Senior Utility Contracts Manager

The role

You will own the full lifecycle of utility infrastructure agreements, including negotiating new agreements and managing obligations across a data center portfolio. You will work with real estate, power engineering, legal, and finance teams to manage deadlines, deliverables, and counterparty commitments.

What you will do

• Lead the negotiation of utility infrastructure agreements for new and existing data center campuses.
• Own the responsibility matrix for each project's agreement stack.
• Run monthly deadline reviews and drive early escalation of at-risk items.
• Serve as authority on utility requirements including tariff provisions and reliability obligations.
• Manage the contractual side of customer-build programs.
• Act as the connective tissue between EDG, Real Estate, Power Engineering, Legal, Finance, and data center tenants.
• Provide leadership with visibility into obligation status, upcoming deadlines, and contract risks.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in the electric utility sector, at a utility, or negotiating and managing utility agreements on behalf of large customers or developers.
• Direct experience in large-load interconnection, energy service / electric service agreements, and utility construction agreements.
• Strong working command of utility tariffs, end-user connection requirements, interconnection processes, metering standards, and reliability obligations (NERC standards, RTO/ISO requirements such as MI
• Hands-on familiarity with the engineering, procurement, and construction lifecycle.
• Demonstrated success negotiating complex infrastructure agreements with utility counterparties.
• Exceptional organization and attention to detail.
• Ability to translate contract language into clear actions for engineers, real estate teams, finance, and executives.

Nice to have

• 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

About the company

Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company that owns and operates each layer of the stack to power AI workloads. The company uses an energy-first approach to solve power bottlenecks for AI compute.