About This Role
Recruiting executive talent for a newly formed, rapidly scaling AI infrastructure company is the core of this role. You will be instrumental in building the leadership team, focusing on C-suite, VP, and senior director-level positions across all functions. This position suits a seasoned executive recruiter who thrives in fast-paced, high-growth environments and has a proven track record of attracting world-class talent to technology companies.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end executive search processes for C-suite, VP, and senior director-level positions across all functions
- Leverage extensive candidate networks within the cloud computing, AI infrastructure, semiconductor, and hyperscale data center industries
- Develop and execute comprehensive search strategies for critical leadership roles including Engineering, SRE/Infrastructure, Data Center Development & Operations
- Own leadership hiring for Crux AI's data center development build-out — sourcing and closing the operators, builders, and energy leads who will stand up and run our facilities
- Partner closely with our CEO, board members, and existing executives to define role requirements and ideal candidate profiles
- Proactively build relationships with top-tier executive talent through industry events, conferences, and strategic networking
- Manage sophisticated interview processes involving multiple stakeholders and assessment methodologies
- Ensure exceptional candidate experience that reflects Crux AI's values and competitive positioning in the market
- Develop compelling value propositions for executive candidates weighing a newly formed venture against more established alternatives
Important Details
- Signals of success after 60 days: Fully ramped on Crux AI's mandate, org structure, and the Blackstone/Google partnership narrative; can represent it credibly and independently to skeptical senior candidates; owns an active slate of 3–5 executive searches, each with a defined search strategy and aligned stakeholders; has built working relationships with the CEO and key executives around role requirements and candidate profiles
- Signals of success after 6 months: Has closed at least 2–4 executive hires at VP-level or above; established a repeatable process for high-priority leadership searches — sourcing channel maps, assessment loop templates, stakeholder cadences; built a warm, mapped pipeline of passive executive candidates across target functions and industries
- Signals of success after 1 year: Has meaningfully shaped Crux AI's leadership bench, with multiple C-suite/VP hires directly attributable to their search leadership; recognized internally as the go-to owner for confidential
About the Company
Crux AI is a newly formed, U.S.-based integrated AI infrastructure company created to remove the physical and operational constraints on consequential AI ambitions. Crux brings together power, high-density data centers, TPU silicon, networking, orchestration software, and ongoing operations as one integrated system. Crux is being capitalized to plan every layer together, develop each one to demanding standards, and operate the whole system with efficiency and reliability. This gives hyperscalers, frontier AI labs, sovereign customers, enterprises, and AI-native companies greater freedom to pursue the AI they are here to create.
