Director, Energy Innovation and Commercialization

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...