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# Senior Manager, Utility Contracts at Crusoe

- **Company:** [Crusoe](https://feeny.ai/companies/crusoe)
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA / United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/crusoe/7360f5f7-1ca0-4ff6-a504-d45792376725

## 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 This Role:

As Senior Manager, Utility Contracts, you will sit within the Energy Development Group (EDG) and own the full lifecycle of Crusoe's utility infrastructure agreements: negotiating new agreements and amendments with serving utilities, and managing the obligations under executed agreements across our data center portfolio. You will be the person who knows every deadline, every deliverable, and every counterparty commitment. You will work hand-in-hand with our real estate, power engineering, legal, and finance teams, and help shape the obligation-management platform we are building to scale this function across every future project.

This is a role for someone who has lived inside the utility world - who reads tariffs and connection requirements fluently, understands how utilities think about interconnection, cost recovery, and reliability obligations, and can lead negotiations with utility commercial and legal teams. What You’ll Be Working On:

- Utility Agreement Negotiation: Lead the negotiation of utility infrastructure agreements for new and existing data center campuses - construction agreements, operating agreements, transfer agreements, and amendments - in coordination with EDG commercial leads, outside counsel, and utility counterparties.
- Obligation Management: Own the responsibility matrix for each project's agreement stack: every obligation tracked with its contractual cite, deadline, owner, and status. Run the monthly deadline review, drive early escalation of at-risk items, and make sure recurring obligations (reports, forecasts, certifications, payments) never slip.
- Utility Requirements & Compliance: Serve as EDG's authority on utility requirements - tariff provisions, end-user connection requirements, metering and interconnection specifications, Good Utility Practice, and NERC / RTO reliability obligations for large loads (load ride-through, UFLS, emergency operations, ramp rates) and translate them into actionable requirements for our engineering and operations teams.
- Construction agreements: Manage the contractual side of customer-build programs - design package submittals, procurement compliance against utility approved lists, commissioning and title transfer sequencing, easement and land-rights deliverables, and closeout obligations with enough EPC fluency to engage credibly with project and construction teams.
- Cross-Functional Coordination: Act as the connective tissue between EDG, Real Estate, Power Engineering, Legal, Finance, and our data center tenants on everything touching the utility agreements - from milestone payments and collateral postings to easement deliveries and operating protocols.
- Executive Reporting: Provide leadership with clear, current visibility into obligation status, upcoming deadlines, counterparty performance, and contract risks across the portfolio.

## What You'll Bring to the Team

- Deep Utility Experience: 8+ years in the electric utility sector, at a utility, or negotiating and managing utility agreements on behalf of large customers or developers - with direct experience in large-load interconnection, energy service / electric service agreements, and utility construction agreements.
- Utility Requirements Fluency: Strong working command of utility tariffs, end-user connection requirements, interconnection processes, metering standards, and reliability obligations (NERC standards, RTO/ISO requirements such as MISO, ERCOT, or CAISO large-load rules). You know how utilities operate, what they will and won't agree to, and why.
- EPC Exposure: Hands-on familiarity with the engineering, procurement, and construction lifecycle - design reviews, procurement standards, commissioning, and project closeout - sufficient to manage customer-build and transfer obligations credibly alongside project teams.
- Negotiation Track Record: Demonstrated success negotiating complex infrastructure agreements with utility counterparties, balancing commercial outcomes, schedule protection, and long-term relationships.
- Contract Management Rigor: Exceptional organization and attention to detail. You are the person who reads the footnotes, catches the cross-reference, and builds the system so nothing depends on memory.
- Cross-Functional Communication: Ability to translate contract language into clear actions for engineers, real estate teams, finance, and executives - and to communicate credibly with utility commercial, legal, and operations staff.
- Location: Based in, or willing to relocate to, Dallas, TX or San Francisco, CA.

Bonus Points:

- Experience supporting hyperscale data center, large industrial, or other large-load development projects.
- Familiarity with behind-the-meter / bring-your-own-capacity structures, customer-build lead lines, or asset transfer agreements with utilities.
- Experience implementing contract lifecycle management or obligation-tracking tools.
- Utility regulatory exposure (state commission proceedings, tariff filings)

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 $155,000 - $185,000+ Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicants 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. [crusoe.ai/about/company](https://www.crusoe.ai/about/company)

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