Director, Finance - Real Estate Finance

Role description

Role Overview

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. 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.

What You Will Do

Lead financial due diligence on prospective land acquisitions, ground leases, and site control agreements — evaluating cost basis, tax implications, entitlement risk, and site-level economics. Build site-level financial models (acquisition cost, ground lease economics, property tax, incentive/abatement value) to support go/no-go TCO investment decisions.

Why It Might Be a Fit

We're looking for a Director of Real Estate, Land & Leases Finance to own the financial due diligence, commercial structuring, and lifecycle management of land and real estate transactions underpinning Crusoe's data center campuses.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in real estate finance, land acquisition, project finance, or corporate development, ideally within data centers, energy, industrial, or infrastructure sectors.
• Demonstrated experience leading financial due diligence on land or real estate transactions, including modeling acquisition and lease economics.
• Working knowledge of ground leases, purchase options, easements, and real estate/economic development incentive structures (tax abatements, PILOTs).
• Understanding of how real estate/land structures interact with project financing (debt sizing, financeability, credit requirements) — ability to partner effectively with capital markets and structured finance teams.
• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills; comfort building models from scratch under time pressure.
• Experience managing a portfolio of assets over a multi-year lifecycle, not just single-transaction execution.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and negotiation skills; able to work directly with Legal, Development, and external counterparties (landowners, utilities, municipalities).
• Bachelor's degree required; MBA, JD, or equivalent a plus.

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