Head of Demand​/Supply Planning

Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.

-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.

Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.

You own matching demand and supply at every level of Crux’s stack — data center, chips, racks, and networking, by location and by customer — so that Crux meets its customer commitments and grows profitably.

• Manage a multi-echelon inventory with right-sized buffers, optimized against business goals to hedge both demand and supply uncertainty while respecting lead times and other business constraints.

• Forecast demand and supply at multiple levels with the accuracy the business can commit against, and you will build the systems that trigger build/lease decisions for data center space and the ordering of racks and networking equipment on time to meet service level and inventory goals.

• Manage customer orders, provide reliable ETAs for capacity delivery, optimize allocation decisions, and run scenarios with quantified impact so the business can make trade‑offs between utilization, margin, and speed. Doing this in a high‑growth, high‑uncertainty, high‑complexity environment requires building autonomous planning and replenishment engines that leverage AI, not a monthly spreadsheet reconciliation.

• Run the integrated planning cadence and own the capacity plan of record, and feed back what the plan reveals about where capacity is needed.

• Partner across Sales, Sourcing, Capacity Delivery, Business Operations, and Finance.

• Delivered Crux’s first integrated capacity plan of record — demand and supply for data center and infrastructure delivery units by location and region — through Stage 1 completion, with a multi-year view beyond it.

• Stood up the demand forecast with Sales and the supply and site readiness views with Sourcing and Development on a shared model, with a first definition of inventory echelons, buffers, and lead times.

• Adapted to a fast‑paced environment, triaging appropriately and continuously improving our function.

• Have the plan of record in active use by the organization for the financial plan, supply delivery and deployment sequencing and build planning.

• Have a multi‑-echelon inventory and buffer policy in place — data center, chips, racks, networking — with buffer sizes justified against demand and supply uncertainty, lead times, and service level and inventory goals.

• Have the triggers running for managing data center space and for ordering racks and networking equipment, tied to the plan of record and lead times.

• Manage customer orders and capacity allocation for Crux’s first set of customer contracts, with reliable delivery ETAs and a defined process for committing capacity, with Sales and Pricing.

• Run scenario analysis on supply delays, demand shifts, and site delays, with the utilization and margin impact of each quantified and agreed triggers and mitigations.

• Demonstrated an AI‑forward and automated approach to this role — you have built, in a hands‑on way, the first version of an autonomous planning and replenishment engine covering forecasting, supply/demand reconciliation, and allocation that the team…