Project Manager - Crusoe Spark Deployments

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** We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Project Manager to lead Crusoe Spark deployments and capacity expansion projects within our Cloud Deployment Operations team. This role is responsible for driving the end-to-end planning and execution of new Spark infrastructure deployments as well as capacity expansions within existing Crusoe data center environments. Projects will span early planning and site readiness through infrastructure delivery, hardware deployment, validation, and operational handoff. As the Project Manager, you will serve as the central point of coordination across engineering, construction, site operations, procurement, logistics, vendors, and cloud infrastructure teams. You will own integrated project plans, manage dependencies and critical milestones, identify and mitigate risks, and ensure teams remain aligned to deliver new and expanded capacity safely, efficiently, and on schedule. This role requires a strong project leader who can manage multiple deployments and capacity expansions in parallel, translate technical dependencies into actionable project plans, and drive cross-functional teams toward clear milestones and customer readiness dates. ## **What You'll Be Working On** - **End-to-End Deployment Ownership:** Lead Crusoe deployment projects from kickoff and planning through site readiness, infrastructure deployment, validation, and operational handoff. - **Capacity Expansion Ownership:** Lead infrastructure capacity expansion projects within existing Crusoe data centers to support increasing customer and platform demand. Coordinate the addition of compute, GPU, storage, networking, and supporting infrastructure while minimizing impact to existing production environments. - **Integrated Project Planning:** Build and maintain comprehensive project schedules covering design, construction, procurement, logistics, network readiness, hardware deployment, commissioning, validation, and customer readiness. - **Site & Infrastructure Readiness:** Coordinate with construction, facilities, engineering, Site Operations, and deployment teams to ensure sites and data halls are ready for new Spark deployments and capacity expansions. - **Cross-Functional Coordination:** Drive alignment across Cloud Deployment Operations, Digital Infrastructure Group (DIG), Network Engineering, Site Operations, Fleet/SRE, Compute, Storage, Procurement, Logistics, Product, and other supporting organizations. - **Dependency & Critical Path Management:** Identify cross-functional dependencies and critical-path activities and ensure owners, required dates, and handoffs are clearly established. - **Hardware & Infrastructure Readiness:** Coordinate procurement, delivery, and readiness of GPUs, servers, networking equipment, storage, cabling, power infrastructure, optics, licenses, and ancillary equipment required for deployments and expansions. - **Deployment Sequencing:** Coordinate installation and deployment sequencing across data halls and existing production environments to maximize available capacity while minimizing operational risk. - **Vendor Management:** Coordinate external vendors and partners, ensuring scope, schedules, deliverables, site access, and completion criteria align with overall deployment plans. - **Risk & Issue Management:** Proactively identify schedule risks, blockers, resource constraints, hardware lead times, infrastructure limitations, and technical dependencies. Drive mitigation plans and escalation paths to protect key milestones. - **Milestone & Handoff Management:** Provide clear phase milestones and handoff criteria, ensuring effective transitions. - **Stakeholder Communication & Project Reporting:** Provide clear and consistent project updates covering progress, upcoming milestones, risks, decisions, dependencies, and required actions. - **Process Improvement:** Contribute to and continuously improve repeatable project management processes, schedules, documentation, reporting, and deployment playbooks that enable Crusoe to deploy and expand infrastructure more efficiently at scale. ## **What You'll Bring to the Team** - **Experience:** 5+ years of technical project or program management experience supporting data centers, cloud infrastructure, construction, hardware deployments, capacity expansion, or other large-scale technical infrastructure programs. - **Project Leadership:** Demonstrated ability to own complex, cross-functional projects from planning through execution and operational handoff. - **Data Center Knowledge:** Strong understanding of data center infrastructure and deployment concepts, including power, cooling, networking, structured cabling, servers, storage, GPU infrastructure, commissioning, and operational readiness. - **Capacity Planning & Expansion:** Experience coordinating infrastructure expansions within existing environments, including evaluating available space, power, network, and supporting infrastructure required to deploy additional capacity. - **Project Planning:** Proven experience developing and managing integrated project schedules, milestones, dependencies, critical paths, and delivery forecasts. - **Risk Management:** Ability to identify risks early, understand downstream impacts, develop mitigation strategies, and drive issues to resolution. - **Vendor Management:** Experience coordinating contractors, equipment suppliers, integrators, and other external partners against defined scopes and project schedules. - **Cross-Functional Collaboration:** Ability to bring together engineering, operations, construction, procurement, logistics, and business stakeholders to drive decisions and maintain alignment. - **Executive Communication:** Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate complex project and technical information into concise status updates, risks, decisions, and recommendations. - **Organization:** Exceptional attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple deployments, capacity expansions, workstreams, dependencies, and priorities simultaneously. - **Problem-Solving:** Comfortable operating in environments where requirements, schedules, and priorities can change quickly. Able to establish structure, drive decisions, and maintain project momentum. - **Travel:** Ability to travel to Crusoe Spark and data center locations as needed to support planning, execution, and deployment activities. ## **Work Style & Execution** - Operates as the project owner, driving accountability across teams without requiring direct reporting relationships. - Comfortable managing multiple Spark deployments and capacity expansion projects simultaneously. - Creates structure and clarity in complex, fast-moving environments. - Proactively and consistently communicates risks, decisions, dependencies, and upcoming milestones, fostering strong cross-functional collaboration, alignment, and timely resolution of issues. - Drives meetings toward decisions, owners, and measurable next steps. - Understands when to escalate issues and provides leadership with clear options and recommendations. - Maintains visibility across procurement, infrastructure readiness, deployment, validation, and customer delivery. - Builds strong working relationships across technical, operational, construction, procurement, and business teams. ## **Success in This Role** Success means delivering new and expanded Crusoe capacity predictably, repeatedly, and at scale. The Project Manager will: - Lead multiple Spark deployments and capacity expansion projects from initial planning through operational readiness and handoff. - Maintain integrated project schedules providing clear visibility into design, construction, procurement, infrastructure, deployment, validation, and readiness milestones. - Ensure sites and existing data halls are ready when equipment and deployment teams arrive. - Coordinate compute, GPU, storage, networking, power, cabling, optics, licenses, and ancillary infrastructure required to bring additional capacity online. - Ensure capacity expansions align with customer demand, infrastructure availability, and required customer readiness dates. - Establish clear ownership and accountability for milestones, dependencies, risks, and action items. - Identify schedule threats and long-lead procurement risks early and drive mitigation plans before they impact delivery. - Coordinate work within existing production environments while minimizing operational impact and deployment risk. - Provide leadership with accurate visibility into project health, critical-path activities, risks, and forecasted completion dates. - Drive effective handoffs between construction, infrastructure, deployment, engineering, validation, and operations teams. - Develop repeatable processes and lessons learned that improve the speed and predictability of future Spark deployments and capacity expansions. - Help Crusoe scale infrastructure capacity to meet customer and business demand while maintaining strong execution, communication, and operational discipline. **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 $115,000 -$140,000 + 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.