Director, New Product Introduction - Spark

Crusoe is an active AI-infrastructure company operating an AI cloud platform, managed AI services, and AI data-center infrastructure.

Series E14 current maintainers9 active leads5 lead step-downsTeam intelligence

Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026

Denver, United States
About Crusoe, Inc.

Crusoe designs, builds, and operates energy-first AI infrastructure. Its offerings include Crusoe Cloud for GPU-based training, fine-tuning, inference, and managed services, alongside AI-optimized data centers and energy infrastructure.

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About the Role

You will own Spark's new-product-introduction program, phase-gate framework, readiness criteria, release decisions, schedule, risks, and action tracking. You will lead validation builds, change control, manufacturing and supply-chain readiness, rack-scale integration, launch reporting, and post-launch reviews.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, or Manufacturing Engineering, or a closely related discipline
  • 10-15 years of NPI, manufacturing engineering, or hardware program management experience
  • Experience carrying a product from concept through ramp under a phase-gate framework
  • Experience owning gate and release decisions
  • Experience executing validation and pilot builds
  • Experience preparing internal factories and external contract manufacturers
  • NPI methodology expertise
  • PLM, indented BOM, revision control, ECO, ECN, and change-control expertise
  • DFM, DFA, and DFT knowledge
  • Design FMEA, first article inspection, non-conformance, corrective action, and factory acceptance testing knowledge
  • Supply-chain risk and supplier qualification knowledge
  • Knowledge of electrical, mechanical, and thermal systems
  • Experience with modular or prefabricated infrastructure products
  • Familiarity with liquid-cooled data center hardware, CDU, and rack-level cooling interfaces

Responsibilities

  • Own the five-phase Spark NPI framework and run gate reviews
  • Set gate entry and exit criteria and hold design-freeze and production-release decisions
  • Maintain readiness scorecards and enforce risk sign-off requirements
  • Freeze design baselines and chair the change control board
  • Verify release-package completeness
  • Translate product roadmaps into readiness demands across functions
  • Own the integrated schedule, risk register, and action log
  • Plan and execute EVT, DVT, and PVT builds
  • Define and verify manufacturing readiness criteria
  • Identify supply-chain risks and drive recovery plans
  • Ensure rack-scale compute infrastructure is integrated and released
  • Ensure released packages support downstream deployment functions
  • Monitor yield, quality, and cost targets and drive corrective plans
  • Report gate status, risks, and launch readiness
  • Run post-launch reviews and improve gate criteria

Benefits

  • Restricted Stock Units
  • Paid time off
  • Paid holidays
  • Leave of absence programs
  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Employer HSA contributions
  • Paid parental leave
  • Life insurance
  • Short-term disability insurance
  • Long-term disability insurance
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Commuter benefits
  • Cell phone stipend
  • 401(k) plan with company match up to 4% of salary
  • Volunteer time off
  • Global travel insurance and emergency assistance
  • Daily meals allowance