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CrusoeCrusoeDenver, CO

Director, Energy Innovation and Commercialization

Leads scouting, vetting, and commercialization of frontier energy technologies to power AI infrastructure. Drives incubation from concept to scalable deployment, including technoeconomic modeling, partnerships, pilots, and cross-functional execution with high agency in ambiguous environments.

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About the role

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 establishing clear priorities, decision criteria, and “kill/scale” gates
  • Produce board- and exec-ready materials that drive decision velocity
  • Map the frontier of energy technologies and develop campus-level technoeconomic models incorporating future technologies
  • Maintain an active view across generation, storage, fuels, grid-edge solutions, interconnection enablers, and enabling software
  • Evaluate options with execution realism: technological feasibility, supply chain, permitting, safety, operability, reliability, cost, timeline, and bankability
  • Build a living “Frontier Map” and keep it operationally relevant to Crusoe’s near-term and medium-term project pipeline
  • Develop campus-level technoeconomic models to stress-test future generation designs across technologies, electrical architecture, and build-out timing. The model will translate design choices into $/kW-month, delivered $/MWh, uptime risk, and time-to-energize
  • Incubate and de-risk new technologies into deployable pathways
  • Stand up a repeatable incubation motion: source → diligence → partner → pilot → scale or terminate
  • Design pilots tied to real sites and real constraints, with measurable outcomes and clear ownership
  • Build partner ecosystems across developers, OEMs, EPCs, utilities, ISOs/RTOs, financiers, and key suppliers
  • Recommend build vs. buy vs. partner vs. invest with clear rationale and quantified tradeoffs
  • Drive deal flow for Crusoe’s Corporate Development team
  • Source early-stage opportunities aligned to Crusoe’s roadmap and competitive advantage
  • Join Crusoe’s strategic finance partners’ (VCs, etc.) to vet their deal pipelines for possible fit with Crusoe
  • Lead diligence across technical, market, regulatory, and commercial dimensions
  • Produce investment memos and recommendations; support term negotiation alongside legal and the investment committee

Skills

Technoeconomic ModelingPower MarketsEnergy Project DevelopmentDue DiligencePilot ProjectsStrategic FinanceVc EvaluationRegulatory AnalysisCommercial NegotiationThought Leadership

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