Senior Utility Contracts Manager

The posting, as Crusoe wrote it

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 This Role

As Senior Manager, Utility Contracts, you will sit within the Energy Development Group (EDG) and own the full lifecycle of Crusoe's utility infrastructure agreements: negotiating new agreements and amendments with serving utilities, and managing the obligations under executed agreements across our data center portfolio. You will be the person who knows every deadline, every deliverable, and every counterparty commitment. You will work hand-in-hand with our real estate, power engineering, legal, and finance teams, and help shape the obligation-management platform we are building to scale this function across every future project.

This is a role for someone who has lived inside the utility world - who reads tariffs and connection requirements fluently, understands how utilities think about interconnection, cost recovery, and reliability obligations, and can lead negotiations with utility commercial and legal teams.

WHAT YOU’LL BE WORKING ON

• Utility Agreement Negotiation: Lead the negotiation of utility infrastructure agreements for new and existing data center campuses - construction agreements, operating agreements, transfer agreements, and amendments - in coordination with EDG commercial leads, outside counsel, and utility counterparties.
• Obligation Management: Own the responsibility matrix for each project's agreement stack: every obligation tracked with its contractual cite, deadline, owner, and status. Run the monthly deadline review, drive early escalation of at-risk items, and make sure recurring obligations (reports, forecasts, certifications, payments) never slip.
• Utility Requirements & Compliance: Serve as EDG's authority on utility requirements - tariff provisions, end-user connection requirements, metering and interconnection specif

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for engineers, real estate teams, finance, and executives - and to communicate credibly with utility commercial, legal, and operations staff.

• Location: Based in, or willing to relocate to, Dallas, TX or San Francisco, CA.

BONUS POINTS

• Experience supporting hyperscale data center, large industrial, or other large-load development projects.
• Familiarity with behind-the-meter / bring-your-own-capacity structures, customer-build lead lines, or asset transfer agreements with utilities.
• Experience implementing contract lifecycle management or obligation-tracking tools.
• Utility regulatory exposure (state commission proceedings, tariff filings)

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity packages
• Restricted Stock Units
• Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs
• Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
• Employer contributions to HSA account
• Paid parental leave
• Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
• Professional development & tuition reimbursement
• Mental health & wellness support
• Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
• Cell phone stipend
• 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
• Volunteer time off
• Global travel insurance & emergency assistance
• Daily meals allowance
• Additional perks & programs specific to location

Compensation Range

Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $160,000 - $200,000+ Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicants knowledge, education, 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.