Senior Director Acquisitions
Crusoe is an AI infrastructure company that designs, builds, and operates AI data centers and a cloud platform. It provides managed AI services, GPU compute, model fine-tuning and inference, and infrastructure operations for organizations building and deploying AI workloads.
Maintainer signals as of 8/20/2026
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About Crusoe
Crusoe, the AI factory company, provides Crusoe Cloud and Crusoe Intelligence Foundry for AI development and production. Its offerings include managed inference, serverless fine-tuning, high-performance NVIDIA and AMD compute, accelerated storage, RDMA networking, managed Kubernetes and Slurm, and operations tooling. The company also designs, builds, and operates modular AI data-center infrastructure using an energy-first approach, serving customers that need scalable training, inference, and AI platform infrastructure.
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About the Role
You will lead the investment strategy and platform expansion for a global AI data center portfolio. You will source acquisitions, negotiate complex transactions and joint ventures, structure financing, manage underwriting and diligence, present investment recommendations, build market relationships, and mentor the acquisitions team.
Requirements
- 15+ years of institutional real estate acquisitions, private equity, or infrastructure investment experience
- Proven record of closing transactions exceeding $500 million
- Mastery of complex JV waterfalls, carried interest structures, and creative financing mechanisms
- Sophisticated negotiation skills
- Exceptional communication skills for presenting complex financial and technical data
- Based in or willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area
Responsibilities
- Architect and execute a multi-region acquisition strategy
- Source off-market land and power-heavy infrastructure sites
- Lead complex transactions from start to finish
- Negotiate PSAs, long-term ground leases, and joint venture agreements
- Serve as liaison to institutional investors, lenders, and capital partners
- Structure project financing and optimize cost of capital
- Own underwriting processes
- Present investment memoranda to executive leadership and the Board
- Manage integrated real estate, power, regulatory, and tax diligence
- Build relationships with brokers, landowners, utility executives, and institutional peers
- Mentor and grow the investment team
- Establish processes and standards for the acquisitions department
Benefits
- Restricted Stock Units
- Health insurance
- HDHP
- PPO
- Vision insurance
- Dental insurance
- Employer HSA contributions
- Paid parental leave
- Paid life insurance
- Short-term disability insurance
- Long-term disability insurance
- Teladoc
- 401(k) with 100% match up to 4% of salary
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Cell phone reimbursement
- Tuition reimbursement
- Calm app subscription
- MetLife Legal
- Commuter benefit of $300 per month
