Senior Sales Director at Crusoe (San Francisco, CA / United States)
Crusoe· San Francisco, CA / United States· $420k–$500k·
Role details
Competitive Compensation · Restricted Stock Units · Paid Time Off & Paid Holidays · 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
Crusoe at a glance
Energy-first AI infrastructure company that sources power, builds hyperscale AI data centers, and runs a GPU cloud purpose-built for AI workloads.
Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company. It finds and secures power, builds and operates hyperscale AI data centers, and offers a cloud platform purpose-built for AI training and inference, spanning the stack "from electrons to tokens."
~$3.9B raised · latest: Series E · $1.375B · 2025 (valuation above $10B) · backed by Valor Equity Partners, Mubadala Capital, NVIDIA, Founders Fund
Summary
The Senior Sales Director drives revenue growth across high-impact AI segments by leading complex sales cycles and defining go-to-market strategy. This role involves managing multi-million-dollar deals with enterprise AI organizations and technical stakeholders while building executive relationships to expand Crusoe...
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: Crusoe.ai is seeking a Senior Sales Director to drive revenue growth across high-impact AI segments, including foundation model companies, enterprise AI teams, robotics, and other GPU-intensive workloads. This role owns the strategy and execution required to land and expand Crusoe Cloud with the world’s most sophisticated AI customers. You will lead complex, high-value sales cycles and help define how Crusoe competes and wins in the AI infrastructure market. Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company, combining low-cost energy, large-scale data centers, and high-performance GPU cloud. As Senior Sales Director, you will translate this advantage into repeatable, enterprise-grade revenue while shaping Crusoe’s go-to-market motion as we scale.
What You'll Be Working On:
- Own Strategic Revenue: Lead multi-million-dollar sales opportunities across AI-native startups and enterprise AI organizations.
- Run Complex Sales Cycles: Navigate technical, financial, and executive stakeholders to close long-term infrastructure deals.
- Build Executive Relationships: Partner with CTOs, AI leaders, and founders to support their training and inference roadmaps.
- Shape GTM Strategy: Provide market feedback on pricing, packaging, and product direction to inform Crusoe’s growth strategy.
- Partner Cross-Functionally: Work closely with Solutions Engineering, Product, and Cloud teams to deliver scalable AI infrastructure solutions.
- Drive Forecast Accuracy: Build and manage a disciplined pipeline with strong deal execution and forecasting rigor.
What You'll Bring to the Team:
- Proven Global Sales Leadership: Successfully built and led high-performing, geographically distributed teams of Account Executives, with a consistent history of over-attaining quota.
- Enterprise & Strategic Selling: Deep experience closing large, complex deals involving multiple stakeholders, long sales cycles, and significant contract values.
- Experience Selling Technical Products: Background selling technical, platform, or developer-adjacent products to sophisticated buyers, with the ability to engage both business and technical audiences.
- Operational Excellence: Track record of running a disciplined sales organization with strong pipeline management, forecasting accuracy, and deal execution.
- Builder Mindset: Experience scaling sales teams and go-to-market motions in high-growth environments, balancing structure with speed.
- Executive Presence: Ability to influence and build trust with C-suite, VPs, and founders as a strategic commercial partner.
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Proven ability to work closely with Product, Marketing, and Engineering to drive customer-led growth and continuous improvement.
- Location: San Francisco - Work hybrid, in-office 3+ days a week with your team from our beautiful office at 225 Bush Street with paid lunches and a fun, energetic, in office environment.
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 $420,000 - $500,000 OTE. 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.
Why work at Crusoe
- 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.