Staff Technical Program / Capacity Planning Manager
Crusoe
IT
San Francisco, CA, USA
USD 193k-234k / year + Equity
Posted on Mar 6, 2026
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 This Role:
Join Crusoe Energy as a Capacity Planning Manager, a pivotal role providing critical leadership to our Capacity Planning & Efficiency team. You will drive the effective forecasting, allocation, and optimization of resources essential for our AI cloud and data center expansion. This position uniquely balances service, infrastructure, financial, and business constraints to scalably manage exceptions and achieve company-level impact. You will collaborate across diverse engineering and business teams, directly shaping Crusoe’s ability to efficiently plan, optimize, and expand its cloud capabilities while upholding our unwavering commitment to sustainability and operational excellence. This is a full-time position.
What You'll Be Working On:
Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $193,000 -$234,000. 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.
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 This Role:
Join Crusoe Energy as a Capacity Planning Manager, a pivotal role providing critical leadership to our Capacity Planning & Efficiency team. You will drive the effective forecasting, allocation, and optimization of resources essential for our AI cloud and data center expansion. This position uniquely balances service, infrastructure, financial, and business constraints to scalably manage exceptions and achieve company-level impact. You will collaborate across diverse engineering and business teams, directly shaping Crusoe’s ability to efficiently plan, optimize, and expand its cloud capabilities while upholding our unwavering commitment to sustainability and operational excellence. This is a full-time position.
What You'll Be Working On:
- Scale Infrastructure Resources: Own and manage services and plans to efficiently scale compute, network, and storage infrastructure.
- Drive Executive Decision-Making: Develop and analyze business and technical data and scenarios to inform high-level executive decisions regarding infrastructure and Crusoe products.
- Execute Capacity Planning: Implement end-to-end capacity planning processes, methodologies, and data to deliver optimized and executable capacity plans.
- Proactively Address Issues: Identify and build solutions for capacity-related challenges, ensuring timely resolution.
- Forecast and Manage Deployment: Understand demand sources and trends to generate accurate forecasts, analyze changes, and develop strategic deployment plans.
- Partner for Optimal Scaling: Collaborate with product and Go-To-Market/Sales teams to align on demand signals and requirements, ensuring optimal infrastructure scaling and service placement.
- Optimize Across Engineering: Partner across the engineering landscape to optimize at the intersection of hardware, infrastructure, and software, working closely with service owners, SRE, and hardware teams.
- Balance Cost and Product: Work with the Finance team to balance cost efficiency with technical and product considerations.
- Drive Strategic Change: Define problem statements, collect data, build analytical models, and recommend changes to drive strategic optimization.
- Improve Planning Efficiency: Define and implement improvements to planning efficiency and quality, partnering with software engineers for development.
- Monitor Capacity: Drive the requirements and development of capacity dashboards to monitor and proactively manage capacity shifts.
- Analyze Financial Data: Analyze customer usage, revenue trends, and financial reports, contributing to budget planning and assessing capacity impact.
- Model Capital Efficiencies: Gather data from functional groups, mine large volumes of information, and create models to drive capital and operational efficiencies.
- Educational Foundation: Possess a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Operations Research, Data Science, or equivalent professional experience.
- Capacity Planning Expertise: Bring 1+ years of experience in Capacity Planning or Demand Planning within a related field.
- Dynamic Environment Adaptability: Thrive in fast-paced environments, effectively collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.
- Exceptional Problem-Solving: Demonstrate exceptional problem-solving skills and a data-driven approach to decision-making.
- Strong Communication & Collaboration: Exhibit excellent communication, presentation, and collaboration abilities to work effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
- Advanced Degree: A Master's degree in Industrial Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, Operations Research, or another technical field.
- Industry competitive pay
- Restricted Stock Units in a fast growing, well-funded technology company
- Health insurance package options that include HDHP and PPO, vision, and dental for you and your dependents
- Employer contributions to HSA accounts
- Paid Parental Leave
- Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
- Teladoc
- 401(k) with a 100% match up to 4% of salary
- Generous paid time off and holiday schedule
- Cell phone reimbursement
- Tuition reimbursement
- Subscription to the Calm app
- MetLife Legal
- Company paid commuter benefit; $300/month
Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $193,000 -$234,000. 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.