--- title: 'Senior Manager, Finance - Manufacturing at Crusoe' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-manager-finance-manufacturing-crusoe-denver-206g1rtve37s' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-18' --- # Senior Manager, Finance - Manufacturing at Crusoe - **Company:** [Crusoe](https://feeny.ai/companies/crusoe) - **Location:** Denver, CO / United States - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-09-17 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-18 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/crusoe/9ebd554e-1b99-4870-9ac2-a0f011a43f6d ## Job description Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads. When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster. We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck. We're solving that — with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI. We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services. If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe. About the Role: Join Crusoe's Finance team as an embedded strategic and operational partner to Manufacturing leadership. This role reports into the Director of Finance, Manufacturing. You will design new processes from the ground up to meet the changing needs of a fast-growing organization, improve existing ones, and bring a financial lens to business decision making. Your work will directly shape the financial trajectory of the business unit and its long-term success. You will work cross-functionally with the Manufacturing org, R&D, Accounting, Data Center, and Cloud teams, acting as a co-pilot in steering the business toward its financial goals. This is a builder role. We are looking for someone who can operate at the ground level and as a strategic leader across multiple stakeholders to drive decisions. This role is based in our Denver office, with at least two days per week spent at our manufacturing locations in Arvada and Brighton. Some light travel is required. What You'll Be Working On: - Planning & Forecasting: Own end-to-end financial planning cycles for the manufacturing business line, including the annual budget, long-range plan (LRP), monthly rolling forecasts, and month- and quarter-end close support. - Executive Reporting: Build clear, actionable performance narratives for executive, board, and investor materials. - Strategic Financial Modeling: Build and scale complex financial models to support the commercialization and roll-out of Crusoe Spark™ modular AI factories. - Business Partnership: Act as the primary financial advisor and hands-on "on-the-floor" partner to Manufacturing leadership, providing data-driven insights on strategic and operational decisions, and translating those decisions into near- and long-term financial impact. - Scenario Analysis: Deliver robust modeling and scenario analysis for new initiatives, capacity planning, customer profitability, and market expansion. - Driver-Based Analysis: Translate operational drivers such as production efficiency, utilization, and operational uptime into P&L impacts and actionable recommendations. - Cost Accounting & Product Costing: Partner with corporate accounting to establish standard costing frameworks, manage inventory valuation, track variances, monitor excess and obsolete (E&O) risk, and deliver insights on cost drivers to support margin management and investment decisions. - Profitability & Efficiency Initiatives: Proactively identify risks and opportunities to improve margins and operational efficiency, partnering with operational teams to develop improvement plans. - Process Improvement: Design new processes required by business growth and improve existing ones in close collaboration with Accounting, Corporate Finance, and Manufacturing teams. - Process & Control Integrity: Ensure compliance with corporate policies, internal controls, and audit requirements. What You'll Bring to the Team: - Strong manufacturing finance background with working knowledge of cost accounting. - 8+ years of progressive finance experience, including at least 3 years supporting a business unit P&L. - Capital budgeting and resource planning experience. - Advanced financial modeling skills, with the ability to build driver-based models, sensitivity analyses, and complex operational scenarios from the ground up. - Strong business acumen. You connect financial analysis to operational and strategic levers, look around corners, and translate risks and opportunities into financial impact. - Demonstrated ability to translate complex operational data into clear financial insights and executive-ready narratives. - Proven track record of working with and influencing senior stakeholders across multiple functions. - Proactive and self-driven, and comfortable thriving in a fast-paced, high-intensity environment while managing multiple priorities. You don't wait to be asked. You identify problems, instinctively seek solutions, and take ownership of outcomes. - Excellent Excel and PowerPoint skills, plus experience with ERP systems (e.g., Acumatica, Oracle, SAP) and financial planning or BI tools. - Strong communication skills and the ability to build effective relationships with project management and technical teams, translating project-specific updates into financial impact analysis. - Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related analytical field, or equivalent practical experience. MBA, CFA, or CPA a plus. - Experience in a high-growth technology, infrastructure, energy, or data center environment strongly preferred. Benefits: - Competitive compensation and equity packages - Restricted Stock Units - Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs - Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance - Employer contributions to HSA account - Paid parental leave - Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability - Professional development & tuition reimbursement - Mental health & wellness support - Commuter benefits (parking & transit) - Cell phone stipend - 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary - Volunteer time off - Global travel insurance & emergency assistance - Daily meals allowance - Additional perks & programs specific to location ## Compensation Range Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $170,000 to $205,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant's knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data. Crusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation. ## About Crusoe ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Crusoe is an energy-first AI infrastructure company that designs, builds, and operates hyperscale data centers and a cloud platform purpose-built for artificial intelligence workloads. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series E) - **Headquarters**: Denver, Colorado, USA - **Founded**: 2018 - **Founders**: Chase Lochmiller and Cully Cavness ## Core Business - Primary industry/industries: AI Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Clean Energy - Target customers: Enterprise AI companies, AI-native startups, research institutions, government agencies (B2B) - **Mission**: "Accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence." ## Products & Services - **Crusoe Cloud**: An AI-optimized cloud platform purpose-built for AI workloads, featuring high-performance NVIDIA and AMD compute, accelerated storage, and optimized RDMA networking. Claims to deploy models up to 20x faster and cut costs by up to 81%. - **Crusoe Managed Inference**: A managed AI inference service built with Crusoe's proprietary MemoryAlloy technology, offering best-in-class speed, throughput, and reliability. Features the Crusoe Intelligence Foundry for model selection and API key management. - **AI Data Center Infrastructure**: Vertically integrated design, build, and operation of hyperscale AI factories (e.g., the 1.2 GW Stargate campus in Abilene, TX). Modular, scalable construction for power-hungry AI workloads. - **Crusoe Managed Kubernetes & Slurm**: Managed orchestration services that eliminate operational overhead for customers. - **Crusoe AutoClusters**: Fault-tolerant, managed cluster services for large-scale AI training. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company). - **Key Metric**: Raised over $1.8B+ in total funding (Series E in 2024 was $1B+; Series D in 2024 was $600M; Series C in 2021 was $350M). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: NVIDIA, NYDIG, GE Vernova, Redwood Materials, Tallgrass, AMD. The company has also partnered with leading energy and technology firms to power its data centers. - **Growth Signals**: Divested bitcoin mining business to NYDIG in 2023 to focus exclusively on AI infrastructure; broke ground on the 1.2 GW Stargate campus in Abilene, TX; expanded into Europe with a geothermal/hydro-powered deployment in Iceland; announced 1.8 GW Wyoming data center with Tallgrass; acquired GPU memory optimization startup Atero and established a Tel Aviv office. ## Competitive Advantages - **Energy-First Approach**: The company’s core differentiator is its vertical integration starting from energy sourcing. It uses "environmentally aligned power sources" (wind, solar, hydropower, geothermal, natural gas with carbon capture) to power its AI factories, including pioneering technology to convert wasted natural gas into energy. - **Vertical Integration**: Controls the entire stack—from finding innovative energy sources to building and managing hyperscale data centers and operating the cloud platform. - **NVIDIA Partnership**: Close partnership with NVIDIA, providing access to the latest and highest-performance GPU hardware for its cloud and infrastructure. - **Proven Performance**: Claims 99.98% uptime, 100% customer satisfaction score, and significant cost/performance advantages (up to 81% cost reduction). ## Strategic Focus - **Massive Infrastructure Expansion**: Aggressively scaling its data center footprint, with major projects in Abilene, Texas (Stargate) and Wyoming (Tallgrass), and expansion into Europe. - **Deepening AI Cloud**: Continuing to build out its Crusoe Cloud platform with managed services (Kubernetes, Slurm, AutoClusters) to make it easier for AI companies to use their infrastructure. - **Responsible AI**: Emphasizing sustainability and responsible AI governance, as evidenced by achieving ISO 42001 certification and publishing an ESG report. - **Acquisition-led Growth**: Acquired Atero (GPU memory optimization) to enhance its core technology stack. ## Why Work Here - **Mission-Driven**: The company is united by a tangible mission: "Accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence." Employees report high levels of engagement (92% proud to work there per internal survey). - **Massive Growth Trajectory**: Crusoe is at the center of the AI infrastructure boom, building some of the world's most powerful AI factories. For job seekers, this means exposure to cutting-edge technology and the opportunity to scale a company from a startup to an industry leader. - **Culture**: The company values "moving fast and making things," continuous learning, and collective genius. It describes itself as an "AI factory company" that values velocity and impact. - **Work Policy**: Hybrid/Office presence required in most roles. Office locations include: Denver (HQ), San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Bellevue, Tulsa, Dublin (Ireland), and Tel Aviv (Israel). - **Benefits**: Competitive compensation & equity, comprehensive health & wellness, mental health resources, retirement plans, paid time off, leave of absence programs, learning & development, volunteer time off, daily meals allowance, and other location-specific perks. - **Engineering Culture**: Strong emphasis on technical excellence, working with large-scale systems, and pioneering new approaches to energy and infrastructure. The company values candidates' "AI fluency" in its hiring process. ## Sources 1. [crusoe.ai](https://www.crusoe.ai/) 2. [crusoe.ai/careers](https://www.crusoe.ai/about/careers) 3. [crusoe.ai/about/culture](https://www.crusoe.ai/about/careers/culture) 4. 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