# Director, Energy Innovation and Commercialization

**Company:** [Crusoe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/crusoe)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Other
**Skills:** Technoeconomic Modeling, Power Markets, Energy Project Development, Due Diligence, Pilot Project Design, Negotiation, Technological Feasibility Analysis, Supply Chain Evaluation, Regulatory Analysis, Corporate Development
**Posted:** 2026-02-10

> Leads energy innovation and commercialization by scouting, vetting, incubating frontier technologies into deployable, financeable power solutions for AI data centers. Drives strategy, pilots, partnerships, and cross-functional execution with deep technical and commercial expertise in power markets.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Create and drive an incubation engine for new energy technologies, converting them into scalable deployments for AI infrastructure power.
- Scout, vet, and adopt frontier energy technologies and market mechanisms to generate contractable, financeable electricity.
- Build and maintain a Crusoe-specific market map of energy technologies, market structures, and regulatory pathways.
- Source opportunities, conduct due diligence, and develop actionable bets with diligence plans, pilot designs, and scale pathways.
- Incubate technologies from concept to deployable projects, including pilot projects with modular data centers.
- Structure and negotiate agreements with commercial, operational, and legal teams for long-term advantages.
- Drive cross-functional projects across engineering, business development, finance, legal, data centers, and public affairs.
- Create partnerships with academic institutions, government labs, and research entities.
- Publish thought leadership to position Crusoe as a market leader in energy innovation for AI.

## Requirements

- Commercially-minded engineer able to evaluate energy technologies on design, operations, economics, and strategic value.
- Strong grasp of power markets, energy project development, and financeable power with bounded risk.
- Elite technical analysis skills, including technoeconomic models for generation, storage, fuels, grid-edge solutions ($/kW-month, $/MWh, uptime risk).
- Compelling interpersonal skills to build relationships, partnerships, persuade, and drive negotiations.
- Strong leadership, communication, presentation, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
- High agency, bias towards action, comfort in ambiguity, independent operation, and creative thinking on markets/technologies.
- Experience in strategy execution, defining priorities, decision criteria, and kill/scale gates.
- Ability to produce board/exec-ready materials and drive decision velocity.
- Lead diligence (technical, market, regulatory, commercial) and produce investment memos.

## Nice-to-Haves

- Experience in venture capital-style commercial thinking, deal flow sourcing, and corporate development.
- Partnerships with developers, OEMs, EPCs, utilities, ISOs/RTOs, financiers, and suppliers.
- Thought leadership in energy innovation for AI infrastructure.

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