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About the role
You will find and secure the sites Crux’s capacity roadmap runs on — through both channels: third-party capacity (powered shells, build-to-suits, colo blocks, and turnkey partner deals) and first-party greenfield development (land, power, incentives, entitlements). You will run a live pipeline of opportunities, screen fast and kill fast, and take the survivors through diligence, negotiation, and internal approval.
What they're looking for
- 10+ years in site selection, land acquisition, or infrastructure development for data centers or comparable capital projects, with hands-on negotiation of purchases, leases, incentives, and utility agreements
- Experience on both sides of the market — evaluating third-party developer/colo offerings and running first-party greenfield development — or deep enough on one side to speak the other’s language credibly
- Track record representing a demanding counterparty to utilities, economic development agencies, and local governments, and managing complex multi-party negotiations to close
- Hyperscale data center site selection experience, or development experience at a major colo/developer platform (QTS, Vantage, CyrusOne, Aligned or similar)
- Working knowledge of interconnection processes and wholesale power markets across multiple US regions
- Experience negotiating economic incentive packages (tax abatements, sales tax exemptions, infrastructure grants)
More about this role
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system.
Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. That gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
You will find and secure the sites Crux’s capacity roadmap runs on — through both channels: third-party capacity (powered shells, build-to-suits, colo blocks, and turnkey partner deals) and first-party greenfield development (land, power, incentives, entitlements). You will run a live pipeline of opportunities, screen fast and kill fast, and take the survivors through diligence, negotiation, and internal approval. Power availability drives the map, so you will work hand-in-glove with the Energy Manager on interconnection reality, and with design,...
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