Senior Director, Technical Recruiting

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:

Crusoe is scaling fast, and the technical recruiting function needs to match that intensity. This is a senior leadership role owning talent acquisition across Product, Engineering, IT, and Security — reporting to the VP of Talent Acquisition. You will drive both immediate hiring outcomes and the operational infrastructure required to sustain them through the next phase of growth.

This role inherits a technical recruiting foundation and is responsible for scaling it into a world-class talent acquisition engine. The mandate is clear: deliver the technical talent Crusoe needs to fuel aggressive growth today while building the systems, processes, and team capabilities that support 2x, 3x, and 5x growth without breaking.

You will lead and develop a growing technical recruiting team consisting of recruiting managers, recruiters, and sourcers supporting Product, Engineering, IT, and Security hiring globally.

Recruiting is a core operating capability at Crusoe. This role is responsible for ensuring hiring leaders, executives, and recruiters operate with shared standards, strong calibration, and clear accountability for hiring outcomes. This role is for someone who sees recruiting as a competitive advantage — a strategic capability tied directly to execution, growth, and operational reliability. You will have the autonomy to make bold bets on process, technology, and team design that position Crusoe to scale without sacrificing quality or speed.

What You'll Be Working On:

• Lead talent acquisition across Product, Engineering, IT, and Security, aligning hiring roadmaps with business priorities, growth plans, and operational realities.

• Build and scale a technical recruiting team that operates with speed, efficiency, judgment, and consistency — setting the standard for responsiveness and execution quality.

• Ensure that

• Mentor and develop recruiting managers, growing leadership depth within the team and building the next tier of recruiting leaders.

• Serve as a strategic partner to engineering executives and hiring leaders, driving role clarity, calibration, and shared accountability for hiring outcomes.

• Evolve the recruiting model to balance velocity with consistency — moving from reactive execution to proactive, predictable hiring.

• Strengthen intake, workflow, and decision-making processes that eliminate bottlenecks and improve stakeholder and candidate experience.

• Translate engineering and product demand into structured hiring plans, proactively identifying talent gaps, timing risks, and capacity constraints.

• Use data and analytics to diagnose funnel performance, forecast risks, and drive continuous improvement across every stage of the recruiting cycle.

• Adopt AI, automation, and modern recruitment tools to increase efficiency, improve signal quality, and free the team to focus on high-judgment work.

• Navigate the unique challenges of hiring across AI infrastructure, cloud engineering, platform, and security disciplines — balancing speed with rigor.

• Ensure every hiring manager, candidate, and team member experiences recruiting as responsive, fair, and reflective of Crusoe's standards.

What You'll Bring to the Team:

• You have 15+ years of experience in talent acquisition, including building and scaling technical recruiting functions in high-growth environments.

• You have led talent acquisition across engineering and product functions, and ideally have also led IT or security recruiting — experience across more than one of these areas is expected.

• You use data and analytics to diagnose funnel performance, forecast risk, and hold teams accountable to outcomes.

• You have run a metrics driven organization.

• You have managed managers — not just individual recruiters — and have a track record of developing and growing recruiting leaders.

• You have operated at both a scaled company and in a high-growth or startup environment, ideally seeing an organization through significant headcount expansion.

• You build repeatable processes and scalable systems without over-engineering or leading with process at the expense of results.

• You partner across levels and functions — from finance to engineering to executive leadership — adapting approach to each audience.

• You operate with urgency, ownership, and accountability, measuring success by whether the right people are in seats, on time, and set up to succeed.

• You bring curiosity and enthusiasm for AI tools and automation as applied to recruiting workflows and operations.

Bonus Points

• You have experience recruiting within AI infrastructure, GPU/accelerated computing, cloud services, or data center environments.

• You have experience in high-growth tech environments with significant annual hiring volumes.

• You have led a recruiting function through an IPO or other major organizational transition.

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation

• Restricted Stock Units

• Paid time off & paid holidays

• 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

Compensation Range

Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $210,000 - $235,000 + 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.