Crusoe
Senior Director, Analytics & Data Science
San Francisco, CA - US. Posted a month ago
The role
You will lead a newly formed team of centralized analysts and data scientists embedded across business units. You will define the operating model, build data models, and provide decision support for leadership across domains like cloud, power, and manufacturing.
What you will do
- Stand up the central team and design the staffing and operating model
- Recruit and grow analysts and data scientists
- Set standards for analytical rigor including experimental design and forecasting
- Build the data science capability for predictive and statistical methods
- Own certified marts and metric definitions
- Own executive and cross-business reporting
- Drive high-stakes decision support for leadership
- Build toward self-service analytics
- Maintain close proximity to the business through embedded analysts
- Partner with the Data team on data foundation and business definitions
Required qualifications
- 15+ years in analytics or data science
- 5+ years leading teams that include data scientists, analysts, and analytics engineers
- Fluency with SQL and Python
- Strong data modeling instincts
- Hands-on experience with dbt or equivalent
- Direct experience applying forecasting, experimental design, and statistical inference to business problems
- Experience with a modern data stack (BigQuery, dbt, Airflow, or equivalents)
- Experience defining and certifying metrics and testing business rules
- Comfort with P&L mechanics, unit economics, capital projects, and returns analysis
- Credibility in a room with the CFO and business unit leaders
- Ability to operate in a dotted-line structure with competing priorities
- Track record of being the go-to person for data accuracy
Nice to have
- Advanced degree (Master's or Ph.D.) in a quantitative field (e.g., Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science) or equivalent experience
- Experience in capital-intensive or operationally complex industries: energy, construction, manufacturing, supply chain, or data center development
- Familiarity with cloud or infrastructure business models, including ARR, utilization, and capacity planning economics
- Hands-on use of AI-assisted coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot
- Experience applying forecasting or optimization to physical operations, e.g., capacity planning, supply chain, energy, or fleet management
- Experience in a hypergrowth company where processes were still being built
- Experience enabling LLM or MCP-based self-service analytics on top of governed data models
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.