Backed by a16z.
About the role
You will own Crux's relationships with the governments, communities, and public audiences that decide where and how fast Crux can build. Data centers today earn their permits, tax agreements, and utility approvals in rooms full of neighbors, county commissioners, and school boards, and increasingly in state legislatures, public utility commissions, and the press, and schedule risk concentrates there. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Experience leading external or corporate communications, including managing PR agencies and coordinating announcements, media strategy, and issues response with senior executives
- Data center community or government affairs experience at a hyperscaler (Meta, Google, AWS, Microsoft) or major developer, you have already run this play in this industry
- Experience in rural and small-market community dynamics, where a data center is the biggest thing to happen to the county in a generation
- Crisis communications experience, including construction incidents, misinformation campaigns, and organized opposition
- Economic development or public-sector background (city or county government, EDC, chamber, legislative or agency staff), you know how the other side of the table thinks
- Spanish or other language fluency relevant to Crux's site markets
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 own Crux's relationships with the governments, communities, and public audiences that decide where and how fast Crux can build. Data centers today earn their permits, tax agreements, and utility approvals in rooms full of neighbors, county commissioners, and school boards, and increasingly in state legislatures, public utility commissions, and the press, and schedule risk concentrates there. Your job is to make Crux the developer that communities and governments say yes to, and to keep that yes durable through a multi-year build. You will build...
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