Director, Product Introduction - Spark Crusoe · On-site –ago

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.

Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI Factory company with a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. Our competitive advantage, "Speed is the only moat," is directly tied to our ability to rapidly design, manufacture, and deploy our own modular power and compute infrastructure.

• Framework Ownership:
  Own the five phase Spark NPI framework:
  Concept and Feasibility, Design and Development, Prototype and Verification, Pilot and Pre-Production, and Launch and Scale. Set entry and exit criteria and run every gate review. Product Management and Technical Project Management are standing participants.
• Release Authority:
  Hold the design freeze and production release decisions. Gates 2 and 4 clear only when the product acceptance criteria set by Product Management and the manufacturing readiness criteria you define are both met.
• Gate Discipline:
  No unverified risk passes a gate without explicit sign-off and an action plan with an owner and a date. A flaw caught in Phase 2 costs a fraction of the same flaw in Phase 4.
• Readiness Assessment:
  Maintain a readiness scorecard modeled on Manufacturing Readiness Level and Production Readiness Review practice. Make readiness measured, not asserted.
• Design Baseline & Change Control:
  Freeze the baseline at the close of Phase 2 and chair the change control board from there, managing ECO and ECN flow through PLM. Product Management sets cut-in intent; you set cut-in timing.
• Package Completeness:
  Verify each release package is complete and buildable before it leaves engineering: drawings, specifications, indented BOM, interface control documents, test procedures, and compliance documentation.

• Demand Definition:
  Translate the product roadmap into dated, specific readiness demands on Crusoe Industries, Supply Chain, Quality, and Field Operations. Every function knows what it owes, and by when, before the phase begins.
• Program Execution:
  Run the NPI program day to day. Own the integrated schedule, the risk register, and the action log, and drive every open item to closure rather than reporting on it.
• Validation Campaigns:
  Plan and execute the EVT, DVT, and PVT builds with Crusoe Industries and contract manufacturing partners. Be on the floor for the builds, and convert every finding into a tracked action with an owner and a date.
• Manufacturing Readiness:
  Crusoe Industries owns the line, the process, and the yield. You define the readiness bar they must clear at each gate,…