Full-Time

Senior Staff Customer Operations Program Manager

Crusoe

Crusoe

501-1,000 employees

Harnesses flare gas for on-site HPC

Compensation Overview

$175k - $245k/yr

San Francisco, CA, USA + 1 more

More locations: Sunnyvale, CA, USA

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Category
Business & Strategy (1)
Required Skills
LLM
Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
Salesforce
JIRA
REST APIs
Data Analysis

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Requirements
  • At least 8 years of experience in technical program management, strategy and operations, chief-of-staff, or related roles at a high-growth technology company.
  • Experience with GPU, cloud infrastructure, inference, model lifecycle, or other technical, API-first products and their customers.
  • Experience with customer-success operations or scaled, programmatic customer success.
  • Experience designing durable, scalable operational frameworks from the ground up.
  • Hands-on experience prototyping with large language models and modern artificial intelligence tools.
  • Fluency with Salesforce, Sigma, Claude Code, and Workato.
  • Ability to operate autonomously amid shifting priorities.
Responsibilities
  • Run the Customer Experience operating rhythm and change management by owning the Objectives and Key Results program, rationalizing meeting cadences and syncs, and coaching teams through change with documentation, tooling, and discipline.
  • Assemble data and draft materials for quarterly business reviews and offsites, track leadership action items to completion, and run cross-functional special projects end to end.
  • Establish oversight for customer programs including onboarding, offboarding, maintenance windows, incident debriefs, and new deployments; maintain a current view of critical Customer Experience timelines and surface risks before they become misses.
  • Manage the timeline, sequencing, and accountability for delivering artificial-intelligence tooling within Customer Experience, including triage agents, artificial-intelligence-assisted reliability engineering, and support-automation releases in the field.
  • Run launch readiness across Customer Experience by coordinating enablement, customer communications, Jira hygiene, and go/no-go calls for new product releases.
  • Combine data from disparate sources into defensible conclusions and validate numbers before they reach executives.
  • Build dashboards, draft quarterly business review documents, and prototype automation directly.
  • Design frameworks, templates, and cadences from scratch in the absence of an established program-management office.
Desired Qualifications
  • Prior experience as the first program-management hire in a function or company.
  • High agency and a bias for action, with a hands-on approach to completing work.
  • Ability to set high standards while building trusted relationships across teams.

Crusoe Energy Systems captures wasted flare gas from oil and gas sites and uses it to generate electricity on-site, powering modular data centers for high-performance computing tasks. This setup enables clients to run compute-heavy workloads such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cryptocurrency mining using fuel captured from the same site. The company’s model has two parts: helping energy producers reduce flaring by turning stranded gas into usable power, and selling cloud computing services to customers around the world. In short, Crusoe pairs energy capture with on-site computing to provide affordable, low-carbon computing power. Unlike traditional data-center operators, Crusoe owns and controls the energy-to-compute chain—from gas capture to data processing—creating a direct link between the energy and technology sectors and offering a clear environmental benefit alongside access to compute resources.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

Series D

Total Funding

$1.1B

Headquarters

Denver, Colorado

Founded

2018

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What believers are saying

  • Crusoe closed a $1.375 billion Series E on October 24, 2025 at $10 billion valuation.
  • June 9, 2026 brought 4.9 GW contracted capacity, including Oracle, Microsoft, and Missouri sites.
  • March 27, 2026 and June 3, 2026 deals expanded Abilene and a 750 MW Bergen Engines power pact.

What critics are saying

  • Bloomberg reported June 11, 2026 Google pressed Crusoe out of Wyoming over cost and timing.
  • Crusoe's Texas gas-powered buildout faces escalating emissions scrutiny after July 2026 permit reporting.
  • If hyperscalers walk, Crusoe's 40 GW pipeline becomes stranded infrastructure and financing collapses.

What makes Crusoe unique

  • Crusoe's June 2026 pipeline topped 40 GW across data centers and Crusoe Cloud.
  • March 2026 NVIDIA partnership spans physical design, inference, and model tooling.
  • Crusoe combines flare-mitigation origins with vertically integrated power, compute, and cloud operations.

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Benefits

Industry competitive pay

Health insurance package options that include HDHP and PPO, vision, and dental for you and your dependents

Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability

Parental leave

Stock options in a fast-growing, well-funded technology company

Pet-friendly offices

Teladoc

401(k) with a 4% match

Unlimited time off

Cell phone reimbursement

Tuition reimbursement

Company paid commuter benefit; $100 per month

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Company News

Wired
Apr 2nd, 2026
Google-backed Texas data center to emit 4.5M tons of CO₂ yearly via private gas plant

A Google-backed data center in Texas will be partly powered by natural gas turbines emitting 4.5 million tonnes of greenhouse gases annually, equivalent to adding over 970,000 petrol cars to the road. The Goodnight campus in Armstrong County is being built by AI infrastructure company Crusoe, which Google joined in November as part of a $40 billion Texas investment. According to state air permit applications, the facility's fifth and sixth buildings will use private, off-grid gas power, though Google says it has no contract in place for this energy. The project reflects a broader trend: data centers are driving a US natural gas boom, with nearly 100 gigawatts of gas-fired power currently in development solely for such facilities. Several planned projects would emit even more, with OpenAI and Oracle's New Mexico facility potentially generating 14 million tonnes yearly.

Crusoe
Dec 24th, 2024
Crusoe Closes $600M in Series D Round at $2.8 Billion Valuation to Power AI

Crusoe is on a mission to align the future of computing with the future of the climate.

Benzinga
Oct 29th, 2024
Crusoe Energy Secures $500M Investment

Crusoe Energy, a data center startup, secured a $500 million equity investment led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, valuing the company at approximately $3 billion. The investment supports Crusoe's expansion in AI infrastructure and coincides with a $3.4 billion deal with Blue Owl Capital for a new data center in Texas. Crusoe uses waste natural gas to power its centers, reducing emissions. Thiel's Founders Fund continues to invest in AI and cryptocurrency sectors.

VentureBeat
Jul 4th, 2024
From Code To Impact: Crusoe’S Hackathon Reveals Ai’S Power To Drive Change In Energy And Beyond

We want to hear from you! Take our quick AI survey and share your insights on the current state of AI, how you’re implementing it, and what you expect to see in the future. Learn More. In a 24-hour hackathon hosted by Crusoe Energy and Lowercarbon Capital, developers demonstrated the remarkable speed at which AI can tackle longstanding challenges in the clean energy sector. The event, held in San Francisco on June 28-29, 2024, showcased how AI tools can compress months or years of traditional work into mere hours, potentially revolutionizing clean energy deployment.The winning team, Verdigris, exemplified this swift transformation by developing an AI system that addresses key barriers in home electrification. Their tool analyzes mortgage data to identify qualified homeowners for zero-cost upgrades and generates personalized marketing materials, including AI-created images of homes with proposed improvements. This level of personalization and automation could significantly accelerate the adoption of home energy upgrades.Team Verdigris’ winning moment    Credit: Crusoe Verdigris’s system integrates with bank databases to access mortgage information, income data and property details

VentureBeat
Jun 24th, 2024
How Gradient Created An Open Llm With A Million-Token Context Window

Don’t miss OpenAI, Chevron, Nvidia, Kaiser Permanente, and Capital One leaders only at VentureBeat Transform 2024. Gain essential insights about GenAI and expand your network at this exclusive three day event. Learn More. In a recent collaboration, AI startup Gradient and cloud compute platform Crusoe extended the “context window” of Llama-3 models to 1 million tokens. The context window determines the number of input and output tokens a large language model (LLM) can process. Big tech companies and frontier AI labs are locked in a race to extend the context windows of their LLMs. In a few months, models have gone from supporting a few thousand tokens to more than a million in less than a year