Commercial Energy Development Associate

Associate, Commercial Energy Development

Crusoe's mission is to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. We're crafting the engine that powers a world where people can create ambitiously with AI without sacrificing scale, speed, or sustainability.

Be a part of the AI revolution with sustainable technology at Crusoe. Here, you'll drive meaningful innovation, make a tangible impact, and join a team that's setting the pace for responsible, transformative cloud infrastructure.

About This Role : Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As the Associate, Commercial Energy Development, you will play a pivotal role in this mission by supporting the development of a robust pipeline of GW-scale energy and infrastructure projects to support next generation compute campuses, including partner engagement, preliminary due diligence, deal execution support, market analysis, and executive reporting in our Energy Development Group. In other words, you'll be a key player enabling infrastructure to support high-performance computing and AI workloads, helping Crusoe pioneer reliable, energy-first compute at scale.

You will work on projects across North America, focusing on delivering industry leading time-to-market and scale and creative energy solutions. While delivering robust power systems, you will focus on leveraging the industry's energy demand to catalyze low-carbon baseload power. Including, but not limited to, solar, energy storage, hydro, nuclear, geothermal, and gas + CCS. This position directly impacts Crusoe's mission by identifying and advancing opportunities to execute on global-scale climate aligned data center infrastructure. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, grow client relationships, support contract negotiation, support early stage development and drive regulatory compliance.

What You'll Be Working On :

• Pipeline development : Manage early stage opportunity sourcing and qualification, working closely with Commercial Leads and the Digital Infrastructure Group
• Partner engagement : Conduct preliminary discussions with potential counterparties and partners to validate project details and fit with Crusoe criteria and objectives
• Project due diligence : Drive vetting of early stage projects to identify key risks and mitigation pathways to create a recommendation to advance / kill projects
• Deal execution support : Support Commercial Leads in driving deal analyses, structuring, and negotiation
• Cross-Functional Collaboration : Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Technical Development, Real Estate, Power Infrastructure, Digital Infrastructure, Regulatory, Cloud, and others to drive alignment between pipeline development and Crusoe's long term goals
• Market & Regulatory Analysis : Analyze regulatory and policy developments impacting both the energy and AI industry. Recommend proactive adjustments to business strategies based on market analysis.
• Market Research : Assess key trends within market segments (grid power incl. utilities / ISOs; gas power incl. turbine OEMs and gas suppliers, renewables incl. IPPs, etc.) to identify opportunities and support efforts to capitalize on them
• Interconnection & Tax Abatement : Support interconnection application process and property tax abatement negotiations.
• Data Management and Executive Reporting : Own critical project data (cost, schedule, deal terms, equipment details, etc.) and drive synthesis to support executive reporting

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Benefits :

Compensation : Compensation will be paid in the range of $123,000-$140,000. Restricted Stock Units and an annual targeted bonus are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, 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.