Strategic Initiatives and Government Operations Manager

About this role

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 is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company. Crusoe sources power, manufactures modular data centers, builds hyperscale campuses, and operates its own cloud. Our ability to execute across this stack of capabilities requires Crusoe to coordinate closely with a diverse set of stakeholders: governments, utilities, customers, communities, and other local stakeholders. Every development requires Crusoe to navigate a unique set of permitting, energy, tax, workforce, logistics, environmental and other considerations that collectively earn the local and commercial trust needed to move forward. Our approach to navigating these considerations shapes both our cost structure and our differentiation vis-a-vis competitors. Our ability to treat and understand each of these stakeholders as unique collaborators, while operating at increasing scale is critical to Crusoe’s ongoing growth and approach.

As policy and regulation related to AI-infrastructure continues to evolve, our approach must constantly adapt with it. A county, state or country may rewrite its incentives or regulations, a utility commission may change tariff structures, a federal agency may issue a new program, or a community may raise new concerns about AI-infrastructure. Our team has to see these changes, understand what they mean for the business, develop an approach that addresses the problem, and help the broader organization act.

The Strategic Initiatives and Government Operations role will turn policy, regulatory, and community realities into business decisions and policies that improve the communities in which we operate, while making Crusoe the preferred AI-infrastructure provider for our partners, customers, communities, and regulators. We ensure Crusoe's growth is both profitable and differentiated, and that our business delivers real social and environmental value wherever possible.

YOUR MISSION

This role will have two core functions:

- Help Crusoe scope, analyze, and execute on big, strategic bets with a clear view of the government, community, and commercial forces that decide whether they succeed.

- Enable the broader Government Affairs team’s operations by connecting the dots; creating cross-functional workflows, products, and reports that bring insight to light and allow team members and executives to improve decision-making; and embedding AI across the team’s day-to-day operations

Across these two core functions, you will build quantitative and qualitative analysis, run initiatives, and turn ambiguous problems into structured plans and recommendations for leadership. You will work closely with the Senior Manager of Strategic Initiatives and the VP of Government Affairs while partnering closely with the commercial, energy, development, finance, and sustainability teams to ensure our initiatives support and are integrated into the company’s broader operations.

This will be a fast–paced, ambiguous role, requiring strong communication and prioritization of competing initiatives and responsibilities. Success in this role will entail a mixture of robust analysis, communication, and organization as well as pragmatic execution. It will be measured by whether your work helps Crusoe win the right projects, make better decisions, and build a business that is both profitable and good for the communities it serves.

WHAT YOU'LL BE WORKING ON

Strategic bets: scope, analyze, and execute

- Scope and frame high-priority strategic initiatives with the Senior Manager of Strategic Initiatives, from early hypothesis through execution and handoff to a permanent owner.

- Analyze the government, regulatory, and community forces behind new markets, campuses, facilities, and initiatives: permitting, entitlements, interconnection, incentives, tax policy, housing, environment, and workforce programs, across states and countries.

- Translate those forces into commercial implications: initiative / site economics, project timelines, incentive value, risk, and differentiation versus competitors.

- Build models and scenario analyses to size opportunities, compare jurisdictions or programs, and test the assumptions behind strategic decisions.

- Write memos and build decks for the VP of Government Affairs and the President & CSO's organization that lead with the recommendation, lay out the evidence, and name key uncertainties.

- Help shape how Crusoe's business model stays profitable and differentiated, including how energy-first / sustainable development, community benefits, and environmental performance create commercial advantage.

GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS OPERATIONS: CONNECT THE DOTS

- Design and run the cross-functional workflows that link Government Affairs with commercial, energy, development, finance, and…