Director, Energy Innovation and Commercialization

Crusoe's mission is to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. We’re crafting the engine that powers a world where people can create ambitiously with AI — without sacrificing scale, speed, or sustainability.

Be a part of the AI revolution with sustainable technology at Crusoe. Here, you'll drive meaningful innovation, make a tangible impact, and join a team that’s setting the pace for responsible, transformative cloud infrastructure.

About the Role:

The Director, Energy Innovation and Commercialization will create strategic advantage for Crusoe by scouting, vetting and adopting new technologies and techniques to generate or access electricity for AI computing infrastructure. This position will create and drive an incubation engine that converts new technology into scalable deployment and durable strategic advantage for Crusoe. The Senior Director role is designed to put Crusoe at the forefront of energy-first AI infrastructure development by turning frontier energy technologies and market mechanisms into real, deployable electrical power that is contractable, financeable, and deliverable on schedule and with bounded risk.

You will work directly with the Chief Strategy Officer in an environment of high intensity and requiring high trust. This is not a research-only role. This is not a deals-only role. It is a multidisciplinary role that spans strategy, technical vetting and incubation, market evaluation, public affairs influence, and venture capital-style commercial thinking across frontier technologies and early stage teams.

The ideal candidate is a commercially-minded engineer with the ability to evaluate energy technologies on the basis of design, operations, economics and strategic value. Candidates must display compelling interpersonal skills and a capability to build relationships, develop partnerships, persuade and drive negotiations. The role requires strong leadership, communication and presentation skills. Candidates must possess extremely strong critical thinking and problem solving skills, a high degree of agency, a bias towards action, comfort operating independently, and an ability to think creatively about evolving markets, technologies and competitive dynamics.

The ideal candidate wants an environment defined by extremely hard work, high ambiguity, high impact, and real-world constraints. Expect late nights, weekends, heavy cross-functional coordination, and significant travel. Candidates should bring elite skills in technical analysis, communicating complex concepts simply, stakeholder influence, and commercial judgment. The role requires a strong grasp of power markets, energy project development, and what it means to have power that is financeable with bounded risk. Technical depth is important.

This position offers exposure to the most influential participants in industry and government around the world across energy, infrastructure, capital markets, technology, and policy. The Director will shape the future of how the Artificial Intelligence industry is powered, and will leverage Crusoe’s many billions of dollars of purchasing power to advance new energy solutions to the forefront of the AI industrial revolution. This role has the ability to change the world in the case of success.

What You'll Be Working On:

• Building and maintaining a Crusoe-specific market map of energy technologies, market structures, and regulatory pathways that can unlock speed and advantage

• Sourcing and conducting due diligence of opportunities aligned to Crusoe’s power and infrastructure roadmap, including shadowing strategic finance partners’ deal pipeline meetings

• Converting frontier insights into actionable bets with clear diligence plans, decision memos, pilot project designs, and scale pathways

• Incubating technologies and partnerships from concept to deployable projects

• Partnering with Crusoe’s commercial, operational and legal teams to structure and negotiate agreements that create long-term strategic advantages for Crusoe

• Driving cross-functional projects across engineering, business development, finance, legal, data center execution, and public affairs

• Creating energy technology-focused partnerships with academic institutions, government labs or similar research institutions

• Publishing high-signal thought leadership pieces that reinforce Crusoe’s positioning as a market leader

What You'll Bring to the Team:

• Position Crusoe at the forefront of energy-first AI infrastructure development

  • Define and continuously refine Crusoe’s energy innovation and commercialization thesis tied to the company’s compute roadmap and siting strategies

  • Translate strategy into execution by establish