Commercial Energy Development Associate

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.

This role will be required to be in office 5 days per week in our San Francisco, CA, or Denver, CO, office.

• 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 counter parties 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

• Energy & Real Estate Industry
  
  Experience:
  
  A minimum of 4+ years of experience in the energy and or industrial real estate sector(s), specifically within the project development of large-scale infrastructure
• Power Marketing & PPA Origination:
  Experience with common energy sector players, deal structures, and origination strategies
• AI Compute or Data Center
  
  Experience:
  
  Deep interest in AI workloads and working with AI infrastructure providers, hyperscalers, or compute developers
• Market & Regulatory Understanding:
  Solid familiarity with the U.S. energy landscape and fluency in macro market trends
• Key
  
  Skills:
  
  Adept in building relationships, highly organized / detail oriented, ability to work seamlessly across multiple projects
• Humility:
  Commitment to a flat organizational culture where no task is too small, there is an obligation to challenge and be challenged, and the best idea wins with no ego
• Hypothesis Driven:
  Comfortable with ambiguity and able to solve complex problems with imperfect information by identifying first principles and making…