Manager, Strategic Initiatives - Innovation

Crusoe · Data AI · Denver, CO - US · Strategic Initiatives

Manager on the Strategy team for an AI infrastructure company. Responsible for screening new opportunities, leading in-depth evaluations, and driving cross-functional work to bring strong concepts to life. This role owns initiatives end-to-end, presents findings directly to the C-suite, and shapes company investments. Blends strategic analysis with operational execution, requiring comfort with financial modeling and leading cross-functional groups. Requires staying current on market trends and emerging technologies in the AI infrastructure landscape.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead initial strategic fit assessments for new opportunities, determining whether they warrant deeper investment of team time and resources.
  2. Own full evaluation cycles for assigned initiatives: market sizing, financial modeling, competitive landscape analysis, risk assessment, and strategic fit.
  3. Lead cross-functional working groups to develop concepts that require input and coordination across multiple business units. Drive the process from early scoping through executive decision and integration.
  4. Stay current on market trends, emerging technologies, competitive dynamics, and developments in the AI infrastructure landscape to ensure the team’s evaluations are grounded in the latest context.
  5. Proactively surface opportunities and risks based on your market awareness, not just evaluate what comes inbound.

Skills

Required

  • Management consulting
  • Corporate development
  • Venture capital
  • Strategy at a high-growth technology or infrastructure company
  • Executive-level written deliverables
  • Investment memos
  • Board materials
  • Strategic recommendations with financial backing
  • Independently owning complex, multi-stakeholder analytical projects
  • Financial modeling
  • Market sizing
  • Competitive landscape analysis
  • Risk assessment
  • Strategic fit analysis

Nice to have

  • Cross-functional leadership
  • Organizational navigation
  • Relationship management
  • Market intelligence
  • Emerging technologies
  • AI infrastructure landscape

What the JD emphasized

  • own initiatives end-to-end
  • shape where this company invests its capital and attention
  • Turn ambiguity into conviction
  • produce clear, defensible recommendations that the most senior people at Crusoe can act on
  • pulling on domain expertise from business units, R&D, corporate functions, and external experts then synthesizing it into a point of view that enables quality decisions and thoughtful risk management
  • blends strategic analysis with operational execution
  • comfortable building a financial model and running a kickoff meeting
  • develop a thematic specialization
  • operate across the full Crusoe stack and maintain fluency in all of it
  • Produce written recommendations with clear reasoning for advancing or declining opportunities.
  • Build and maintain the institutional record of evaluated opportunities so that Crusoe learns from every decision.
  • Own full evaluation cycles for assigned initiatives: market sizing, financial modeling, competitive landscape analysis, risk assessment, and strategic fit.
  • Lead cross-functional working groups to develop concepts that require input and coordination across multiple business units. Drive the process from early scoping through executive decision and integration.
  • Produce robust, fact-based whitepapers that stand on their own as decision documents for senior leadership.
  • Coordinate with executive sponsors and pull structured inputs from teams across the organization without creating deliverable burden on those teams.
  • Build strong, trust-based relationships across Crusoe’s divisions — engineering, manufacturing, infrastructure, product, energy, finance, and corporate development — so that you know who to ask what question and have the credibility to get high engagement when you do.
  • Invest in understanding each team’s priorities, constraints, and expertise so that your outreach adds value rather than creating work.
  • Socialize strategic concepts with Directors and VPs across business units, building organizational context and alignment ahead of executive decisions.
  • Stay current on market trends, emerging technologies, competitive dynamics, and developments in the AI infrastructure landscape to ensure the team’s evaluations are grounded in the latest context.
  • Proactively surface opportunities and risks based on your market awareness, not just evaluate what comes inbound.
  • Drive strategic insights and develop theories of investment (internal and external) by translating Crusoe’s strategy into operational deliverables.
  • 5–8 years of experience in management consulting, corporate development, venture capital, or strategy at a high-growth technology or infrastructure company.
  • Demonstrated experience producing executive-level written deliverables: investment memos, board materials, strategic recommendations with financial backing.
  • Track record of independently owning complex, multi-stakeholder analytical projects with senior leadersh