Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives - Special Projects

The role

You will work with the President/CSO and other leaders to make and implement strategic decisions. You will write recommendations, launch new programs, and lead special projects for the President's office.

What you will do

• Define decision options and write short memos for executives.
• Back recommendations with models covering unit economics, scenarios, and capacity plans.
• Turn approved recommendations into programs with goals, milestones, and budgets.
• Run pilots to test risky assumptions.
• Coordinate engineering, finance, legal, real estate, and outside partners.
• Lead projects that no single team owns or that cross business units.
• Support the President on leadership meetings, board and investor materials, international expansion, and deal evaluations.
• Screen incoming requests to the office.

Required qualifications

• 7–10 years in management consulting, corporate strategy, investment banking, private equity, or a strategy or chief of staff role at a fast-growing infrastructure, energy, or technology company.
• Meaningful time at an operating company.
• Strong writing for senior leaders, such as investment memos, board materials, or strategy recommendations backed by numbers.
• Experience taking a program from approved idea to day-to-day operation.
• Ability to build financial models from scratch, including scenarios.
• Experience in at least one of these areas: data centers, power and energy, AI compute and cloud, or manufacturing.
• Daily use of AI tools like Claude or Gemini for research, analysis, and writing.

Nice to have

• Experience preparing board or investor materials at a late-stage private company.
• Experience launching a new product, business line, or venture, either inside a larger company or at a startup.
• Experience with international market entry or cross-border deals, especially in Latin America or Europe.
• Spanish or Portuguese is a plus.
• Experience scaling manufacturing or with lean operations.
• An MBA or a quantitative graduate degree.

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

Before you apply

• We'll ask for a writing sample and give you a case exercise.

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.