Legal Partnership & Innovation Lead

We’re supercharging the clean economy

Crux is the capital markets platform changing the way clean energy and manufacturing projects are financed in the U.S. Crux’s platform, market intelligence, and expert team help developers and manufacturers unlock financing through all stages of project development and operation.

Our team of 540+ is composed of experts in energy, tax, finance, government, and technology. We have raised $77 million in capital from some of the best investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Lowercarbon Capital, New System Ventures, Overture, Ardent Venture Partners, QED, Canapi, and others. These funds are joined by strategic investors including Pattern Energy, Clearway Energy, EDF Renewables, Intersect Power, LS Power, Orsted, Hartree Partners, Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, and OMERS Ventures.

An inflection point in American energy and manufacturing.

Energy demand is growing for the first time in 20 years, driven by surging manufacturing, transportation, electrification, and data centers. Simultaneously, hundreds of billions of dollars are being invested in domestic supply chains for critical minerals and components. Developers and manufacturers will require trillions of dollars in capital to meet growing needs.

Unfortunately, the capital markets supporting this transformation remain opaque, fragmented, and complex. At Crux, we recognized the missing infrastructure: a central capital markets platform designed specifically for the next century of American energy and industry. By connecting counterparties, providing market intelligence, and streamlining transactions, we unlock faster decision making, lower cost of capital, and accelerated investment.

The Opportunity

Crux is looking for an attorney with prior Big Law experience to join our team in a unique, cross-functional role that blends legal insight with business and product strategy. As our founding Legal Partnerships & Innovation Lead, you’ll help shape how Crux works with law firms, builds legal tools and datasets, and engages with the broader legal and financial markets.

This is a unique opportunity for someone with deep legal training and strong commercial and partnership instincts to shape the legal infrastructure of the clean economy.

What you’ll do

• Drive the evolution of Crux’s legal products. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Design to identify, design and improve platform features that make life easier for law firm users and their clients. Use your understanding of legal workflows to inform product development and help drive adoption across firms.

• Be the voice of legal users. Act as a trusted contact for lawyers engaging with Crux. Collect and synthesize feedback from the legal community and ensure it influences both how we build and how we go to market.

• Evaluate how AI can help. Stay on top of new AI tools for legal workflows and help identify how they can improve Crux’s internal operations and the law firm experience of Crux’s products. Work with the product and engineering teams to vet and implement the right ones.

• Own Crux’s legal toolkit. Maintain, evolve and expand our core legal products—like diligence checklists, contract templates, and sample term sets. Build formal feedback processes and working groups with key firms and partners to keep our toolkit up-to-date and responsive to market needs.

• Help us understand and structure legal data. Build a dataset around transaction terms. Identify useful legal data sources, both internally and externally, and collaborate with internal teams to help Crux define opportunities for standardization and other data usages—on the platform and in the market.

• Grow and deepen relationships with law firms. Work closely with our Partnerships team to strengthen our network of law firms —across partners, associates, paralegals, and innovation leaders. You’ll help expand key firm relationships and build new ones, with a focus on identifying and delivering value to both sides.

• Build long-term partnerships. Drive law firm relationship development by identifying areas of mutual opportunity—including referral relationships, co-selling opportunities, joint product offerings and cross-collaboration. You'll organize networking events, client dinners, panel discussions, and represent Crux at legal and industry conferences.

Travel: Up to 25% (client events, conferences, internal team onsites).

What You’ve Done

• 3-7 years of experience practicing at a top-tier law firm, ideally in transactional work such as project finance, M&A, or capital markets.

• Experience with or interest in clean energy markets and/or FinTech is a plus.

• Built strong internal and external stakeholder relationships in complex environments.

• Found ways to turn legal expertise into practical tools, product improvements, or strategic insights—whether in a past in-house role, a tech environment, or side initiatives.

• Shown an entrepreneurial mindset by helping get new ideas off the ground—whether through launching an initiative, shaping go-to-market plans, or creating content or frameworks from scratch.

• Worked cross-functionally and independently in fast-moving environments.

What We Bring

• $77M raised from top investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Lowercarbon Capital, New System Ventures, Overture, Ardent Venture Partners, QED, Canapi, and others.

• Healthcare: We cover 100% of premiums for employees with a variety of plans on Aetna (nationwide) and Kaiser (WA and California), and subsidize $400/month for dependents (total), if relevant.

• Dental & Vision: We cover 100% of premiums for employees and 50% for dependents (each), if relevant.

• Holidays & PTO: 10 company holidays + 20 days of paid vacation annually.

• 401(k): We support a 401(k), though do not currently offer matching (typical for early-stage startups).

• Team Offsites: Regular all-team gatherings 3x/year.

• Compensation: Base salary in the $200’s with company wide bonus potential and equity in the form of stock options.
  

Our Values

Care for each other

We support each other—in our growth, in our work, and toward our shared mission. And when we do that, we have fun.

Build and improve rapidly

We move quickly. That requires focus, asking whether we’re prioritizing the right things, and executing them as best as possible.

Focus unremittingly on customers

Our first obligation is to our customers and partners. We keep their needs front and center in everything we do.

Demonstrate ownership

We are all owners of Crux. This is our team, our company, and our product—and we show that to each other every day.

Convene a team that reflects the breadth of experiences in the country

We’re building a team with a wide range of backgrounds and a culture where everyone can thrive.

We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.