Principal Organizational Development Strategist

Job Description

Job Description

Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence . As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads. When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster.

We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck. We're solving that — with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI.

We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services.

If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe.

About the Role:

Help design a company while it's being built

Most OD roles ask you to tune an organization that already works. This one asks you to help shape one that's growing faster than any playbook can keep up with.

Crusoe is the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company. We own and operate every layer, from electrons to tokens: power generation, data center construction, hardware manufacturing and the cloud platform behind some of the world's most ambitious AI workloads. We’re growing fast.

That makes for one of the most interesting OD problems in tech. Electricians and construction managers building data centers, technicians on manufacturing floors, energy developers, and cloud engineers all have to work as one company. They need clear decision rights, well-designed teams, strong leaders, and a culture that holds up at this speed.

As Crusoe's senior OD advisor, you'll work directly with our executive teams on how the company is structured, how decisions get made, and how teams work together as we scale. This is a principal-level individual contributor role with real executive access.

What You'll Be Working On:

• Org design and effectiveness

  • Find where the organization gets in its own way: unclear decision rights, overlapping roles, handoffs between teams that break down, and operating models that worked at 500 people but fail at 3,000.

  • Lead design work across engineering, data center operations, manufacturing and corporate teams, including role clarity, team operating models, spans and layers, and decision-making frameworks.

• Executive and team effectiveness

  • Design and facilitate executive team offsites, leadership alignment sessions and team effectiveness work.

  • Act as a candid, trusted thinking partner for senior leaders on org health, team dynamics and leadership challenges.

  • Step in when teams are stuck, whether from friction between functions, a new leader taking over, or two groups that need to start working as one.

• Insight into action as an embedded multiplier and capability builder who will co-create solutions while simultaneously lifting the OD fluency and systems-thinking capability of the broader People team.

  • Work with People Analytics to turn engagement, talent review and operational data into clear findings, then lead executive debriefs and team action plans.

  • Work with Performance & Talent Management to turn succession and talent review results into targeted development plans and capability building.

  • Capability Building & Mentorship: Act as an internal advisor and coach to PSPs and L&D specialists, elevating their mastery of systems thinking, organizational diagnostics, change governance, and root-cause analysis.

  • Collaborative Content Architecture: Co-author high-impact leadership and team development content with L&D, infusing behavioral science, organizational psychology, and holistic systems dynamics into practical learning journeys.

  • Consulting Leverage: Help PSPs move from transactional issue resolution to systemic consulting, co-facilitating complex diagnostic and design sessions to model OD practices in action.

• Scalable OD systems and manager tools

  • Build repeatable frameworks and playbooks for org design, decision rights and team launches, so solutions grow with Crusoe instead of being rebuilt each time.

  • Create lightweight leadership & manager toolkits for setting expectations, differentiating performance, giving feedback and building psychological safety. They need to be able to work for a manufacturing site supervisor in Brighton as well as an engineering manager in San Francisco.

What You'll Bring to the Team:

• 12+ years in organizational development, talent, I-O psychology or management consulting, including work with technical, industrial or high-growth organizations.

• A track record of diagnosing org friction and redesigning structures, decision rights or operating models without an established playbook.

• Executive credibility. You've advised C-suite leaders, you can tell them what they don't want to hear, and they ask you back.

• Change leadership. You've guided organizations through restructures, integrations or major transformations, and the changes held.

• Fluency with people data. You turn engagement results, talent reviews and operational metrics into a clear story and a concrete plan.

• Range. You can run an exec-team offsite in the morning and build a manager toolkit in the afternoon.

• Judgment and discretion in confidential restructuring and leadership situations.

Bonus Points

• A master's or PhD in I-O psychology, organizational development or a related field.

• Certification in org design, change management (e.g., Prosci), assessments (e.g., Hogan, Leadership Circle, Birkman) or executive coaching.

• Experience designing organizations through hypergrowth, M&A or the launch of new business lines.

• Experience with frontline, hourly, field-based, construction or manufacturing workforces.

• Curiosity about energy, hardware and the physical infrastructure behind AI.

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation and equity packages

• Restricted Stock Units

• Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs

• Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance

• Employer contributions to HSA account

• Paid parental leave

• Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability

• Professional development & tuition reimbursement

• Mental health & wellness support

• Commuter benefits (parking & transit)

• Cell phone stipend

• 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary

• Volunteer time off

• Global travel insurance & emergency assistance

• Daily meals allowance

• Additional perks & programs specific to location

Compensation Range

Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $195,000 - $230,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant's knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

Crusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.