# Director, Energy Innovation and Commercialization

**Company:** [Crusoe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/crusoe)
**Location:** Denver, CO
**Role:** Other
**Skills:** Technoeconomic Modeling, Power Markets, Energy Project Development, Due Diligence, Pilot Projects, Strategic Finance, Vc Evaluation, Regulatory Analysis, Commercial Negotiation, Thought Leadership
**Posted:** 2026-01-21

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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