Director, Recruiting, Digital Infrastructure

Crusoe Energy Systems LLC; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 215,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity

Paid time off

Comprehensive health, dental & vision

HSA contributions

Parental leave

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Professional development

Mental health support

Commuter benefits

401(k) with match

Volunteer time off

Global travel insurance

Meals allowance

Job summary

Crusoe Energy Systems LLC is seeking a senior talent acquisition leader to scale our recruitment function for Digital Infrastructure in a high-growth setting. You will lead a team of recruiters, partner with executives, and drive a data-driven, AI-enabled approach to hiring across multiple divisions.

The role requires 15+ years of experience, a track record of building scalable recruiting functions, and the ability to move from reactive hiring to proactive planning.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of talent acquisition experience.
• Experience building/scaling recruiting in high-growth environments.
• Uses data/analytics to diagnose funnel performance and forecast risk.
• Operates a metrics-driven organization with accountability.
• Has managed managers and developed recruiting leaders.
• Builds repeatable processes and scalable systems without over-engineering.
• Partners across Finance, Engineering, and executives.

Responsibilities

• Lead talent acquisition for Digital Infrastructure teams, aligning hiring roadmaps with growth plans.
• Build and scale a recruiting team focused on speed, judgment, and execution quality.
• Serve as strategic partner to hiring leaders, calibrating roles and accountability.
• Evolve recruiting to balance velocity with consistency, moving to proactive hiring.
• Improve intake, workflow, and decision-making to reduce bottlenecks and improve candidate experience.
• Translate demand into structured hiring plans, identifying talent gaps and risks.
• Use data/analytics to forecast risks and drive improvements across the recruiting cycle.
• Adopt AI, automation, and modern recruitment tools to increase efficiency and signal quality.
• Collaborate with leadership to ensure cohesive hiring plans across divisions.
• Ensure hiring managers, candidates, and teams experience recruiting as fair and responsive.

Skills

Talent acquisition leadership

Data-driven decisions

People management

High-growth environments

Job description

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 scaling fast, and the technical recruiting function needs to match that intensity. Reporting to the VP of Recruiting, you will be leading a team of recruiters supporting our Digital Infrastructure Group hiring. You will drive both immediate hiring outcomes and the operational infrastructure required to sustain the team through the next phase of growth.

This role inherits a team of recruiters and will be responsible for hiring and scaling the team it into a world-class talent acquisition engine. The mandate is clear: deliver the talent Crusoe needs to fuel aggressive growth today while building the systems, processes, and team capabilities that support 2x, 3x, and 5x growth without breaking.

Recruiting is a core operating capability at Crusoe. This role is responsible for ensuring hiring leaders, executives, and recruiters operate with shared standards, strong calibration, and clear accountability for hiring outcomes. This role is for someone who sees recruiting as a competitive advantage — a strategic capability tied directly to execution, growth, and operational reliability. You will have the autonomy to make bold bets on process, technology, and team design that position Crusoe to scale without sacrificing quality or speed.

This role is required to be onsite in our San Francisco, CA office 5 days/week

What You'll Be Working On:

• Lead talent acquisition for all Digital Infrastructure teams, aligning hiring roadmaps with business priorities, growth plans, and operational realities.
• Build and scale a recruiting team that operates with speed, efficiency, judgment, and consistency — setting the standard for responsiveness and execution quality.
• Serve as a strategic partner to hiring leaders, driving role clarity, calibration, and shared accountability for hiring outcomes.
• Evolve the recruiting model to balance velocity with consistency — moving from reactive execution to proactive, predictable hiring.
• Strengthen intake, workflow, and decision-making processes that eliminate bottlenecks and improve stakeholder and candidate experience.
• Translate demand into structured hiring plans, proactively identifying talent gaps, timing risks, and capacity constraints.
• Use data and analytics to diagnose funnel performance, forecast risks, and drive continuous improvement across every stage of the recruiting cycle.
• Adopt AI, automation, and modern recruitment tools to increase efficiency, improve signal quality, and free the team to focus on high-judgment work.
• Navigate the unique challenges of hiring across multiple divisions while working with other recruiting leadership to ensure hiring plans are cohesive.
• Ensure every hiring manager, candidate, and team member experiences recruiting as responsive, fair, and reflective of Crusoe's standards.

What You'll Bring to the Team:

• You have 15+ years of experience in talent acquisition, including building and scaling recruiting functions in high-growth environments.
• You have led talent acquisition in high paced environments, ideally with experience within Digital Infrastructure.
• You use data and analytics to diagnose funnel performance, forecast risk, and hold teams accountable to outcomes.
• You have run a metrics driven organization.
• You have managed managers — not just individual recruiters — and have a track record of developing and growing recruiting leaders.
• You have operated at both a scaled company and in a high-growth or startup environment, ideally seeing an organization through significant headcount expansion.
• You build repeatable processes and scalable systems without over-engineering or leading with process at the expense of results.
• You partner across levels and functions — from finance to engineering to executive leadership — adapting approach to each audience.
• You operate with urgency, ownership, and accountability, measuring success by whether the right people are in seats, on time, and set up to succeed.
• You bring curiosity and enthusiasm for AI tools and automation as applied to recruiting workflows and operations.

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 $215,000 - $255,000 + 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.