructure tradeoffs in business terms, and drive alignment across organizational boundaries without formal authority
- Executive Communication: Exceptional ability to synthesize complex, multi-program technical realities into crisp, decision-ready executive narratives. Delivers updates that surface the right decision elements without requiring follow-up
Desirable
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
- Engineering background — hardware engineering, systems engineering, silicon validation, or firmware — that provides genuine below-the-OS technical credibility
- Experience introducing a new chip vendor or GPU generation at fleet scale
- Experience building TPM organizations or functions from early stage at a hyperscaler or hyper-growth company
What the job involves
- Crusoe's Cloud Product team is hiring a Senior Staff Technical Program Manager — a recognized technical and programmatic authority who owns outcomes across a portfolio of Crusoe's most strategically significant programs
- This role requires a player-coach: personally hands-on when it matters, and equally effective at shaping how the TPM function operates, elevating other TPMs, and driving the organization from reactive to predictable across the full program portfolio
- The Senior Staff TPM shapes how programs get executed at Crusoe — not just executing within existing frameworks but defining and evolving those frameworks as the company scales
- Portfolio-Level Program Ownership: Own a series of IaaS products or a defined section of the product portfolio — managing sequencing, resource allocation, and cross-product dependencies across multiple simultaneous releases. Ensure coherence across the portfolio, not just delivery of individual programs
- GPU Generation Ownership: Own the introduction of a new GPU generation — spanning multiple SKUs, architectural transitions affecting networking, storage, and cloud foundations, and the operational and commercial readiness required to serve customers reliably at scale. Manage compounding dependencies between new-generation NPI work and active production deployment programs running in parallel
- Highly Cross-Functional Program Leadership: Drive company-level cross-functional programs — proactively identifying the highest-risk areas before they become visible to leadership, helping teams design mitigation plans ahead of issues, and maintaining forward-looking situational awareness across organizational boundaries
- NPI Framework Evolution: Define and evolve the commissioning gate framework and NPI/NTI engagement model as Crusoe's deployment scale and product complexity grow. Anticipate specialist pool conflicts between NPI programs and active production deployments
- Capacity & Investment Planning: Own portfolio-level capacity planning — TPM bandwidth allocation, specialist pool management, escalation paths, and operating cadences (MBRs, QBRs, OKRs). Ensure high-priority programs are adequately resourced before they become critical path risks
- Coaching & Elevation: Mentor and develop Staff and Senior TPMs. Raise the technical depth and execution standard across the TPM function. Define what good looks like and build toward it systematically
- AI-Native Program Leadership: Set the standard for AI tool integration across the TPM team — identifying where AI materially changes program tracking, risk detection, and executive communication, and driving adoption across the organization
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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