Director, Microgrid & Distributed Energy Strategy

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end development of distributed energy and microgrid projects from identification to energization
• Build and own campus-level technoeconomic models across microgrid topologies including solar, storage, and gas combinations
• Drive the full development lifecycle including site selection, permitting, commercial structuring, and financing
• Manage EPCs, OEMs, and internal teams to ensure accountability through construction and commissioning
• Negotiate high-impact commercial agreements and technology pilots
• Develop novel market structures and commercial templates to unlock speed and certainty in power access
• Partner with Public Affairs to shape permitting, interconnection, and market rules

Requirements

• 10+ years in energy development, power markets, energy-tech commercialization, or infrastructure strategy
• Proven track record of owning energy projects from identification through energization at 200 MW scale or greater
• Hands-on expertise in technoeconomic modeling for solar, storage, and gas hybrid topologies
• Deep understanding of permitting, interconnection, reliability, and project bankability
• Engineering degree required; advanced technical degree strongly preferred
• Ability to travel frequently to meet with clients and stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience at leading large-scale microgrid companies
• Direct project experience with gigawatt-scale site planning
• Familiarity with large flexible loads such as data centers or industrial compute
• Established network across microgrid developers, OEMs, EPCs, utilities, and financiers

About the Company

Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company that builds and operates the computing and energy infrastructure underpinning the AI era. They own and operate each layer of the stack to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads through an energy-first approach.